Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
How much time do you spend performing various activities? In 2022, I spent 506 hours answering email, or 63 full work-day’s worth of time. At that point, my ...
Read Article →Literature • Publishing • Technology
Martin Paul Eve
Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.
Technical Lead for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State University.
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Areas of Focus
Bridging the gap between computational technology and literary studies.
Open Access
Researching, advocating for, and building open-access publishing models and technology in the humanities.
Digital Humanities
Developing computational tools for the analysis of literature.
Contemporary Fiction & Culture
Researching contemporary American fiction.
The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
Shadow libraries, that is, illegal massive repositories of books of all kinds, are of course prone to takedowns by police and disappearance from the internet...
Read Article →Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Since I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he...
Read Article →Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and t...
Read Article →On citations, AI, and 'not reading'
There has been a major furore in recent days on social media about the rise in AI citations that have been hallucinated. These citations appear in manuscript...
Read Article →2,000 Christmas trees sold by the 14th December
This year we had a familiar argument in my household about when the Christmas tree should go up. My other half insists that it should be a late arrival, just...
Read Article →Latest Book
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
An exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping the way we write, publish, and read in the 21st century. This book argues for a radical rethinking of scholarly communication.