[GOAL] Journals of the Open Library of Humanities join Paperity

[Marcin Wojnarski]

[source: 
http://blog.paperity.org/2015/09/29/paperity-and-open-library-of-humanities-partner-to-enhance-discoverability/]

We’re very pleased to announce a partnership between Paperity, the 
open-access aggregator, and the Open Library of Humanities. This is part 
of the ongoing commitment to solid discoverability principles for 
open-access articles at the OLH.

Paperity <http://paperity.org/> is the first multi-disciplinary 
aggregator of Open Access journals and papers. It aims to give readers 
easy and unconstrained access to thousands of journals from hundreds of 
disciplines, in one central location; to help authors reach their target 
audience, disseminate discoveries more effectively and maximize research 
impact; and to raise the exposure of journals, helping editors and 
publishers boost readership and encourage new submissions.

The Open Library of Humanities <https://about.openlibhums.org/> is an 
academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. 
With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers 
its costs by payments from an international library consortium, rather 
than any kind of author fee.

Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder and academic project director of the OLH, 
said of the partnership: “We are delighted to have OLH journals indexed 
in Paperity. It is vital that we encourage discoverability and indexing 
of open-access material so that the broadest scholarly benefit is 
derived from our work. Along with their aggregation services, Paperity’s 
partnership with EBSCO Information Services and Altmetric will help us 
to achieve this goal.”

Marcin Wojnarski, CEO of Paperity, added: “It is real pleasure for us to 
include OLH in Paperity. The humanities started embracing Open Access a 
long time ago and today there are already thousands of journals 
publishing OA, but so far these efforts have been very dispersed and 
disconnected from each other, without any clear leader to advocate for 
openness on behalf of all humanities scholars. We hope the OLH project, 
with its broad support among academics, innovative funding model and a 
strong commitment to publishing multiple high-quality journals in 
various areas of humanities research, will take the lead in the 
transformation towards universal Open Access and will pave the way for 
many other humanities journals to join the Open Access movement. We 
think OLH is an exceptional initiative, and very much needed in the 
humanities disciplines.”

Four OLH journals have been included in Paperity right after their 
launch, and more will be added in the near future. The complete list can 
be found at:
http://paperity.org/journals/1?publisher=Open%20Library%20of%20Humanities.

Journals wishing to join the OLH platform should submit an initial 
enquiry to _martin.eve at openlibhums.org 
<mailto:martin.eve at openlibhums.org>_. After the September launch of the 
OLH, applications will be subject to the platform’s joining procedure. 
Libraries outside the US and UK interested in joining the OLH Library 
Partnership Subsidy model should contact Dr. Martin Paul Eve: 
_martin.eve at openlibhums.org <mailto:martin.eve at openlibhums.org>_. 
UK-based libraries can join through Jisc Collections at 
_http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/Index/2120_. 
US-based libraries can join through LYRASIS at 
_https://lyrasis.openlibhums.org <https://lyrasis.openlibhums.org/>_.


-- 
Marcin Wojnarski, Founder and CEO at Paperity, www.paperity.org 
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