Announcements & blog.

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). Founded in 1996 and based in Berlin, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research is a humanities institute for literary studies in interdisciplinary …

You can now watch the recording of the panel discussion hosted by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) during Open Access Week 2025. Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt0mrhZw4  In this webinar, leaders from across the diamond open access community discuss how we can move beyon…

It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the Open Library of Humanities Journal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself. We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, diamond open access publishing, sustained by our in…

We're delighted to be publishing our 2024-25 annual report, which outlines the fantastic successes of the entire OLH team over the past financial year from 01 August 2024 to 31 July 2025. In this comprehensive report, you can find out what makes the OLH such a special organisation as well as a lead…

Date:  Friday 24 October 2025  Time:  1:00 – 2:30 pm BST | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CET. Check your time zone here.  Registration:  Free. Please register here.  Reflecting on this year’s Open Access Week theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge? the Open Library of Humanities has invited key voices from the diamon…

Theme: Users and Community Location: Dublin City University Library, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin, & hybrid streaming online Dates: 21st – 22nd May 2026 Cost: Free Sign-up to attend Janeway is an open-source scholarly publishing platform that has become the software of choice for editors, librarian…

During their shared time as doctoral candidates at the University of St Andrews, Dr Dong Xia and Dr Sandro Eich came up with the idea of a collection of essays on the relationship between digital media and contemporary fiction, and proposed a special issue of C21 Literature in 2023. Two years and t…

In this Editorial for the September 2025 issue [click here browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $9.82 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR, E…

F&E is pleased to announce that Ryan Pevnick's 2025 article in our journal, 'The Representation-Enabling Approach to Campaign Finance Reform,' was awarded the 2025 Elizabeth D. Rockwell Prize for Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public Policy by the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the …

BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in collaboration with the Modernist Studies Association. The proposed panels would sit under the combined …

Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the time, the methods of fiction, and the reader.” He suggested that such works help readers challenge th…

Over the last decade, concrete and visual poetries have enjoyed a renaissance of critical attention and creative activity, in Britain and Ireland and internationally. Over this period, new creative, critical, and socio-political contexts have emerged for the study and practice of concrete and visua…