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12 May 2026
The University of Essex joins the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaThe Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, the University of Essex. The University of Essex is committed to making change happen through research and education, and boasts a diverse global community of staff and students from more than 140 countries, an expa… -
12 May 2026
The University of Porto joins the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaThe Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Porto. With origins dating back to the 18th century, the University of Porto is a leading teaching and scientific research institution in Portugal and worldwide. It is the second largest Portuguese … -
6 May 2026
Janeway launches new website and brand identity
Posted by OLH JanewayWe are thrilled to announce the launch of Janeway’s newly redesigned website and brand identity, which you can explore here. Over the past two years, we’ve been rethinking how Janeway, our open-source publishing platform, presents itself online. We recognised that our digital presence needed to evo… -
13 April 2026
The Making of OLH's AI Policy
Posted by Dr Simon EverettIn January 2026, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) published the first iteration of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in response to the growing need for guidance on the use of generative AI in scholarly publishing. The journey to producing a workable policy for all our journals has been m… -
29 March 2026
Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 With this poster, the Open Library of Humanities reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly communications, not as a nost… -
26 March 2026
Ten Years of Glossa: A Decade of Diamond Open Access in Linguistics
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaToday we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of Humanities. It was one of our first journal flips in 2015, when OLH launched with just seven journals and 100 support…
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13 April 2026
The Making of OLH's AI Policy
Posted by Dr Simon EverettIn January 2026, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) published the first iteration of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in response to the growing need for guidance on the use of generative AI in scholarly publishing. The journey to producing a workable policy for all our journals has been m… -
29 March 2026
Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 With this poster, the Open Library of Humanities reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly communications, not as a nost… -
26 March 2026
THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
Posted by Posted by OLHTHE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911), attributed to Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich. Originally publis… -
16 March 2026
From User Stories to High-Quality Data: Implementing ROR on the Janeway Platform
Posted by Joe MullerJoe Muller, Senior Publishing Technologies Developer at the Open Library of Humanities, tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform uses ROR, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution wit… -
6 October 2025
Making Open Access Book publishing ‘Normal’
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaThe OLH Open Access Award 2024 Awardee Report, authored by Tom Morley, Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the Open Library of Humanities Open Access award to support our research culture activity relating to … -
23 September 2025
Interview with Dr Maddie Sinclair: A Journey into Open Access and Editorial Work at OLH
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaIn this interview, we speak with Dr Maddie Sinclair, Editorial Officer at the Open Library of Humanities, about her journey into scholarly publishing, her thoughts on open access, and the day-to-day realities of editorial work. What initially drew you to apply for a role at the Open Library of Hum…
News from our journals.
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19 May 2026<em>Semantics of Natural Languages</em> Open Letter
Posted by The Editors, Semantics of Natural LanguagesWe, the editors and former editors of Natural Language Semantics, are thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL), a new diamond open access journal. SNL is the scholar-owned and scholar-led intellectual successor to Natural Language Semantics. It is published with Open … -
5 May 2026<em>Medieval Sermon Studies</em> joins the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Maddie SinclairWelcome to the new website of Medieval Sermon Studies! After several years with Taylor & Francis, MSS will, from the 2027 issue onwards, be published by the Open Library of Humanities. This means that the journal is now officially a Diamond Open Access publication, free for readers and for auth… -
28 April 2026<em>The Hythe Review</em> Inaugural Statement
Posted by The Editors, The Hythe ReviewThe87press welcomes you to The Hythe Review which was launched as part of our commitment to widening critical conversations in literature, and poetry more specifically. We are deeply concerned by and mindful of the decline of literary studies in the Global North and the increasing insularity of Eng… -
30 March 2026Editorial for the March 2026 issue
Posted by Arthur C. PetersenThis issue [click here to browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $9.99 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, BE, IE, JP, … -
18 March 2026
Call for Papers: Special Issue: Contemporary Ekphrasis in British and Irish Innovative Poetry
Posted by Colin HerdEkphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the effica… -
9 February 2026
Call for book review essays - book list
Posted by Katie da Cunha LewinC21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and media studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. We invite prospective authors to submit…
