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Ubiquity Press would like to welcome JOHD’s new Editor in Chief, Dr Barbara McGillivray. Barbara’s background is in computational linguistics for classical languages. She is a Turing research fellow at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and at The Alan Turing Institute. Barbara aims to make JOHD a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data.

We would also like to thank Dr Nicholas Weber for his hard work and efforts during the first years of the journal.

The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) features peer-reviewed publications describing humanities research objects, software, and methods with high potential for reuse. These might include curated resources like (annotated) linguistic corpora, ontologies, and lexicons, as well as databases, maps, atlases, linked data objects, and other data sets created with qualitative, quantitative, or computational methods. 

We are currently inviting submissions of two varieties:

1. Short data papers contain a concise description of a humanities research object with high reuse potential. These are short (1000 words) highly structured narratives and must conform to the data paper template.  A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather complements it. 

2. Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges, and limitations in the creation, collection, management, access, processing, or analysis of data in humanities research, including standards and formats. These are intended to be longer narratives (3000 - 5000 words), which give authors the ability to contribute to a broader discussion.

Humanities subjects of interest to JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Research that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplinary boundaries is highly encouraged.

JOHD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Authors remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.

Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories. 

The Journal of Open Humanities Data is indexed by the following services: Chronos, Center for Open Science, OpenAIRE, ExLibris, Journal TOCs, CNKI, CrossRef, JISC KB+, SHERPA RoMEO, EBSCOHost, Cengage Learning and Google Scholar. In addition, all journals are available for harvesting via OAI-PMH. To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

Submit Now! We accept online submissions via our journal website. See Author Guidelines for further information. Alternatively, please contact the editors if you are unsure as to whether your research is suitable for submission to the journal.