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Not to be confused with Open Humanities Press.
"OLH" redirects here. For other uses, see OLH (disambiguation).

The Open Library of Humanities is a nonprofit, diamond open access publisher in the humanities and social sciences[1] founded by Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards.[2] Founded in 2015, OLH publishes 27 scholarly journals as of 2022,[3] including a mega journal, also called Open Library of Humanities, which was modeled on PLOS but not affiliated with it.[4]

History

The Open Library of Humanities was officially launched on 28 September 2015.[5] The project was funded by core grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation[6][7] and uses a library partnership subsidy model to cover costs.[8] It has a number of advisory committees, such as the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee which includes PLOS co-founder Michael Eisen,[1] Quebec-based academic Jean-Claude Guédon, and the Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, Kathleen Fitzpatrick.[9] An internationalization committee was formed in 2013 to develop an international strategy.[10] 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.[11]

Although originally intended to run on Open Journal Systems,[12] in 2017 OLH started development of a new platform, Janeway.[13] Initially the main press site and the journal Orbit[14] were hosted on the new platform. In of March 2022 the project to migrate the remaining jouranls was completed.[15] 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.[16] In November 2013 it was announced that the Public Knowledge Project will be funding the development of the typesetter, known as meTypeset.[17]

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.[18] In 2021, OLH became part of Birkbeck, University of London, maintaining its nonprofit status while reducing overhead.[19]

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
  • 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

  1. ^ a b Howard, Jennifer (29 January 2013). "Project Aims to Bring PLOS-Style Openness to the Humanities". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  2. ^ 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 Archived 2015-12-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ "Journals". Open Library of Humanities. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  4. ^ "About". Open Library of Humanities. 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  5. ^ "OLH Launches". Open Library of Humanities.
  6. ^ "Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation". Open Library of Humanities. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Birkbeck awarded $741,000 grant for new humanities open-access model of publishing".
  8. ^ "Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference Report". Jisc Collections and OAPEN. 2013. p. 10. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  9. ^ "Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee". Open Library of Humanities. 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  10. ^ Schwartz, Meredith (14 February 2013). "Open Library of Humanities Begins Infrastructure Phase". Library Journal. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  11. ^ Osorio, Francisco (5 April 2013). "Open Library of Humanities: mega journals seeing from the south". Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  12. ^ "Roadmap for Technical Pilot". Open Library of Humanities. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  13. ^ "Introducing Janeway – the new open source publishing software from Birkbeck". Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  14. ^ "News - Orbit Migrates to Janeway". orbit.openlibhums.org. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  15. ^ "Migration of OLH journals to Janeway completed". orbit.openlibhums.org. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  16. ^ "Funding Opportunity in MSc Computer Science by Research". University of Lincoln. 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  17. ^ "PKP supporting OLH development of in-house typesetter". Public Knowledge Project. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  18. ^ "Open Library of Humanities".
  19. ^ "The Open Library of Humanities merges with Birkbeck". Birkbeck, University of London. 2021-05-01. Retrieved 2022-06-15.

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Library_of_Humanities