Open Humanities Press is an international open access 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 Fouca ...

, Jonathan Culler, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean-Claude Guédon,

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,

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 political p ...

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

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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 open access 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 *''CCC2 Irreversibility'' edited by Tom Cohen 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, David Trotter and James Purdon

Journals

Open Humanities Press also hosts several open access journals, 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