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The Open Library of Humanities journal is no longer accepting general submissions. Please only use this page to submit if you are submitting an article to an open call for one of our Special Collections; general submissions will not be considered at this time.
Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal open to Special Collections submissions from researchers working in any humanities discipline in any language. The journal is no longer open to unsolicited general submissions. The journal is funded by an international library consortium and has no charges to authors or readers. The Open Library of Humanities is digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS archive.
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If your institution is not currently supporting the platform, we request that you ask your librarian to sign up. The OLH is extremely cost effective and is a not-for-profit charity. However, while we cannot function without financial support and we encourage universities to sign up, institutional commitment is not required to publish with us.
Publication CycleThe journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available.
All Special Collections articles will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page. For more information about OLH Special Collections please click here.
Public Submissions
Peer Reviewed
Indexed
[re]Framing the Arts: Sustainable Strategies in the Age of Climate Action
'An Unconventional MP': Nancy Astor, public women and gendered political culture
Medieval Minds and Matter
Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Correction
Editorial
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Scholarly Communications and Higher Education
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish campaign to End Period Poverty
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
The Encounter Between Asian and Western Art, 20th-21st Centuries
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918-2018