Copyedits late 2025

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             <p>Your investment funds the publication of
-            34 humanities journals
+            35 humanities journals
             while supporting our collective goal to make scholarly publishing
             fairer, more accessible and rigorously preserved for the digital
             future.</p>
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
           <h2 id="your-investment">Your investment.</h2>
           <p>We are not a subscription publisher, charging fees for exclusive
           access to our journals. Instead, your investment funds
-          34 open-access journals
+          35 open-access journals
           in the humanities, with no author-facing charges,
           making them accessible to anyone with an internet connection.</p>
           <p>By supporting us, you join over 340 libraries worldwide who are
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ <h2 id="your-investment">Your investment.</h2>
           entire academic community. In 2022, we published and funded a total
           of 469 articles across journals. These publications were
           downloaded 1,122,354 times and viewed 2,539,747 times.
-          We now publish 34 journals
+          We now publish 35 journals
           and 6 journals are archived.
           </p>
           <p>Higher-level OLH membership helps us expand. We use these funds to
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ <h2 id="other-ways-to-support">Other ways to support.</h2>
           membership. Recommending OLH journals to scholars in your institution
           can raise academic awareness about scholar-led and not-for-profit
           publishing models. We encourage you to suggest our
-          34 journals to
+          35 journals to
           your academics for their publications and use on university
           curricula. We also welcome expressions of interest to write for our
           <a href="/news/tag/Open%20Insights/"

templates/custom/benefits-infographic.html

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         2. Fund
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-        Fund 34
+        Fund 35
         diamond open-access humanities journals.
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templates/custom/counter-block.html

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           Journals
         </p>
         <p class="font-poppins-bold max-lg:text-6xl lg:text-8xl">
-          34
+          35
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             {{ request.press.public_journals.count }}
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templates/custom/frequently-asked-questions.html

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ <h3 id="why-should-my-library" class="inline font-poppins-medium">
             platform, the OLH has dramatically reduced the cost of high-quality
             journal publishing online. It’s cheaper for your library to join the
             OLH and pay an annual membership, which funds the publication of 500
-            articles across 34 journals each year,
+            articles across 35 journals each year,
             than to pay a single Article
             Processing Charge (APC) to publish one article open access with a
             legacy publisher. (Typically, it costs a humanities researcher c.£2,500

templates/custom/olh-model.html

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ <h2 id="collectivity-is-working">Collectivity is working.</h2>
           open-access publishing.
           <p>It’s cheaper for your library to join the OLH and pay an annual
           membership, which funds the publication of 500 articles across
-          34 journals each year,
+          35 journals each year,
           than to pay a single Article Processing Charge
           (APC) to publish one article open access with a legacy publisher.
           (Typically, it costs a humanities researcher c.£2,500 / €2,894 /

templates/custom/olh-numbers-infographic.html

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       <p>The OLH has grown from 7 journals in 2015 to
       <strong class="font-bold">
-        34 journals
+        35 journals
       </strong>
       in {% now "Y" %}</p>
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templates/custom/publisher-policies.html

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               <a href="#open-access">Open-access policy</a> |
               <a href="#anti-plagiarism">Anti-plagiarism checking</a> |
               <a href="#peer-review">Rigorous peer review</a> |
-              <a href="#archiving-and-indexing">Archiving and indexing</a>
+              <a href="#archiving-and-indexing">Archiving and indexing</a> |
+              <a href="#generative-artificial-intelligence">Generative artificial intelligence</a>
             </div>
             <div class="flex flex-row justify-center">
               <a href="#publication-ethics-and-malpractice"><b>Publication ethics and malpractice</b></a>
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@
               <a href="#authorship-and-contributorship">Authorship and contributorship</a>
             </div>
             <div class="flex flex-row justify-center">
-              <b>Revised February 2025</b>
+              <b>Revised January 2026</b>
             </div>
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@@ -171,6 +172,9 @@ <h3 id="archiving-and-indexing">Archiving and indexing policy.</h3>
           let us know by <a
           href="/contact/">contacting us</a>
           or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service and letting the publisher, OLH, know of such requests.</p>
+          <h3 id="generative-artificial-intelligence">Generative artificial intelligence.</h3>
+          <p>The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarly publishing has evolved rapidly, coinciding with the development of better trained AI models and other technological advances. In recognition of the need for clarity on acceptable and unacceptable generative AI uses in academic research, and in all areas of the publishing workflow, we have produced extensive guidance for authors, journal editors and peer reviewers in our <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">Artificial Intelligence Policy</a>. All parties in the publishing process must consult and follow the content of our AI policy.</p>
+          <p>We continue to monitor the latest international scholarly debates and legal frameworks for generative AI use, while consulting the editorial teams of our journals, to reflect a truly community-led, humanities-focussed approach to this nascent but increasingly ubiquitous technology. Our policy on generative AI is an evolving document that draws upon the current legal status of generative AI in terms of authorship, but also considers the impact of generative AI use on research integrity, accessibility, and publication ethics and malpractice.</p>
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@@ -336,11 +340,11 @@ <h4>iv) Data sharing and reproducibility.</h4>
           and materials. All of our journals follow this ethos, and in many cases have further best practice guidance on data sharing and reproducibility as part of the journal's own policy.</p>
           <h4>v) Intellectual property.</h4>
           <p>Authors with work published in OLH journals retain their copyright but grant the ability for the publisher to disseminate the work under Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 (and, in very rare circumstances, under other CC licences). Full details are available on the ‘Copyright Notice’ of the ‘Submissions’ page of our journals.</p>
+          <p>Authors who have used generative AI in the research and writing process for their work according to OLH's appropriate use cases (given in full in our <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">Artificial Intelligence Policy</a>) should note that all generative AI outputs are the responsibility of the author and the author must claim responsibility for and have full oversight of any use(s) of generative AI in their research. This is because generative AI is not a person and does not have the legal agency to hold its own copyright or to be considered a (co-)author. Please see our <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">AI Policy</a> in full for further information on the acceptable use cases of generative AI.</p>
           <h4>vi) Ethical oversight.</h4>
           <p>Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data,
           must have been performed in accordance with the <a
-          href="https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/">Declaration
-          of Helsinki</a>. Where applicable, the
+          href="https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/">Declaration of Helsinki</a>. Where applicable, the
           studies must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee and the
           authors should include a statement within the article text detailing this
           approval, including the name of the ethics committee and reference number of
@@ -408,6 +412,7 @@ <h4>iv) Editorial decisions.</h4>
           notes and other workflow actions are available for other editors to see at any
           point in the article’s passage through the journal’s workflow. The publisher
           maintains oversight of all editorial decisions within the workflow.</p>
+          <p>Editors must not use generative AI to make any editorial decisions for them; generative AI does not have the legal agency to do so. Editors must give their own due scrutiny to each submission made to their journal and this includes making all editorial decisions for submitted work. Please see our <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">Artificial Intelligence Policy</a> in full for further information.</p>
           <h4>v) Conduct and behaviour.</h4>
           <p>Editors are expected to uphold the highest standards of good and amicable conduct in their working relationships with authors, editors, reviewers, and with the publisher. Editors must raise any issues in the journal's editorial workflow with other parties swiftly and clearly, without causing any undue animosity. Editors are also expected to behave ethically and responsibly throughout the publishing workflow. Any allegations of abusive or otherwise concerning behaviour from editors towards other parties must be raised with the publisher.</p>
           <h4>vi) Compliance with investigations.</h4>
@@ -476,6 +481,7 @@ <h4>iv) Conducting reviews.</h4>
           information is detected in anonymous peer-review reports, editors must edit the
           report to remove the identifying text before the author sees it. For review reports being submitted as electronic text files, please see OLH's guidance on '<a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/anonreview/">Ensuring an Anonymous Review</a>' for further information on how to anonymise electronic documents.</p>
           <p>Reviewers should conduct reviews with as much supporting evidence for their claims as possible, to avoid undue subjective bias. Any relevant sources that the author has failed to cite should be suggested where possible and an explanation of their relevance should be given. If a reviewer has concerns about the manuscript, such as plagiarism of or similarity to another’s work, they must contact the editors immediately with an explanation of their concerns.</p>
+          <p>Reviewers must not use generative AI to fabricate peer review reports for author submissions. Should a reviewer be found to be using generative AI to fabricate a peer review report, the journal editor(s) will disregard the review in the editorial decision-making process for the article. For further information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of generative AI for reviewers, please see OLH's full <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">Artificial Intelligence Policy</a>.</p>
           <h4>v) Coercive citation manipulation.</h4>
           <p>Reviewers should not engage in coercive citation manipulation
           practices in which they suggest that an author should revise their
@@ -516,6 +522,8 @@ <h4>vi) Citation manipulation, coercive citation manipulation and data falsifica
           <p>Authors should not engage in excessive citation of their own work, or an over-reliance on the research of any single author when constructing their own argument and writing their original research. An example of this would be recycling many quotations of a pre-existing publication by the author in their newly submitted research, or citing another researcher’s original work throughout the manuscript to the extent that the author’s own argument is lacking. Authors should also not cite solely to raise the citation frequency of any journal, or of any individual.</p>
           <p>If an author suspects that the journal’s editor is pressuring them to include citations or references to work that is the editor’s own, or by a journal that the editor has engagement with in a way that the author believes to be unnecessarily coercive, they should inform the journal’s Editor-in-Chief immediately, or the publisher, so that a full investigation can take place into the alleged misconduct.</p>
           <p>Authors should not, where any data is given, knowingly amend or alter it to suit their own analyses or argument. Such falsification of data is serious and will result in a malpractice investigation which may lead to article rejection, correction, retraction or removal from the journal.</p>
+          <h4>vii) The use of generative AI.</h4>
+          <p>Authors must read and abide by OLH's <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">Artificial Intelligence Policy</a> in full before submitting work to an OLH journal. Authors must adhere to acceptable and responsible uses of generative AI in their research, and they must determine whether they need to make an 'AI Declaration Statement' as indicated by OLH's policy for the transparency of research methods and for ethical best practice. Authors assume full responsibility of all generative AI outputs, in all cases, and must have oversight of all acceptable generative AI uses as stated in our full <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">AI Policy</a>.</p>
           <h3 id="authorship-and-contributorship">Authorship and contributorship.</h3>
           <p>Articles should list names of all those who contributed to the published work, to ensure
           transparency and the academic integrity of the research. Authors take
@@ -566,6 +574,7 @@ <h3 id="authorship-and-contributorship">Authorship and contributorship.</h3>
           <p>Where editors wish to incorporate the <a href="https://credit.niso.org/">Contributor
           Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)</a> system to acknowledge different models of contribution, this is
           permitted on a case-by-case basis.</p>
+          <p>The authorship or co-authorship of an article cannot be attributed to generative AI models or any other generative AI tools or technologies; generative AI is not considered a legal entity and does not meet the criteria for authorship in any capacity. Submitting authors are responsible for all generative AI uses, oversight, and outputs in their research. Authors should consult OLH's <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/">Artificial Intelligence Policy</a> for further detailed information.</p>
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           <h2 id="publish">Publish.</h2>
           <p class="font-semibold">Hosting
-          34 peer-reviewed academic journals
+          35 peer-reviewed academic journals
           (and counting!), including our flagship
           <i>Open Library of Humanities</i> Journal.</p>
           <p>We oversee editorial processes and provide support to our

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           <p class="font-semibold">We publish
-          34 open-access journals
+          35 open-access journals
           and are funded by more than 345 libraries worldwide, who
           have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more
           accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.</p>