The Name of the Rose wasn't given its R rating for depictions of illicit witchcraft.

If you continue to describe previously criminal acts as "illicit" will we have "illicit suicide", "illicit abortion", "illicit gambling"?

I've seen the "Imitation Game" post in which it gets a PG-13 rating for "advanced math". I was more anxious by the claim of "illicit" sex.

Love that the Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics is called "TROLLing".

Creative Commons To Pass One Billion Licensed Works In 2015 http://zpr.io/qTRS

Security Experts Believe the Internet of Things Will Be Used To Kill Someone http://zpr.io/qYrv

While neglecting to say that they are selling you insurance against their own violence.

"Eh, wouldn't want /someone/ to repossess your home would you? Maybe you should buy some /insurance/".

Isn't it great how banks try to upsell you life insurance with mortgages. It's like a gangster protection racket.

Open Access and the Humanities is now listed in the @DOABooks! http://meve.io/1AYAvDa

Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source http://zpr.io/qYX7

Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs http://zpr.io/qYsa

My word, it's incredible. I've got #inboxzero and managed to tick off everything on today's todo list. Something is wrong.

HE Commission report on the financial sustainability of English HE http://zpr.io/qsVc

“Labour is not a commodity”. Mapping out assumptions on ‘labour’ in the co-operative movement http://zpr.io/qsVe

Alternative provider expansion – latest annual data from Student Loans Company http://zpr.io/qsVd

Also worth saying that there is an amazing preface in my book from the brilliant @petersuber!

If you want to know a bit more about the book, @jwyg's review for @LSEReviewBooks can be found here: http://meve.io/1voyETI

Google Told To Expand Right To Be Forgotten http://zpr.io/qsik

So, my book on open access and the humanities has been published by Cambridge University Press. It's open access! http://meve.io/1vp97Lk

Book: Open Access and the Humanities http://meve.io/1vp97Lk

Ace article by @alias_rex based on her paper at @WHN21CWriting in 2012. On disability in Sense of an Ending. http://meve.io/1247kiS

"Open access refers to a business model"... FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.

Top tip: if you title your article "Open access: what it is and what it is not", be sure that you actually know what it is and is not.

UK Announces Hybrid Work/Study Undergraduate Program To Fill Digital Gap http://zpr.io/qsyL

Literary translation as creation http://zpr.io/qs6N

UK music industry pushes for a new tax on CD copying http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw5eOK0h8

A consumerist rant: what’s wrong with banks http://meve.io/1yWRYrI

Every conversation I have had with a high street bank in the last six months has left me intensely angry and frustrated.

Foucault, Maoism, Genealogy: The Influence of Political Militancy in Michel Foucault’s Thought (2014) http://zpr.io/qjgd

"We will preserve our stuff". "We will make our stuff accessible". "Open stuff". Need specifics when thinking about data. Which "stuff"?

I always mentally replace "data" with "stuff" whenever someone is speaking. Great for assessing the practicalities of their proposal.

I swear the route back from Glasgow is far worse on the tilting nausea than the route to Glasgow. Feel unwell every time.

. @eferwerda articulated something well today: we do OA because we have been told the book is in crisis, unread. We do it to save the book.

A reminder to join us in Glasgow University Library at midday to find out about open access in the humanities disciplines.

There's currently an exhibition in the Library of Congress about the Civil Rights Act and Movement. Presented as history. It isn't.

Tech fetishism wants there to be no negotiation on old values or regulation on damage done to individuals through economic reconfiguration.

People often internalise (economic) constraints that technology then modifies. In right circumstances, losing old values yields benefits.

Digital technology doesn't fix all problems in publishing or anywhere else. It does radically alter the economics though.

There is also a /lot/ about the development of the first academic journal (Transactions) in there & the fears of piracy surrounding it.

Was also struck by some of the contemporary comparisons: some were happy with the idea of universal library, so long as it was inaccessible.

Then, chapter nine is just amazing for the resistance mounted by publishers to the idea of the deposit library.

One of its most important features is looking at the evolution of copyright and its tensions with enlightenment dissemination.

I spent the journey reading Adrian Johns's /Piracy/, which is an amazing history that I think anyone interested in #openaccess should read.

Just travelling to Glasgow today after hospital discharge was a bit of a killer. Exhausted but packed train where I could only read was good

Marx on co-operatives, political power, solidarity and knowledge http://zpr.io/qzwb

Now officially North! Anyone in Glasgow, do come to the SPARC Europe OA and the Humanities roadshow tomorrow, featuring @eferwerda and me.

Sounds like the excellent @gbilder is off on one on #ShakingItUp14 - he's a seriously smart guy and well worth listening to.

Does extremism in that new government legislation have a specific tie to violence, or is anyone whose views are outside the norm "extreme"?

Train is late because driver is late because his train is late.

Graham Burchell – notes on the translation of ‘Society Must be Defended’ http://zpr.io/qzTy

The UK government wants to remove dialysis as a service prescribed on the NHS http://meve.io/1vEqOb0

Blimey. Just saw a @unilincoln advert in Cineworld Enfield.

Post-travel, post-hospital #inboxzero. Todo list is a different story.

The pie charts on your tax form this year put "teachers' pensions" into the "welfare" bracket to inflate it. http://ind.pn/1uVWvK6

Current working music http://wp.me/p4ZCSb-R2

I just wrote an open review on @theWinnower of @MikeTaylor's recent submission http://bit.ly/1rcHn7s #openaccess

Le séminaire Actualités Foucault: Foucault avec Marx (2014) http://zpr.io/q72e

We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Ursula K. Le Guin http://bit.ly/1zMwhv3

No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into.

Tom McCarthy reviews Gravity's Rainbow at 41 (& the re-released audiobook) http://nyti.ms/1uPzhFx

Above and beyond: “good” and “bad” surpluses in academic publishing http://bit.ly/1uPx9NT

Pierre Rivière – Infamie et Normalisation (2014) http://zpr.io/q7ZU

Yes! The NHS bill to roll back privitisation passed its next step!

Excitingly, I am tweaking the @openlibhums submission platform and ironing out final bugs. Almost ready.

OK, new @HardwayBros EP is amazing. http://btprt.dj/1xZ48Bu

UKIP are bad, yes, but that's a longer fight. More immediately urgent for today is the #nhsbill2015

Interesting that the Gates Foundation understands the value of open access but wanted to destroy open source/free software for whole career.

Also, another job at my alma mater: Lecturer in Modern/ Contemporary American Literature http://bit.ly/1qA2SEC

This review of The Imitation Game, which I was quite looking forward to seeing, is putting me off: http://bit.ly/1vss6G9

Unless you're someone who is able to sleep through alarm-clock volume beeps all night.

Fine art of timing hospital discharge: as soon as you're likely to not need to come back.

CFP: Digital Literary Studies http://zpr.io/qGuw

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web http://zpr.io/qGuD

Of course, many caveats to that interview. If you found yourself going "but...", then it's likely better covered in the book.

Why Isn't Academic Research Free to Everyone? - I'm interviewed by @hoodedu in The Atlantic http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/why-isnt-academic-research-free-to-everyone/382917/

She holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 33,333 ft - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

Call for papers: International Pynchon Week | Athens 2015 - http://www.ipw2015athens.com/

For a political economy of open education http://zpr.io/qGRC

Rheumatoid arthritis patients' BMI linked to ability to stay in remission http://zpr.io/qGRF

CfP: Feminist Early Career Academics http://zpr.io/qGR3

California Tells Court It Can't Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor - http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/17/3592964/how-californias-program-to-have-inmates-fight-wildfires-could-be-keeping-people-behind-bars/ < "inmate sourcing"

I mean, the rankings are pretty grim as they are and every month I consider unsubscribing from THE for perpetuating them.

But the data never just speak for themselves. I feel uneasy that such a corporate entity is now @ the heart of supposedly important rankings

Once symbolic capital like that is accrued it's far harder to lose than it was to gain. They'll claim it's "just providing data"...

That THE and Elsevier partnership is a prime example of how existing publishers gain prestige that comes with real material effects.

Anyone waiting for an email reply, please bear with me. Am in hospital and fairly unwell.

Call For Papers: Action Writing http://zpr.io/qRGg

Video of ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary - http://foucaultnews.com/2014/11/17/video-of-my-foucault-subjectivity-and-truth-lecture-at-nottingham-contemporary/

“@menzenski An example of open peer-review in the humanities: http://www.comicsgrid.com from @ubiquitypress #opencon2014” run by @ernestopriego

#defenduss – What I said to my Director of Human Resources - http://drstevewharton.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/defenduss-what-i-said-to-my-director-of-human-resources/

The Politics of the UK HE Marking Boycott, Part II http://zpr.io/qH8R

“@DrTomCrick Provocative lightning talk title: “Retract all bit-rotten publications” (See rel. paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0367)” #opencon2014

Goodbye again, USA! See you in January.

Sitting at the airport with CNN on. Feel I'm getting stupider by osmosis.

"This is not a hotel, it's an idea that travel should be brilliant."

Oh, sorry, I wanted a hotel.

Other highlight of #opencon2014 for me: someone is using my unsupervised automated JATS XML typesetter, meTypeset!

Thanks for having me #opencon2014 - sorry for leaving so immediately. Please do get in touch if you like what we're doing!

Let @pennyb ask her q! #opencon2014

We also have an early career researcher committee for @openlibhums btw. Email me if interested #opencon2014

Ubiquity Press's Journal of Open Research Software might be of interest to #opencon2014 @up_jors - also has a fun acronym to pronounce

Transactions of the Royal Society #oabingo #opencon2014

If we are made to compete for students, the logic goes, we have to offer exclusive perks to them. Disincentives openness. #OpenCon2014

In my view there is one huge block to big progress on open education: the privatisation of universities worldwide. #OpenCon2014

Pat Brown: "it's not somebody else's job to fix it". I am so down with this. #OpenCon2014

Should probably remember the etymology of "amateur" is "lover of" - someone who is passionate #OpenCon2014

Definitely outnumbered on the #hss front at #OpenCon2014. Hope @Protohedgehog is happy ;)

By my count, my #opencon2014 presentation will be my 30th conference/event talk this year.

Utopia & the End of the City 1-4 July 2015, Newcastle UK http://zpr.io/qtQ8

CFP: Time Served: Discipline and Punish 40 Years On (2014) http://zpr.io/qtLL

Sorry I won't be at the #opencon2014 reception tonight - am somewhat unwell and grabbing an early night. Looking forward to tomorrow though!

A warning to #opencon incoming delegates: Washington DC is getting pretty chilly!

Alan Bogg and Keith Ewing: Pensions dispute: Bullying tactics violate workers’ human rights - http://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2014/11/12/alan-bogg-and-keith-ewing-pensions-dispute-bullying-tactics-violate-workers-human-rights/

My new favourite library sign.

Korey Jackson writes of @openlibhums's "noble and provocative model" http://bit.ly/1vcaApx

Visualising the edited collection http://zpr.io/qtNR

Book Review: DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, edited by Matt Ratto and Megan Deibert http://zpr.io/qtNH

Meta-Analysis http://zpr.io/qtNt

"We are ROBOTIC DINOSAURS supplier". The only acceptable type of spam email.

‘Finding Foucault’: orders of discourse and cultures of the self (2014) http://zpr.io/qtnE

Linux Security Distros Compared: Tails vs. Kali vs. Qubes http://zpr.io/qtnx

Oof. There goes a SAGE Open price rise. It's still a very reasonable $195 but almost double the $99 rate.

"I do not hold the lecturers responsible but rather the university for advocating what is in essence union-busting". http://bit.ly/1pWC2Go

Gravely disappointed that almost all the dinosaur exhibits are closed at the Smithsonian. My inner big kid is sad.

“Because we care about our planet…” http://wp.me/p4ZCSb-QT

Imagine… The transnational co-operative university http://zpr.io/qgDh

Northampton loses £240,000 HLF bid after sale of Sekhemka | Museums Association - http://www.museumsassociation.org/news/12112014-northampton-hlf-bid-rejected

Diego Turcios: .Net goes open source http://zpr.io/q6v2

Hey Twitter, is there something about a comet happening today?

I wrote some thoughts on our conversation re "the crowd" & ethics that might be of interest to those at #TriangleSCI http://bit.ly/1pR76ak

Universities, DH, “the crowd”, and labour that looks like a game http://wp.me/p4ZCSb-QK

And Relax: Groupon Abandons Trademark Claim Against GNOME http://zpr.io/q6Le

Publishing makerspace site, from #TriangleSCI http://bit.ly/10VD4X1

Oh dear. Not anticipating a speedy takeoff this morning.

Foucault Resources – page on this blog now updated http://zpr.io/q6x5

Two initial docs from HEFCE ind. review on role of metrics in research assessment http://bit.ly/1tDQBco http://bit.ly/1tDQBcp #TriangleSCI

Suspect @CharlotteRock would be interested in the type of DH portal/infrastructure provision that @pfyfe is discussing at #TriangleSCI

Community/Collaboration plugin for Wordpress, Commons in a Box http://bit.ly/1sAm1kL #TriangleSCI

Other conferences: you have a new benchmark for catering #TriangleSCI

333 Km/h Rocket-Powered Bicycle Sets New Speed Record http://zpr.io/q6Gh

Reason, Risk, and Reward: Models for Libraries and Other Stakeholders in an Evolving Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem http://bit.ly/1v0qq79

GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon http://zpr.io/q6UE

When you write a blog post then don't post it because you can foresee the tedious polarised debate unfolding regardless of pre-empting it.

#TriangleSCI back in full flow for full day number two!

Publisher MakerSpace group at #TriangleSCI thought about "publishing in 2030". That's an age in tech. but not long in social academic terms.

The crowd / the masses / the public / quantity. All have some political connotations... #TriangleSCI

Call by @foundhistory for #TriangleSCI teams to consider what "the crowd" means to them. It's an interesting term. What are connotations?

Saturday 6 December – Para-Academic Handbook Launch in London, UK http://zpr.io/qPEf

Some thoughts on the status of orphan works under current copyright setup by @hoodedu http://bit.ly/1AVB7ud (mentions @CILIPinfo)

Nicky Morgan's own degree, jurisprudence, could easily be classed as "humanities" btw.

Literary-critical reviews of Mr Men books http://bzfd.it/1uTRdRY

MT @Independent: Education Secretary tells teenagers: If you want a job, drop humanities http://ind.pn/1GIytZh < oh, great

Foucault’s Risks http://bit.ly/1ATL1N2

"The retreat" alters time: short spans of time but the creative constraint means that amazing things are done #TriangleSCI @foundhistory

. @foundhistory traces backdrop of #TriangleSCI to other retreats like "One Week, One Tool". External spaces of reflection and making.

. @foundhistory speaking of the importance of transcending the cult of personal productivity in academia #TriangleSCI

Efficiency http://zpr.io/qPny

The Anthropocene: Cities, Politics, Law as Geological Agents http://zpr.io/qPnA

Had a wonderful opening evening at #trianglesci already. Looks to be a great event.

Chance of making this flight connection: getting slimmer.

Historyonics: Big Data, Small Data and Meaning by @TimHitchcock - http://historyonics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/big-data-small-data-and-meaning_9.html?m=1

Post-publication book reviews are part of the scholarly genealogy of validation, but little incentive for senior faculty to write them.

Night Time Eiffel Tower Photos Are a Copyright Violation http://zpr.io/qUji

(Last RT of that review :))

"Why has no one been appointed the winner of Lance Armstrong's seven tours?" Ouch. http://bit.ly/1tTHYje

Man in charge of nation’s finances struggling with concept of ‘half’ http://newsthump.com/2014/11/07/man-in-charge-of-nations-finances-struggling-with-concept-of-half/

Unlikely.

Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted http://zpr.io/GQvc

ResearchGate. Sounds like a publication ethics scandal.

Just to repeat: irony is not dead! My book on open access will be available open access.

Book Review by @jwyg of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/11/07/book-review-open-access-and-the-humanities-contexts-controversies-and-the-future-by-martin-eve/ #CHS14 #openaccess

Bats Can Jam Each Other's Ultrasonic Signals http://zpr.io/GQhP

I think the "predatory publishers" issue is both overrepresented and unfairly tagged on OA. Many sub/sale-based "predators" #chs14

For those interested, we're running another Mellon-funded investigation into collective funding for hums OA: https://www.openlibhums.org #chs14

Discoverability for OA books: DOAB, OAPEN platform integrate with lib. systems, like SFX. MARCXML metadata. #chs14

Will be interested to see what a new usage study for monographs might look like. All measures are flawed proxies at present, IMO. #chs14

Also: The Influence of Open Access on Monograph Sales : The experience at Amsterdam UP http://bit.ly/1skxJ2O #chs14 via @ronaldsnijder

We're also expecting report from the UK's Higher Education Funding Council on their findings on monograph economics early next year #chs14

OAPEN-UK study is already looking at economic effects of OA for monographs: http://bit.ly/nJ0xLu #chs14

"Too many monographs are being published". In other words, greater desire to publish for accreditation than there is to read. #chs14

Would say that there's quite some intersection with @jisc #openacess pathfnder projects here: http://bit.ly/1skvqN2 #chs14

Mellon giving planning grants to three institutions to investigate allocation mechanisms for author-side payments #chs14

Digital, accessible medium, new standards for peer review, social aspects of tenure criteria identified by Mellon as important areas #chs14

Useful lesser known ruby Regexp methods http://zpr.io/GWWh

Journée Foucault Paris 8: Actualité d’une pensée trente ans après (2014) - http://foucaultnews.com/2014/11/07/journee-foucault-paris-8-actualite-dune-pensee-trente-ans-apres-2014/

"The average list price of ebooks was considerably higher than of print titles". Some interesting stats: http://bit.ly/1wA9Ppg

Taxi driver: "you here with that damned library conference?"

Me: "Errr, maybe" #CHS14

Hundreds of PhD students chasing every early career post http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/hundreds-of-phd-students-chasing-every-early-career-post/2016799.article < wrongly implies that this is just the case at Russell grp

The Politics of the UK HE Marking Boycott http://zpr.io/GWgm

Fascinating paper on hidden kernel core at the heart of the English language: The Latent Structure of Dictionaries http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0129

Discussing/annotating The History Manifesto and the open access effect(?) http://wp.me/p4ZCSb-Qz

Dutch "universities will be preparing for a situation whereby [Elsevier] journal subscriptions are not renewed" http://bit.ly/13J7w8w

Had a great time speaking at #CMU today; thanks to @CMKeithW for hosting me! Now off to #chs14.

Bowled away by the degree of discussion around #historymanifesto, including MBS response http://bit.ly/13J5PrY -- #OA has to be a factor

Language Nerd http://zpr.io/GByU

The British Museum Will Now Let You 3D Print Copies Of Its Artifacts - http://gizmodo.com/the-british-museum-will-now-let-you-3d-print-copies-of-1654077136

Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction; 29th April 2015 - http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/59220

Oh hurrah, Delta have oversold my flight! Now into the bargaining phase. (Not good on jetlag. #rats)

Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? http://zpr.io/Gc38

Another point about my OA book. I'm donating any author royalties from the paid copies to Arthritis Research UK.

We’re a small learned society charging £25. What are we doing wrong?: OA for small society journals http://wp.me/p4ZCSb-Qu

“@RickyPo Hacking Open Access: Sustainable publication for Humanities http://goo.gl/KBjbmc” < clarification: we're aiming for no fees

Job: Associate Lecturer A: London Semester - The Twentieth-Century British Novel at Birkbeck, University of London - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJW753/associate-lecturer-a-london-semester-the-twentieth-century-british-novel/

20 days until my book on open access in the humanities is published. PDF will be available OA with CC BY-SA license. http://amzn.to/1wRyLY6

Virgin Galactic is building a thing for rich people to do: pay $250,000 to not feel the weight of the world. http://wrd.cm/10akfiH