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Huge thanks for all the support since I started working at OLH in 2018 — already! Here’s to advancing diamond open access together 💜

Really happy to be able to announce this promotion news! @paulaclemente.bsky.social is such an asset to @openlibhums.bsky.social 💜

Congratulations to Dr Paula Clemente Vega, who becomes Community Outreach Manager Congratulations to our very own Dr Paula Clemente Vega, who has been promoted to OLH Community Outreach Manager! Paula started working at OLH in 2018 and has built a successful …

More good news to share with OLH supporters this week. Our colleague Dr Paula Clemente Vega has been promoted to OLH Community Outreach Manager. Congratulations @paulaclemente.bsky.social who works so hard to engage our library community! 👏 👏 👏 www.openlibhums.org/news/841/ #openaccess

Editors' Introduction

We’re proud to publish the inaugural issue of Theory & Social Inquiry— now fully scholar-led, #DiamondOA, and free from commercial control.

Read the introduction by editors Greta R. Krippner and Monica Prasad to learn why this matters: doi.org/10.16995/tsi...

An Epistemic Role for Opinion Journalism According to the informational model, journalism’s primary function is to provide the public with information and help it acquire knowledge and understanding. Opinion journalism appears to conflict wi...

New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social > "An Epistemic Role for Opinion Journalism" by Zeynep Soysal: doi.org/10.16995/pp....

Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling In the recent debates on so-called 'post-truth politics,' Hannah Arendt's essay "Truth and Politics" is a constant reference point. Indeed, it is one of the few texts within political philosophy and p...

New in Genealogy+Critique: Gerald Posselt’s “Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling”
Read it here: doi.org/10.16995/gc....

Cover of Open Screens journal featuring the “Students on Screen Special Issue” badge over a black-and-white image of two people sitting in a cinema

New Open Screens Special Issue: Students on Screen, guest-edited by Kay Calver & Bethan Michael-Fox.

From The Chair to Top Boy, dark academia, student mental health and more, exploring how students are represented across media.

🔗 Read now: www.openscreensjournal.com/issue/881/info

Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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Image of a text: a screenshot of a list of journal published articles at Architectural Histories

Explore #ArchitecturalHistories' latest publications: journal.eahn.org/art...

Just incredible work by Wiley here, destroying a prestigious property in a flourish of greed and power.

Editors' Introduction

Fantastic to see the 1st issue of Theory & Social Inquiry by @openlibhums.bsky.social. As Krippner & Prasad write, we must "carve out & maintain a space for social scientific & intellectual autonomy" when publishers capitulate to commercial pressures: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/article/id/1...

You can access the full issue here: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...

Carving out a space for intellectual autonomy in dangerous times: Theory and Social Inquiry launches at the Open Library of Humanities We're thrilled to announce the launch issue of Theory and Social Inquiry has been published at the Open Library of Humanities. As we reported in May 2024, Theory and Social …

The first issue of Theory & Social Inquiry is out via @openlibhums.bsky.social! Successor to Springer’s Theory & Society, the journal is now #DiamondOA / no APCs, no paywalls. Scholar-led & free from commercialisation, at a time when academic freedom needs defending: www.openlibhums.org/news/844/

The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's <em>The Nature Book </em>(2023) This essay offers an introduction to the work of Tom Comitta and a reading of their 2023 novel, The Nature Book, a citational fiction composed entirely of nature descriptions copied from other novels....

New publication in @c21literature.bsky.social > “The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book (2023)” by Michael Kalisch. Read it here: doi.org/10.16995/c21...

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous "The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

Over a year ago, the editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Wiley) resigned in protest. They launched Political Philosophy, a non-profit, #diamondOA journal now published by OLH. The Wiley journal is now ending.

Another reason to ask your institution to support OLH

The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.

This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.

Collective Self-Determination and International Authority in Climate Governance This article investigates how future climate governance might be made legitimate and compatible with collective self-determination. I develop an original account of international legitimacy through a...

New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social > “Collective Self-Determination and International Authority in Climate Governance” by Anna Stilz: doi.org/10.16995/pp....

Latest article up in the @c21literature.bsky.social Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring–Summer 2025) issue is Kathryn Hume on Ben Aaronovitch's _Rivers of London_: 'Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach' c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/9... ✨✨✨

Image of a text: a screenshot of a list of journal published articles at Open Screens

Two new articles out in Open Screens, the #openaccess journal of BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies). Read them here: www.openscreensjournal.com/articles/

Must Jurors Know the Stakes of Conviction? Sentencing, Encroachment, and Legal Proof A recent view in legal epistemology holds that since knowledge is the standard for proof of criminal guilt, and since there is pragmatic encroachment on knowledge, contrary to current trial practice j...

New article in Political Philosophy: "Must Jurors Know the Stakes of Conviction? Sentencing, Encroachment, and Legal Proof" by J. Colin Bradley (NYU) and Eleanor Gordon-Smith (Princeton), available open-access at: politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

Policy Experiments, Informed Consent, and Democratic Authorization In a typical clinical trial, researchers are required to obtain participants’ informed consent. But for some policy experiments, it is impracticable to obtain informed consent. As a result, these tria...

New article in Political Philosophy: "Policy Experiments, Informed Consent, and Democratic Authorization" by Marcos Picchio (National Institutes of Health), available open-access at politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/2...

Collective Self-Determination and International Authority in Climate Governance This article investigates how future climate governance might be made legitimate and compatible with collective self-determination. I develop an original account of international legitimacy through a...

New article in Political Philosophy: "Collective Self-Determination and International Authority in Climate Governance" by Anna Stilz (UC Berkeley), available open-access at: politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies is sad to learn of the death of Breandán Ó Conaire, author of the pioneering 1986 study "Myles na Gaeilge".
Read Breandán's 2018 TPR article on O’Nolan’s Irish language background for free via @openlibhums.bsky.social: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayover.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.

Mystery birthday gift received this morning - a poster of Sean Connery as Zardoz. Finally confirmed as coming from my ridiculous @openlibhums.bsky.social colleagues. Relieved it wasn’t my mother-in-law to be honest.

📘 Issue 2/2025 is packed with insight on migration, skills, inequality, tech, climate and more.

Explore the latest labour research — now #OpenAccess w @openlibhums.bsky.social.

🔗 bit.ly/4lmf2Oc

#ILR #FutureOfWork #LabourResearch #DecentWork

Screenshot of the introduction to the "Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?" special collection, featuring a background image of a wooden architectural corridor with a hanging lantern

Read our collection of articles published as part of the #OLHJournal “Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?” Special Collection, guest-edited by Christine Vial Kayser and Marie Laureillard: olh.openlibhums.org/...

Have you read the latest issue of Zygon?
It features two special sections— on Orthodoxy and science, and on popular culture’s role in shaping science and religion. Also includes articles on sacred sites, planetary AI ethics, Islam and science, and Augustine on miracles. Read www.zygonjournal.org...

The collection will attend to local/national practices as well as transnational movements and aims to advance the theory and methodology of poetry performance studies. The deadline for submission is 21 November 2025. Please find the ‘Call for Submissions’ at poetryoffthepage.net/wp-content/u...