Open Humanities Press
Encyclopedia
Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing initiative in the humanities, specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP's editorial board includes leading scholars and open access advocates such as Alain Badiou
, Jonathan Culler
, Stephen Greenblatt
, Jean-Claude Guédon
, J. Hillis Miller
, Antonio Negri
, Peter Suber
and Gayatri Spivak among others.
OHP launched in May 2008 with 7 open access journals and was named a "beacon of hope" by the Public Library of Science
. In August, 2009 OHP announced it will begin publishing open access book series edited by senior members of OHP's board. The first 5 series are:
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...
, Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler is a class of 1966 Harvard graduate and Professor of English at Cornell University. He is an important figure of the structuralism movement of literary theory and criticism.- Background and career:...
, Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term...
, Jean-Claude Guédon
Jean-Claude Guédon
Jean-Claude Guédon is a Quebec-based academic.-Education:In 1960-1, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York . He went on to study chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York and finally earned a Ph.D...
, J. Hillis Miller
J. Hillis Miller
Joseph Hillis Miller, Jr. is an American literary critic who has been heavily influenced by—and who has heavily influenced—deconstruction.- Early life and education :...
, Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...
, Peter Suber
Peter Suber
Peter Suber is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is a senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a senior researcher at SPARC , and a Fellow at Harvard's and...
and Gayatri Spivak among others.
History
The Open Humanities Press (OHP) is a scholar-led publishing initiative founded by Paul Ashton (Australia), Gary Hall (UK), Sigi Jöttkandt (New Zealand) and David Ottina (US). Its aim is to raise faculty awareness of open access 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 7 open access journals and was named a "beacon of hope" by the Public Library of Science
Public Library of Science
The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license...
. In August, 2009 OHP announced it will begin publishing open access book series edited by senior members of OHP's board. The first 5 series are:
- New Metaphysics, edited by Graham HarmanGraham HarmanGraham Harman is a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a contemporary philosopher of metaphysics, who attempts to reverse the linguistic turn of Western philosophy...
and Bruno LatourBruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
; - Critical Climate Change, edited by Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen;
- Global Conversations, edited by Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'oNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...
; - Unidentified Theoretical Objects, edited by Wlad GodzichWlad GodzichWlad Godzich is a literary critic, literary theorist, translator, and scholar. He is attributed with influencing the conceptualization of modern literary critical theory...
; - Liquid Books, edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall
See also
- arXivArXivThe arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...
- List of academic databases and search engines
- H-netH-NetH-Net is an interdisciplinary online discussion forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences that consists of over 180 topic- or discipline-specific listservs. Many of the lists deal with various areas of historical study...
- Open access (publishing)
- Public Library of SciencePublic Library of ScienceThe Public Library of Science is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license...