LYRASIS is excited to announce a new partnership with the Mellon-funded Open Library of Humanities (OLH), an open access program designed to provide peer-review, publishing, and hosting services for scholarly articles in the humanities. You may have seen the press release that was issued yesterday.

The program is funded by annual contributions from libraries to support the creation of open access articles in the OLH mega-journal. As more libraries participate, more articles will be published. OLH will also work with current subscription humanities journals to help them transform their business model into an open access environment. These journals will then become part of the OLH family of journals. Please review the OLH Prospectus for more information.

Although not related in any way, OLH is designed to provide for the humanities the type of resource that the Public Library of Science (PLOS) provides for the scientific disciplines. Scientific researchers often have grant funding to support article processing charges (APCs). Humanities scholars typically do not have grant funds to use for this purpose, so an alternative model for open access in the humanities is required.

Requested annual contribution levels are as follows:

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Libraries may pledge support for a term of 1-5 years, with full payment due at the beginning of the selected term. Additional voluntary contributions are welcomed. Please enter pledges at https://lyrasis.openlibhums.org/.

Celeste Feather

Senior Director for Licensing and Strategic Partnerships

LYRASIS

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