Open Humanities Press is an international

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

publishing initiative in the humanities, specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP's editorial board includes scholars like Alain Badiou,

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 critici ...

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 a ...

, Graham Harman,

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 De ...

, Antonio Negri, Peter Suber and Gayatri Spivak, among others. From 2010-2015, Open Humanities Press collaborated with the University of Michigan Library'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 scholar-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 humanities 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 Public Library of Science.
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 Graham Harman and Bruno Latour *''Critical Climate Change'' edited by

Claire Colebrook Claire Colebrook (or Claire Mary Colebrook) (born 25 October 1965), is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

and Tom Cohen *''CCC2 Irreversibility'' edited by Tom Cohen and

*''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

open access journals Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

, 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