From: Marcin Wojnarski <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:15:45 +0200

[source: http://blog.paperity.org/2015/09/29/paperity-and-open-library-of-humanities-partner-to-enhance-discoverability/]

We’re very pleased to announce a partnership between Paperity, the
open-access aggregator, and the Open Library of Humanities. This is
part of the ongoing commitment to solid discoverability principles for
open-access articles at the OLH.

Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access
journals and papers. It aims to give readers easy and unconstrained
access to thousands of journals from hundreds of disciplines, in one
central location; to help authors reach their target audience,
disseminate discoveries more effectively and maximize research impact;
and to raise the exposure of journals, helping editors and publishers
boost readership and encourage new submissions.

The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access
publisher with no author-facing charges. With funding from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its costs by payments from
an international library consortium, rather than any kind of author
fee.

Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder and academic project director of the
OLH, said of the partnership: “We are delighted to have OLH journals
indexed in Paperity. It is vital that we encourage discoverability and
indexing of open-access material so that the broadest scholarly
benefit is derived from our work. Along with their aggregation
services, Paperity’s partnership with EBSCO Information Services and
Altmetric will help us to achieve this goal.”

Marcin Wojnarski, CEO of Paperity, added: “It is real pleasure for us
to include OLH in Paperity. The humanities started embracing Open
Access a long time ago and today there are already thousands of
journals publishing OA, but so far these efforts have been very
dispersed and disconnected from each other, without any clear leader
to advocate for openness on behalf of all humanities scholars. We hope
the OLH project, with its broad support among academics, innovative
funding model and a strong commitment to publishing multiple
high-quality journals in various areas of humanities research, will
take the lead in the transformation towards universal Open Access and
will pave the way for many other humanities journals to join the Open
Access movement. We think OLH is an exceptional initiative, and very
much needed in the humanities disciplines.”

Four OLH journals have been included in Paperity right after their
launch, and more will be added in the near future. The complete list
can be found at:

http://paperity.org/journals/1?publisher=Open%20Library%20of%20Humanities.

Journals wishing to join the OLH platform should submit an initial enquiry to:

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After the September launch of the OLH, applications will 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:

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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.


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