On April 20, we held a 3-hour seminar at Birkbeck on “Close Reading + Digital Humanities: A Dialogue”. This event brought professors from UCL, Swansea University, and Birkbeck to the Keynes Library in the School of Arts building to discuss the convergence of old and new methods to approach text: the traditions of close […]
Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing is pleased to announce the open-source release of its software for academic publishing. “Janeway” is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that is free to download, use, and modify. Written in Django/Python from the ground up and still under active development, the software includes a submission […]
Call for Papers / Presentations No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised Practice TaPRA Performance & New Technologies Working Group Interim Event 20th April, Birkbeck College, University of London 21st April, London South Bank University (LSBU) Call deadline: 24 February Confirmed Keynote Speakers Prof. Matthew Causey (Trinity College) (20th April @ Birkbeck College) & Prof. […]
This symposium presents an opportunity to reflect upon several decades of major digitisation initiatives within UK cultural institutions. Motivated by the desire to improve public access and capitalise on the potential of new technologies, the mass digitisation of collections and archives in the UK has been one of the most significant contemporary changes to our […]
A member of the Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing has published an evaluation of offsetting agreements for UK open access across Jisc Collections’ deals for the 2015 period. Doctoral candidate Stuart Lawson, whose work on the economics of scholarly communications is well known, examined the five agreements that were in place throughout 2015: from […]
We are extremely pleased to announce that the Libraries of the seven Irish universities have joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The seven Irish universities consist of Dublin City University, Maynooth University, National University Ireland, Galway, Trinity College, Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin, and University of Limerick. With the […]
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to reveal the first of its software initiatives, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Birkbeck, University of London: Annotran. Developed by Dr Marija Katic and Professor Martin Paul Eve in the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, the tool […]
September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we’d share some statistics about the platform and its growth! Journals and Articles In the first year, the OLH has hosted 909 articles across the journals that we either directly publish or that we support. This […]
We are extremely pleased to announce that six journals are to join the Open Library of Humanities platform later this year. The voting process was highly competitive, with sixteen applications to join the platform in the Spring-Summer 2016 period. All applications were sent to leading external academic specialists in a rigorous process of double peer […]
OLH authors Stuart Lawson and Jonathan Gray have published an article in the Guardian about their research into the cost of open access publishing. The piece is based on the recent article, “Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing,” which was published on the Open […]
