Open Humanities Press journals are leading open access publications in critical and cultural theory. All have been through a rigorous selection process by OHP’s Journal Editorial Oversight Group which considers a journal’s editorial mission and standards, its contribution to and ability to shape contemporary critical debates, its fit with OHP’s intellectual and international scope, as well as its promotion of a diversity of scholars and scholarly practices. Journals that aim to push experimentally beyond these general guidelines are also of interest.

Publication Standards

OHP journals are peer reviewed, have high-profile, international editorial boards, use accepted editorial conventions, publish regularly according to stated schedules, and are produced by a non-profit scholarly association or society.

OHP journals are immediately available in open access upon publication and use a clear, recognized OA license such as Creative Commons.

Editorial Practice

OHP recommends its journals:

• Have a clearly stated length of expected review period
• Generally meet this expected review period, with clear policies for obtaining alternative reviewers when necessary
• Have or develop a reputation for timely acceptance or rejection decisions
• Practice reasonable time-to-publication upon acceptance

Technical Considerations

OHP journals already or eventually will:

• provide full text electronically through website
• be compatible with OHP´s open source technical infrastructure
• be OAI-PMH compliant
• possess a stable home base / Evergreen URL / be archived permanently
• be accessible to people with disabilities
• follow industry standards for online journal publication citations, i.e. easily identifiable journal title, year of publication, volume and/or issue number (if applicable), article title, unique page number or article number, complete table-of-contents for each issue including page/article number for each article (unless journal is being published as single articles)

Journal Editorial Oversight Group

Drawn from OHP’s wider Editorial Board on a rotating basis, the Journal Editorial Oversight Group considers open access journals for inclusion in OHP. The 2015 group was:

• Janneke Adema

  Coventry University

• Paul Ashton

  Victoria University

• Clare Birchall

  King’s College London

• Tom Cohen

  University at Albany

• Steven Connor

  University of Cambridge

• Mark Davis

  University of Melbourne

• Ortwin de Graef

  KU Leuven

• Stephen Greenblatt

  Harvard University

• Lawrence Grossberg

  UNC Chapel Hill

• Gary Hall

  Coventry University

• Sigi Jöttkandt

  University of New South Wales

• Erin Manning

  Concordia University

• Brian Massumi

  University of Montreal

• J. Hillis Miller

  UC Irvine

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Columbia University

• Henry Sussman

  Yale University

• John Willinsky

  Stanford University
  Public Knowledge Project