The Chronicle

Posted on Feb 4, 2013 in Media, Publishing | 0 comments

In January 2013, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) project that I co-direct with Dr Martin Eve was in its early stages of launching as an international network of academics, publishers and open source software developers. We were fortunate to receive a large amount of media coverage in the first few months of organising the project, including a high-profile article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Jennifer Howard.

In the article, Jennifer Howard writes that:

A brand-spanking-new nonprofit organization, called the Open Library of Humanities, aims to create a humanities-and-social-sciences version of the successful Public Library of Science, or PLoS, which in the past decade has established itself as a major presence in open-access, peer-reviewed scientific publishing. Like PLoS, the Open Library of Humanities, or OLH, will be peer-reviewed.

 

[…] "At this moment, we're a project," Ms. Edwards says. "We've got a loose organizational structure." But an advisory committees has filled up quickly with an impressive roster of well-established academics. For instance, Michael Eisen, an associate professor of biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a co-founder of PLoS, is on the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee, along with David Armitage, chairman of Harvard University's history department, and other notables "The right people are on board," Ms. Edwards says. "We need a legitimate mandate, and that has to come from academics themselves.""

To read the article in full, click here: Jennifer Howard, "Project Aims to Bring PLoS-Style Openness to the Humanities," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 January 2013.

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