The Open Library of Humanities is extremely pleased to announce that the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry will be the first subscription journal to move to the completely open-access model offered by the OLH.
The Open Library of Humanities is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded gold open-access publication platform. Unlike many gold open-access publishers, however, the OLH has no author-facing charges and is instead funded by an international consortium of libraries through the Library Partnership Subsidies model. The platform is open to existing journals who wish to move to a sustainable gold open-access publication mode.
Scott Thurston (University of Salford), Gareth Farmer and Vicky Sparrow, the journal’s editors stated: “This move to a fully open-access platform with the OLH is a game-changing moment for the journal in its sixth year of operations. It also coincides happily with new arrivals on our editorial team. We’ve had a fantastic time in our inaugural home at Gylphi and will be eternally grateful to Anthony Levings for helping to bring the journal into existence in the first place and for supporting the move. That our new form is open-access (and free of author-charges) sits particularly well with the ethos of a journal so concerned with liberated and liberating writing, and we hope the move will open our work up to a wider community of thinkers. We are all thrilled about the potential for this new phase of operations and keen to experiment!”
Journals wishing to join the platform should submit an initial enquiry to martin.eve@openlibhums.org. Applications will be be subject to the platform’s joining procedure. Libraries outside the US and UK interested in joining the OLH Library Partnership Subsidy model should contact Dr. Martin Paul Eve: martin.eve@openlibhums.org. UK-based libraries can join through Jisc Collections at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/Index/2120. US-based libraries can join through LYRASIS at https://lyrasis.openlibhums.org.