Open Library of Humanities
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| parent =Birkbeck, University of London
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| founded = 2015
| founders = Martin Paul Eve, Caroline Edwards
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| country = United Kingdom
| headquarters = London, England
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| publications = Academic journals
| topics = Humanities
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| url = {{URL|https://www.openlibhums.org|openlibhums.org}}
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The Open Library of Humanities is a nonprofit, diamond open access publisher in the humanities and social sciences{{cite web|last=Howard|first=Jennifer|title=Project Aims to Bring PLOS-Style Openness to the Humanities|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Project-Aims-to-Bring/136889/|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=19 November 2013|date=29 January 2013}} founded by Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards.Adeline Koh, 'Mellon Funding for the Open Library of the Humanities', The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 18, 2014, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/mellon-funding-for-the-open-library-of-the-humanities/56649 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216055903/http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/mellon-funding-for-the-open-library-of-the-humanities/56649 |date=2015-12-16 }}. Founded in 2015, OLH published 27 scholarly journals as of 2022,{{Cite web |title=Journals |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/journals/ |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Open Library of Humanities}} and as of 2025 lists 33 journals,{{Cite web |title=Open Library of Humanities |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/journals/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Open Library of Humanities |language=en-GB}} including a mega journal, also called Open Library of Humanities, which was modeled on PLOS but not affiliated with it.{{cite web |year=2013 |title=About |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/about/ |access-date=19 November 2013 |work=Open Library of Humanities |archive-date=31 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031060342/https://www.openlibhums.org/about/ |url-status=dead }}
History
The Open Library of Humanities was officially launched on 28 September 2015.{{cite web |title=OLH Launches |url=https://about.openlibhums.org/2015/09/28/olh-launches/ |work=Open Library of Humanities}} The project was funded by core grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation{{cite web |title=Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/2014/04/07/funding-from-the-andrew-w-mellon-foundation/ |work=Open Library of Humanities |access-date=7 April 2014 |date=7 April 2014 |archive-date=8 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224430/https://www.openlibhums.org/2014/04/07/funding-from-the-andrew-w-mellon-foundation/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-awarded-741-000-grant-for-new-humanities-open-access-model-of-publishing |title=Birkbeck awarded $741,000 grant for new humanities open-access model of publishing }} and uses a library partnership subsidy model to cover costs.{{cite web |title=Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference Report |url=https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Reports/oabooksreport/ |publisher=Jisc Collections and OAPEN |access-date=19 November 2013 |page=10 |year=2013 |archive-date=9 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409015314/https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Documents/Reports/OA%20Monographs%20in%20HSS%20Conference%20Report%20Oct%202013.pdf |url-status=dead }} It has a number of advisory committees, such as the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee which includes PLOS co-founder Michael Eisen, Quebec-based academic Jean-Claude Guédon, and the Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, Kathleen Fitzpatrick.{{cite web|title=Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee|url=https://www.openlibhums.org/committees/academic-steering-advocacy-committee/|work=Open Library of Humanities|access-date=19 November 2013|year=2013|archive-date=31 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031045237/https://www.openlibhums.org/committees/academic-steering-advocacy-committee/|url-status=dead}} An internationalization committee was formed in 2013 to develop an international strategy.{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Meredith |title=Open Library of Humanities Begins Infrastructure Phase |url=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/02/oa/open-library-of-humanities-begins-infrastructure-phase/ |work=Library Journal |access-date=19 November 2013 |date=14 February 2013 |archive-date=25 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025104752/http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/02/oa/open-library-of-humanities-begins-infrastructure-phase/ |url-status=dead }} A member of this committee, Francisco Osorio, has written that the open access model of the Open Library of Humanities may be beneficial for researchers publishing in languages other than English.{{cite web |last=Osorio|first=Francisco |title=Open Library of Humanities: mega journals seeing from the south |url=http://www.facso.uchile.cl/noticias/90036/open-library-of-humanities-mega-journals-seeing-from-the-south |work=Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile |access-date=19 November 2013 |date=5 April 2013}}
Although originally intended to run on Open Journal Systems,{{cite web |title=Roadmap for Technical Pilot |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/2013/05/15/roadmap-for-technical-pilot/ |work=Open Library of Humanities |access-date=19 November 2013 |date=15 May 2013 |archive-date=31 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031050444/https://www.openlibhums.org/2013/05/15/roadmap-for-technical-pilot/ |url-status=dead }} in 2017 OLH started development of a new platform, Janeway.{{Cite news |url=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/introducing-janeway-2013-the-new-open-source-publishing-software-from-birkbeck |title=Introducing Janeway – the new open source publishing software from Birkbeck |access-date=2018-02-22}} Initially the main press site and the journal Orbit{{Cite web |url=https://orbit.openlibhums.org/news/270/ |title=News - Orbit Migrates to Janeway |website=orbit.openlibhums.org |access-date=2018-02-22}} were hosted on the new platform. In of March 2022 the project to migrate the remaining journals was completed.{{Cite web |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/news/527/ |title=Migration of OLH journals to Janeway completed |website=orbit.openlibhums.org |access-date=2022-08-29}} The University of Lincoln, in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project, offered a funded place for an MSc by Research in Computer Science to develop an open-source XML typesetting tool as proposed by the Open Library of Humanities technical roadmap.{{cite web |title=Funding Opportunity in MSc Computer Science by Research |url=http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/cmsresms/fundedplace/ |work=University of Lincoln |access-date=19 November 2013 |year=2013}} In November 2013 it was announced that the Public Knowledge Project will be funding the development of the typesetter, known as meTypeset.{{cite web |title=PKP supporting OLH development of in-house typesetter |url=http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-supporting-olh-development-of-in-house-typesetter/ |work=Public Knowledge Project |access-date=21 November 2013 |date=20 November 2013}}
The Open Library of Humanities publishing model relies on support from an international group of libraries, which enables the publication of articles without the need for article processing charges.{{cite web |url=https://www.openlibhums.org/site/about/ |title=Open Library of Humanities }} In 2021, OLH became part of Birkbeck, University of London, maintaining its nonprofit status while reducing overhead.{{Cite web |date=2021-05-01 |title=The Open Library of Humanities merges with Birkbeck |url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/the-open-library-of-humanities-merges-with-birkbeck |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Birkbeck, University of London |language=en}}
Journals
- Open Library of Humanities
- 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
- ASIANetwork Exchange
- Architectural Histories
- Body, Space & Technology
- C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
- The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
- Digital Medievalist
- Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
- Ethnologia Europaea
- Francosphères
- Genealogy+Critique
- Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
- International Journal of Welsh Writing in English
- International Labour Review
- Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
- Journal of Embodied Research
- Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
- Laboratory Phonology
- Marvell Studies
- Open Screens
- Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
- Pynchon Notes
- Quaker Studies
- Studies in the Maternal
- Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal
- Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung
- The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies
References
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External links
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