Open Humanities Press
| Founded | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Paul Ashton, Gary Hall, Sigi Jöttkandt and David Ottina |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Publication types | Books, Journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Humanities |
| Official website | www |
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 such as Alain Badiou, Jonathan Culler, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean-Claude Guédon, J. Hillis Miller, Antonio Negri, Peter Suber and Gayatri Spivak among others.
History
The Open Humanities Press (OHP) is a scholar-led publishing initiative founded by Paul Ashton (Australia), Gary Hall (UK), Sigi Jöttkandt (Australia) and David Ottina (US). Its aim is to raise 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 seven open access journals and was named a "beacon of hope" by the Public Library of Science.[1] In August, 2009 OHP announced it will begin publishing open access book series edited by senior members of OHP's board.
Works
Books
The first five monograph series were:
- New Metaphysics edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour
- Critical Climate Change edited by Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen
- Global Conversations edited by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Fibreculture Books edited by Andrew Murphie
- Liquid Books edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall
The New Metaphysics series include:
- Being Up For Grabs: On Speculative Anarcheology by Hilan Bensusan
- New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies edited by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin
- Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism by Joseph Carew
- Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology by Tom Sparrow with foreword by Catherine Malabou
- Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality by Timothy Morton
- The Being of Analogy by Noah Roderick
- The Democracy of Objects by Levi Bryant
Journals
Open Humanities Press also host several open access journals, including the following:
- Australian Humanities Review
- Cosmos and History
- Culture Unbound
- Culture Machine
- Electronic Book Review (ebr)
- Fast Capitalism
- Fibreculture Journal
- Film-Philosophy
- Filozofski Vestnik
- Glossator
- Image & Narrative
- Inflexions
- International Journal of Zizek Studies
- Parrhesia
- Postcolonial Text
- Teknokultura
- Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
See also
References
Further reading
- "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