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Journal articles and monographs published under Open Access terms are available to the public with unrestricted access to read and re-use. Oxford University Press (OUP) is mission-driven to support the broad dissemination of high-quality academic research, and we believe that open access (OA) can add value to the scholarly publishing process by maximizing discoverability and distribution of research through a clear framework for reuse. We are proud to be the largest university press publisher of OA content with over 80 fully OA journals, 115 OA Books, and over 400 journals with OA publishing options.

Open Access provides opportunities for researchers across all of the disciplines including the arts and humanities. Take a moment to learn more about Open Access publishing in the humanities across journals and books.

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Open Access at OUP

Classics

History

Linguistics

Literature

Music

Philosophy

Religion

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Below is just a small sample of the innovative research published Open Access across the arts and humanities

Classics

• The Emergence of New Polities in the Breakup of the Abbasid Caliphate

from Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE

• Making Sense of Chaos: Civil War, Dynasties, and Family Trees

from Ancient Divination and Experience

• Reflections on public slavery and social death

from Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

• Graecia Belgica: writing Ancient Greek in the early modern Low Countries

from Classical Receptions Journal

History

• Bede, the Papacy, and the Emperors of Constantinople

from The English Historical Review

• Composing Well-being: Mental Health and the Mass Observation Project in Twentieth-Century Britain

from Social History of Medicine

• Crossing the Mediterranean

from Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

• East Asian Industrial Pioneers

from The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871

Linguistics

• For the Record: Questioning Transcription Processes in Legal Contexts

from Applied Linguistics

• Teacher agency and washback: insights from classrooms in rural Bangladesh

from ELT Journal

• Entailments of change in the roots of change-of-state verbs

from The Roots of Verbal Meaning

• Questions

from Inquisitive Semantics

Literature

• The Rights to a Life

 from On Life-Writing

• (Meta)Physical Homelessness In Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But The Mountains

from Forum for Modern Language Studies

• Tyranny and Liberty, Resistance and Regicide: Political Assassination in John Galt’s The Spaewife

from English: Journal of the English Association

• The Poetics of Prose Cures

from Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500

• Innovation and Poetic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Persian

from India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists

• The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies

Music

• Embodying Sonic Resonance as/after Trauma

from Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars

• The Myth of Perfect Fidelity

from The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music

• Music as Gloss in Newly Discovered Notations for Horace’s Odes

from The Musical Quarterly

• Music As Extended Agency: On Notation And Entextualization IN Improvised Music

from Music and Letters

Philosophy

• Fear of the Common Good and the Neglect of Justice

from For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics

• What Should We Believe About Belief?

from Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People

• The Foundations of Branching Space-Times

from Branching Space-Times: Theory and Applications

• Get Smart: Outcomes, Influence, and Responsibility

from The Monist

• The Truthful Portrait: Can Posing Be a Tool for Authenticity in Portraiture?

from The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Religion

• Introduction: How to Approach Early Christian Poetry

from The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority

• From the Origins to the End of the Third Century

from The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts

• Reproaching the Divine: Poetic Theologies of Protest as a Resource for Expanding the Philosophy of Religion

from Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Church Poverty Relief during a Time of Crisis? Experiences of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

from Journal of Church and State

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