Martin Paul Eve

Martin Paul Eve

Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London

I have won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize

Last week, while I was having blood products transfused at the Royal Free Hospital, I received an email from the Leverhulme Trust stating that I had been awa...

Immunity problems

From around 2010 to 2013 I was on a drug called Rituximab to control my autoimmune conditions (rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis). This highly effective me...

An expensive but possible way to do Society OA

A Learned Society spoke to me last week about what they could do to move to an open-access model. They currently receive about 100,000 EUR per year from thei...

A thought experiment: do we really care about the type of scholarly publishing entity?

After last week’s post on APCs, some further musings. Following Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s work on generous thinking and the importance of community for the acad...

The Problems of Unit Costs Per Article

Every five minutes or so, someone tries to come up with a cost-per-article figure for academic publishing. In the past, I’ve tried to do it too. But more and...

Learned Societies, Open Access and Budgetary Cross-Subsidy

There’s an article out in The Times Higher Education Science Magazine (edit 11:38am) about Learned Societies and open access. As usual, it points out the tho...

When infrastructural support clashes with DORA and good research assessment practices

Here’s an interesting one for me. The article processing charge (APC) model for open access is attracting a lot of flack. It’s being called the “scourge” of ...