Mellon Funding

Posted on Apr 7, 2014 in Publishing | 0 comments

I'm delighted to be able to announce that the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who have provided a substantial start-up grant to the University of Lincoln to build the technological platform, business model and prepare for launching both our megajournal and monograph pilot scheme. This is fantastic news and signals the significant international interest in the OLH.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a significant private US funding body that awards grants to higher education institutions to further scholarship, scholarly communications and information technology, art history and conservation, as well as promoting the performing arts. The OLH funding has been awarded within the Scholarly Communications and Information Technology programme. This is a fantastic achievement for everyone who has worked hard with us on building the OLH and signals the extensive international interest in this publishing project.

My OLH Co-Director Dr Martin Eve will be working on the technological platform and business model in preparation for the launch of the megajournal, as well as a monograph publishing pilot scheme with 3 internationally-renowned university presses and one born-digital open access publisher. We will both be travelling to various conferences, workshops and events to promote the OLH and to build up a network of participating libraries who can help us make open access publishing in the humanities sustainable, rigorous and digitally secure for the future.

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