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The OLH publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal. Launched as an international network of scholars, librarians, programmers and publishers in January 2013, the OLH has received two substantial grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to date, and has built a sustainable business model with its partner libraries.
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The OLH recognises that the economics of the humanities are different. The majority of research in the humanities remains unfunded except through institutional time. For this reason, Article Processing Charges are not a palatable option for these disciplines. We are funded instead through a model of Library Partnership Subsidies to collectively fund the venue and its array of journals. A large number of libraries and institutions worldwide already support us, which makes for a sustainable, safe platform.
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
A peer-reviewed publication, catering primarily to faculty appointed in liberal arts institutions with programs in Asian Studies [by Open Library of Humanities (OLH)]
Glossa is dedicated to general linguistics. It publishes contributions from all areas of linguistics, provided they contain theoretical implications that shed light on the nature of language and the language faculty. Contributions should be of interest to all linguists, independently of their own specialisation (publ. by Open Library of Humanities/ OLH)
The Journal of Portuguese Linguistics is concerned with all branches of linguistics and aims at publishing high-quality papers in the field of Portuguese linguistics, including the comparison between any varieties of Portuguese and any other language(s). Contributions are welcome from linguists in all countries, and from different linguistic theories and frameworks, including theoretically oriented work, comparative work, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary contributions. Papers are selected for publication solely on the basis of scientific quality. The language of publication is English (publ. by Open Library of Humanities/ OLH)
The journal Laboratory Phonology is the official journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. It publishes reports on the scientific study of all phonological / phonetic aspects of spoken and signed language through scholarly exchange across disciplines, including all domains of linguistics (phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics) as well as from related disciplines, including psychology, speech & hearing science, communication science, computer science, electrical & computer engineering, and other related fields (publ. by Open Library of Humanities/ OLH)
This journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines (by OLH)
A peer-reviewed, Open Access journal of contemporary American fiction from the second half of the twentieth century to the present by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
This journal’s purpose is to make original, media-specific contributions to the field of comics scholarship (by the Open Library of Humanities/ OLH)