Martin Paul Eve

Martin Paul Eve

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

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 ...

Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself

Sci-Hub is a copyright-violating site that provides infringing access to scholarly publications that are behind paywalls. Its ethics are problematic but it’s...

Thinking through citation resolution and proposals for consumer-driven, DOI-like metadata repositories

One of the major challenges that we face in the Jisc Open Monographs Metrics Experiment is in aligning the linguistic expression of a citation with its under...

The British Academy response misrepresents Plan S and OA

The British Academy has responded to the revised Plan S consultation. It’s nice of them to grudgingly accept there have been some improvements but I remain d...

Academic author rights of presentation on mutable digital platforms

An interesting discussion today with one of my senior publishing technology developers, Mauro Sanchez, led me to thinking about the rights of presentation an...

Ratholin'

Stare him in the eyes when you think he’s folding You play your luck with the cards you’re holding You throw a double six with the dice you’re rolling You go...