Open Humanities Press is an international

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publishing initiative in the

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, specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP's editorial board includes scholars like

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucaul ...

Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler (born 1944) is an American literary critic. He was Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His published works are in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary crit ...

Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general edit ...

Jean-Claude Guédon Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943 in Le Havre, France) is a Quebec-based academic. Education In 1960-61, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York ( US). He went on to study chemistry ...

Graham Harman Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the developme ...

J. Hillis Miller Joseph Hillis Miller Jr. (March 5, 1928 – February 7, 2021) was an American literary critic and scholar who advanced theories of literary deconstruction. He was part of the Yale School along with scholars including Paul de Man, Jacques Derrid ...

Antonio Negri Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Spinozistic-Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of '' Empire'' and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a politica ...

Peter Suber Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge. He is a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarl ...

and

Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Lite ...

, among others. From 2010-2015, Open Humanities Press collaborated with the

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's MPublishing branch to fund the production of monographs. Open Humanities Press is currently collaborating in a similar way with the Main Library (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

History

The Open Humanities Press (OHP) is a

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-led publishing initiative founded by Paul Ashton (Australia), Gary Hall (UK), Sigi Jöttkandt (Australia) and David Ottina (US). Its aim is to raise awareness of

publishing in the

and to provide promotional and technical support to open access journals that have been invited by OHP's editorial oversight group to join the collective. OHP launched in May 2008 with seven open access journals and was named a "beacon of hope" by the

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.
Public Library of Science In August, 2009 OHP announced it will begin publishing Open access monograph, open access book series edited by senior members of OHP's board.

Works

Books

The monograph series are: *''New Metaphysics'' edited by

and

Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Libraries ...

*''Critical Climate Change'' edited by Claire Colebrook and

Tom Cohen Tom Dana Cohen (born August 13, 1953), is an American media and cultural theorist, currently a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has published books on film studies, comparative literature, theory, cult ...

*''CCC2 Irreversibility'' edited by

and Claire Colebrook *''Fibreculture Books'' edited by Andrew Murphie *''Liquid Books'' edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall *''Immediations'' edited by the SenseLab *''Technographies'' edited by

Steven Connor Steven Kevin Connor, FBA (born 11 February 1955) is a British literary scholar. Since 2012, he has been the Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was formerly the academic director ...

David Trotter David Trotter (born 4 March 1986) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Kangaroos Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Trotter grew up in Lockhart, New South Wales, a country town west of Wa ...

and James Purdon

Journals

Open Humanities Press also hosts several

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, including the following: *
Cosmos and History
' * '' Culture Machine'' * '' International Journal of Žižek Studies'' * '' Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular''

References

External links

* {{Authority control Online publishing companies of the United Kingdom Open access publishers