Open Access
I'm delighted to be able to announce the launch of an open access project called the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). My colleague at Lincoln Dr Martin Paul Eve and I are the Academic Project Directors of this initiative, which will establish a journal and database for the humanities and social sciences, in the style of the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
Since launching our second website on 22nd January 2013, we've received an overwhelming amount of support and media coverage. The Library Journal ran 2 articles on the OLH (a Q&A with Martin Paul Eve and a follow-up news item), the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article on us, the LSE Impact Blog published an article by Martin on the OLH, and the Times Higher Education featured the OLH in their cover story on Gold Open Access publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
Please do check out the website and contact us if you'd like to get involved in any capacity.
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Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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