The Future of the Open Library of Humanities: Milestones, Governance, and Sustainability | Open Library of Humanities

Eve M. P. & Harris-Birtill R., (2021) “The Future of the Open Library of Humanities: Milestones, Governance, and Sustainability”, Open Library of Humanities 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.4726

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has reached its fifth anniversary of operations and is now into its eighth year since its inception. During this time, it has grown from a small operation with six journals and some 100 supporters to a multi-award winning academic publisher, with 28 academic journals, four full-time members of staff - soon to be six – and its own in-house open access publishing software. We have reached a huge milestone in ensuring its ongoing stability, with 300 supporting libraries and institutions that now contribute to our ongoing financial sustainability year-on-year.

While we have reflected elsewhere on the lessons that we have learned from our first half-decade, we are now at a turning point for our platform.¹ This brief editorial sets out the essential structural changes underway at OLH as we look towards the future, forming our guiding strategy for the next five years.

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