Announcements & blog.

We are pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture, published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).  Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, double anonymous peer-rev…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Hollins University. Hollins University offers rigorous liberal arts education for undergraduate students from its 475-acre campus in Virginia’s beautiful Roanoke Valley. Founded in 1842, Hollins was one of the earlie…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' editorial teams. You can read the policy here. The policy details the OLH's stance that responsible and…

The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available to CHASE-funded researchers at CHASE institutions. The position is fully set up for remote working, and applicatio…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2026, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. The Open …

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam. As one of the Netherlands’ leading public research universities, Erasmus University Rotterdam traces its roots back to 1913, when the Netherlands School of Commerce (Nederlandsche Handel…

C21 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…

  In this Editorial for the December 2025 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, F…

From October until December 2025 C21 Literature hosted an Open Access Academic Publishing and Academic Communication intern through the StARIS programme at St Andrews University. Our intern, Ines Tramarin, worked on various aspects of our social media strategy. As she's concluded her time with us n…

Editorial processes have been resumed at our editorial HQ and Volume 16 (2026) will be published on a rolling basis as soon as articles become ready. Volume 16 can be found at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/.https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/. As you know, the Special Collectio…

Free & Equal is proud to report on our record of acceptances and turnaround time for our first year of operation. The data below refers to submissions received during the twelve-month period from September 13, 2024 (the date our journal opened) to September 13, 2025.    Article submissions: 388…

Dear colleagues, Season's greetings! It's that time of the year again. We have wrapped up The Comics Grid's 15th volume, corresponding to 2025.This past year was, once again, an exceptionally active one. The Times They Are a-Changin' We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to all collea…