Research Guides: Open Scholarship and Open Access: Open Humanities

Open Humanities Scholarship

Open Library of Humanities

Open Access publishing platform featuring academic journals from across the humanities, from classics, theology, and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory, and sociology.

Humanities Commons
Nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work
GoTriple
Multilingual discovery platform for the social sciences and humanities (SSH) that provides a central access points for discovering and reusing OA publications, data, projects, and authors.
Lever Press
Scholarly press supported by more than 50 liberal arts institutions. We publish peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to our authors or their academic institutions.
Open Book Publishers
The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK. Run by scholars and committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers. Access all our books online or download them for free.
Open Edition
Digital resources in the humanities and social sciences.
OSF Preprints
Open Science Foundation's preprint repository. Subjects covered include architecture, arts & humanities, business, education, engineering, law, life sciences, medicine & health sciences, physical sciences & mathematics, and social & behavioral sciences.
PhilArchive
The largest open access e-print archive in philosophy. Formerly known as the PhilPapers Archive, it is built on and integrated with the PhilPapers database.
Ubiquity Press
An open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data. We operate a highly cost-efficient model that makes quality open access publishing affordable for everyone.

What is the Accepted Manuscript Version?

The Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is the author’s final version that incorporates changes made as a result of the peer-review process, but prior to publisher’s copy-editing, typeface, or formatting. (Also called the "accepted manuscript", "author’s final version", “author’s final manuscript,” or “post-print.”). Commonly a .DOCX or other text format.

How to find your Accepted Manuscript:

Search your email, computer hard drive, and cloud storage
Contact the corresponding author who may have received this version at article acceptance or other co-authors
Log into the journal's author portal and retrieve a copy of the accepted version or AAM
Contact the journal by email and ask for a copy of the accepted version of your article
Search funder or subject repositories (i.e. PMC, SSRN)