Open Humanities Press
Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing initiative in the humanities, specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP's editorial board includes leading scholars and open access advocates such as Alain Badiou, Jonathan Culler, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean-Claude Guédon, J. Hillis Miller, Antonio Negri, Peter Suber and Gayatri Spivak among others.
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[edit] History
The Open Humanities Press (OHP) is a scholar-led publishing initiative founded by Paul Ashton (Australia), Gary Hall (UK), Sigi Jöttkandt (New Zealand) and David Ottina (US). Its aim is to raise faculty awareness of open access publishing in the humanities and to provide promotional and technical support to open access journals that have been invited by OHP's editorial oversight group to join the collective.
OHP launched in May 2008 with 7 open access journals and was named a "beacon of hope" by the Public Library of Science. In August, 2009 OHP announced it will begin publishing open access book series edited by senior members of OHP's board. The first 5 series are:
- New Metaphysics, edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour;
- Critical Climate Change, edited by Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen;
- Global Conversations, edited by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o;
- Unidentified Theoretical Objects, edited by Wlad Godzich;
- Liquid Books, edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall
[edit] See also
- arXiv
- List of academic databases and search engines
- H-net
- Open access (publishing)
- Public Library of Science
[edit] References
- "New Open Access Press Makes its Debut," Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 May, 2008
- "OA in the Humanities Badlands," Tracy Caldwell, Information World Review, 4 June 2008
- "OA on the Crest of a Wave," Julie Hare, Campus Review 18.26 1 July 2008
