Coates Library, Trinity University signs up to OLH model | Open Library of Humanities

"We’re extremely pleased to announce that Coates Library, Trinity University has become a member of the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded on the vision of a few Texas pioneers who believed in the transformational powers of higher education, today Trinity serves students from around the world, and empowers them with the tools of 'a University of the highest order.' The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers the costs of the labour of publishing through a global library consortium so that authors do not have to pay. This model means that there are no fees for authors and no incentives for us to accept sub-par work ..."