Open Library of Humanities

Not to be confused with Open Humanities Press.
"OLH" redirects here. For other uses, see OLH (disambiguation).
Open Library of Humanities
Parent companyBirkbeck, University of London
StatusNonprofit
Founded2015
FoundersMartin Paul Eve, Caroline Edwards
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon, England
Publication typesAcademic journals
Nonfiction topicsHumanities
Official websiteopenlibhums.org

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

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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

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  • 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

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  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. Archived from the original on 31 October 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. Archived from the original on 8 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" (PDF). Jisc Collections and OAPEN. 2013. p. 10. Archived from the original on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  9. ^ "Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee". Open Library of Humanities. 2013. Archived from the original on 31 October 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. Archived from the original on 31 October 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.
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