Lots in this -- worth a read! 'People don't want to be isolated, competing with each other as their condition of existence. And so, I think this transition is a moment for us to reflect on the fact that we don't have to just accept these legacy systems that exploit our labour.' #AcademicPublishing

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 2w ago

OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/

"This transition is a moment for us to reflect on the fact that we don't have to just accept these legacy systems that exploit our labour." Read OLH’s latest interview with the editors of SNL about their transition to open access and what it means for the future of scholarly publishing.

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 2w ago

OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/

The first issue of The Hythe Review is here! Published by the Open Library of Humanities in partnership with the87press, it brings together poetry, essays and an interview exploring modernism, anti-colonialism, translation, and migration. Read more:

The Hythe Review first issue with OLH

We are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the …

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"It is difficult to justify spending millions on commercial publishing contracts while universities continue to cut staff and teaching." Read OLH's latest blog on why it's time to redirect money away from commercial publishing and towards community-owned, not-for-profit infrastructure.

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · last mo.

1/5 🧵 🔈 A Call to Libraries: Redirect Funding, Rebuild Scholarly Publishing As some research funders move away from funding APCs and hybrid publishing, now is the time to invest in community-owned academic publishing. 🔗 Read our latest blog post: www.openlibhums.org/news/972/

Now that’s what people power stopping hate and bringing hope looks like! ✨🌈 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/30/durham-pride-trade-unions-beat-reform-funding-axe

‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners

Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money

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Another one bites the dust. Please share among your networks. This movement is growing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 2mo ago

BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH. www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH. www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from <em>Natural Language Semantics</em>

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …

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Make Hate Weird Again.

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press

The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

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I've been writing my inaugural lecture this week - lots of weirdness about woods, rocks, mycelium, intimate cross-species relations & some quite personal bits about my childhood. Goodness! Still time to grab a ticket for Tues 14 April (in-person or live-streaming): www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

New OLH poster drop and accompanying piece by Dr Paula Clemente Vega: “If scholarly publishing is a site of struggle, the question is no longer whether change is needed, but whether we are prepared to redistribute power and resources to make knowledge truly free.”

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 4mo ago

New OLH poster!🔥 OLH reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly publishing as a call to action: divest from commercial publishers & support diamond open access. Join the fight for free knowledge. Download the poster & learn more: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/ #UKSG2026 #diamondOA #AcademicPublishing

I wrote the blog post behind our new Robin Hood @openlibhums.org poster! In it, I reflect on why divesting scholarly publishing from commercial interests and redirecting library budgets into #diamondOA is so urgent. Read it (and grab the poster!) here: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/ #UKSG2026

Brilliant new OLH post: “Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers“ by anon - a sharp take on why we need “scholarly infrastructure that is interoperable, collectively governed, and not permanently rented back to the academy“.

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 4mo ago

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump

The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories

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Friends! Please join me in London or online for my inaugural lecture in April. There will be wine and nibbles! You can heckle me from the back row! I've already promised some raunchy Zed from Zardoz references - other indecent shout-out requests may be considered. Booking via QR code.

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

New ISSUE out! Theory and Social Inquiry, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2025) is now available: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1815/i...

🎄 Day 12 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the twelfth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us twelve sleepy humans, who are back at work doing it all again. Meet our team:

Our team - Open Library of Humanities

We are based at Birkbeck, University of London, but make up a geographically distributed network of expert bookworms, specialist software developers, and typography enthusiasts.

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I wrote an author's note on my book for the energy humanities website, do check it out: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/the-non...

Energy Humanities News | The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multispecies Encounters in Extraction

In this Author’s Note, Josephine Taylor outlines the intellectual and ethical foundations of her recent book, The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy, tracing how animal life has been rendered absent within...

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Philosophical Logic has joined the OLH! Read their open letter on mass editorial resignation and the push to make academic research “as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large”.

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 8mo ago

We’re excited to announce the launch of Philosophical Logic at the Open Library of Humanities. This follows another mass editorial resignation at Springer Nature (open letter linked in the announcement). Read more:

We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Open Journals Collective@ojcollective.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links: openjournalscollective.org/static/engag... openjournalscollective.org/static/opera... Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!

Just disgusting to see these unelected, extremely wealthy, pompous relics voting against working class people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Out of touch’ peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights

Trade union leaders and senior Labour figures say the Lords looks ‘undemocratic and firmly against the interest of working people’

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Although I'm horrified to see a massive landscape picture of my head here, this is a really important piece about the maturation of scholar-led, non-profit publishing. As I write, chaos is coming but there are enormous opportunities to quit the big 5 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

If you'd like to catch up with the @oaaustralasia.bsky.social #OpenAccessWeek event on Community Ownership the recording is now available: youtu.be/bdNdkWG-uCg?... I was honoured to speak alongside Dr. Kiri West (Māori Data Sovereignty Network) & Dr. Alice McSherry (Waiheke Marine Project).

Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility

YouTube video by Open Access Australasia

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It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️ Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access! The zombie poster is back! #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly ...

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Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 11mo ago

Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.

The Energy Humanities editorial team is thrilled to be part of what OLH is doing!

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 10mo ago

🍂 Our Autumn Newsletter is OUT! Catch up on the latest updates including our Annual Report 24/25, new journals, latest supporters, CFP Janeway Conference, tech updates, and more: mailchi.mp/openlibhums/... #OAweek / @janewayolh.bsky.social

We’ve just released our 2024–2025 Annual Report! Lots of exciting updates and highlights inside — take a look 👇

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 10mo ago

📣 🎉 Our annual report 2024–2025 is OUT! It showcases collaborations, journal flips, latest dev work from @janewayolh.bsky.social, new staff and more. Library memberships grew by 25%, an incredible achievement at such a difficult time for higher education! 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/865/