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"The editorial team’s resignation follows ongoing concerns about Springer Nature putting pressure on editors to accept and publish more articles. Commercial publishers like Springer Nature are increasingly using this tactic to grow the revenue they receive for open access publishing via APCs."
New in @ilr-rit.bsky.social: “Digital content framing for unionism: A conceptual model on the influence of context on Chilean labour confederations’ social media content”, by Daina Bellido de Luna Mayea, Carolina Martínez-Troncoso and David Díaz
The first two articles in the new #OLHJournal Special Collection, "Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative", are now available to read:
olh.openlibhums.org/collections/...
Essay on reading Ali Smith’s "How to Be Both" and Percival Everett’s "Telephone" in the age of cruel optimism (Lauren Berlant) … both of which employ multiple published versions to unsettle narrative unity and readerly expectations.
Such strategies are in response to accelerated instability #Lit
BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH.
www.openlibhums.org/news/943/
We're thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages, a new diamond open access journal - the scholar-owned and -led successor to Natural Language Semantics, published with OLH under the auspices of LingOA.
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The Editors
Amy Rose Deal, Clemens Mayr, Florian Schwarz
Our new issue—13.1 (Summer 2026)—has just opened! Featuring Tommaso Villa on the contemporary sports novel, Frankie Hines on waste and _White Teeth_, and review essays by Yian Zhu and Mortada Haidar
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1941/i...
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
In this article, we explore how labour organizations use and leverage social media for their agenda-setting in a decentralized labour context (i.e. Chile). We combine two studies – a topic-modelling algorithm (BERTopic) analysing the digital activity of five labour confederations on a specific social media platform (N = 14,863 tweets), together with five in-depth interviews with leaders and communication officers from these confederations – to explore how they prioritize messages and frame their content to advance their agendas. We also develop a conceptual model to address the influence of context on the choice of social media content.
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
Many of the formal innovations of contemporary fiction arise from a collective sense of ceaseless crisis—a recognition that traditional modes of storytelling, forged in earlier cultural climates, may ...
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
www.openlibhums.org
Read @c21literature.bsky.social special issue “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Denise Wong, Arin Keeble, alice and Dr. Melissa Schuh: c21.openlibhums.org/...
BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH.
www.openlibhums.org/news/943/
Professor Caroline Edwards
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …