L'Harmattan Open Access

Serving
the Academic Community

Open access to research results without language barriers and paywalls.

all books

201

peer-reviewed
scholarly books

13

institutional
collections

56 633

pages
of content

144

research
fields

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Open Access book publishing

Our publishing platform and workflows have been specifically designed for the publication and distribution of academic and peer-reviewed books (monographs, edited books, scholarly editions) in accordance with international standards and recommendations.

International visibility

Once published, our publications are included in the open access databases DOAB, OAPEN and Google Books, and – subject to their respective inclusion criteria – in the closed databases Web of Science BCI, EBSCOHost, ProQuest and OCLC.

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Our mission

Multilinguality in research

Using MI-based tools, we open a window onto the diverse world of the humanities and social sciences: we provide users with a multilingual semantic search engine and content summariser.

Diamond Open Access publishing

An increasingly high proportion of the costs of publishing our books is covered by institutional partnerships and research and publication grants. Therefore, in most cases, authors do not incur any costs.

Collaborative publishing ecosystem

We do not work alone: we are developing our sustainable, world-class open access book publishing activities in collaboration with research institutes, university presses, libraries and infrastructure providers.

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Recent PUBLICATIONS

Marketingkommunikáció. Közönség, kampány, média és formátumok
Marketingkommunikáció. Közönség, kampány, média és formátumok

Marketing Communication. Audience, campaign, media and formats

2026
Marketing
A rekreáció elmélete
A rekreáció elmélete

The Theory of Recreation

2026
Sport and fitness sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Nutrition, Dietetics
Székely elitcsaládok a 17. században
Székely elitcsaládok a 17. században

Szekler Elite Families in the Seventeenth Century

2026
Early modern history

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L'Harmattan Open Acces BLOG

Automatic reference extraction and thematic classification of longform publications  | Pilot with the Graphia Industry Hub

Automatic reference extraction and thematic classification of longform publications | Pilot with the Graphia Industry Hub

The Industry Hub contains GRAPHIA use cases from commercial, private as well as public organisations working with or providing services to commercial organisations. The pilot project aims to use GRAPHIA ecosystem for reference extraction and metadata enrichment of the books of L'Harmattan Open Access. During the pilot project, the publishing house aims to automate the extraction of references and the addition of scientific classifications, such as Thema, FoS and BISAC.

Supporting the Transition to Open Access | Poster Presented in OASPA 2025 Conference

Supporting the Transition to Open Access | Poster Presented in OASPA 2025 Conference

We had the honor of presenting in the conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) entitled Embracing the Complexity – how do we get to 100% OA? in Leuven, 22-24 September 2025. We introduced our OA book publishing activity and the initial results of our research and development project, which we launched in 2024. The following article is an enhanced and edited version of the presentation that was held during the first Poster Lightning Talks Session of the Conference on 22 September.

A Creative Commons licencek – a copyright és a közkincs között

A Creative Commons licencek – a copyright és a közkincs között

A Creative Commons nonprofit szervezet fő kitűzése a teljes jogvédelem és a közkinccsé tétel közötti szakadék betöltése. A CC licencek a jogvédelmi spektrumot szabad és nem szabad licencek létrehozásával egészítik ki, a copyright szerinti „minden jog fenntartva” mintájára a „néhány jog fenntartva” mottóval. A licencek háromféle jogot biztosíthatnak: megosztás, feldolgozás vagy adaptálás, és kereskedelmi célokra való felhasználás. A bejegyzés ennek open access könyvkiadásbeli gyakorlatát járja körül.