Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.

Our next guest post is from Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN, who updates on what is next for Open Research Europe and why it matters.

The peer-reviewed journal article, perhaps the single most important device behind the expansion of scientific knowledge in the last century, is an extraordinarily expensive way to share novelty: e…

Diamond open access pushed the conversation from free-to-read to free-to-publish. It’s time to think of equity more broadly.

With politicians and science funders becoming more vocal about publishers’ profits, experts predict shift in focus to different forms of free-to-read distribution

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

A Technopolis report states a 2% economic devaluation if there isn't an open future. But does this miss the point?

Today's guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …

Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

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Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

Today's guest blogger calls for adding "understandable" to the FAIR data principles, to ensure we do not surrender human knowledge in our rush for automation.

A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...

Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Today's post presents preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in pap...

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Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at King’s College, Cambridge on December 3rd for an in-depth …