Dalhousie is now among the supporting institutions of Open Library of the Humanities (OLH). OLH is an organization that receives funding from libraries across the globe and is dedicated to “publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs).”

The international consortium of libraries that support OLH aims to make scholarly publishing “fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.” The OLH publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, and they host their own multidisciplinary journal. Their academic articles are “subject to rigorous peer review and the scholarship they publish showcases some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.”

With Dalhousie joining this growing number of libraries from around the world supporting the OLH, we are contributing to the global effort to increase open access in the humanities. As part of Open Access Week, we wanted to acknowledge the work being done by OLH and to spread awareness of their mission to “support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities – for free, for everyone, for ever.”