And that's not even accounting for the challenges of citation parsing without semantic markup data etc. And disciplinary practices.

Problem with that type of study is that it assumes it can capture all research outputs. Same with metricised assessment exercises.

Haven't yet read but... https://x.com/MaxCRoser/status/793206281871904768

This week is mostly a visit to Portugal to talk about OLH. Should be nice just as winter arrives here in the UK!

Death and the University http://zpr.io/Pgkpj

notes on the abolition of the #realworldacademic http://zpr.io/PgrE7

Anyone have any cues on the best starting point for academic writing on erasure poetry?

MJ - Thriller (Homero Espinosa Dub Tool) https://soundcloud.com/homeroespinosa/mj-thriller-homero-espinosa-dub-tool

Kicking out the jams with another issue of @AlluviumJournal! Published today. https://www.alluvium-journal.org/

Michel Foucault and the history of economic thought (2015) http://zpr.io/Pg3Sj

Have got that post-conference buzz of wanting to be able to write everything simultaneously. Loads of ideas for Aesthetics of Metadata book.

Otherwise great day just ruined by the inhumanity of seeing someone in a "drowned refugee" Halloween outfit. My God.

My main focus tomorrow: redaction as metadata as genre in @DrBlacklock's /I'm Jack/.

First outing for a chapter from my in-progress "Aesthetics of Metadata" book tomorrow in Birkbeck's Keynes Library. https://literarynetworks.wordpress.com/programme/

Bloomsbury Research Lectures http://zpr.io/PguFr

It must be parody performance art. Please.

My word.

Turns out that they would! "All literary research [...] should be [for] generating profits for some enterprising sector of the economy".

Just received an unsolicited email that began: "I am a neoliberal literary researcher". I thought, nobody would really say that, would they?

#OAWeek2016 talks all done. But, on Saturday, I'll be speaking at @LitNetworks2016 at @birkbeck_eh on metadata in @DrBlacklock's I'm Jack.

notes on the reserve army of academic labour http://zpr.io/PgEsn

speculative collections http://zpr.io/PgEsP

Updates on the Dyn DDoS http://zpr.io/PgEsU

Thanks to @ernestopriego for organising my talk this evening. I had a ball. Not so much speaking as dancing.

Heading off to City, University of London now for #OLHone talk. Looking forward to catching up with people. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-new-model-for-open-access-the-open-library-of-humanities-one-year-on-tickets-28622035278

Wrote a small script to convert Birkbeck's CMS's event system into ICS for import into Google Calendar: https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/BBKCal

Will also feature Paul's blueberry cookies https://x.com/BIROnbbk/status/791541475922350080

Some recent articles about the accelerated academy http://zpr.io/PgZC5

Tomorrow at City, University of London I'll be speaking about the OLH's 1st year, our plans, and demonstrating our new typesetting software.

Difficult to answer concisely. Many different converging origins across a vast political spectrum seeking divergent outcomes.

Although it felt slightly hostile, favourite question at talk today (re open access) was: "where has this [oa] all come from?"

Resource: R graph gallery http://zpr.io/PgR2d

International recruitment and TEF: modelling the Amber warnings http://zpr.io/PgR2J

#OAWeek2016 My book Open Access & the Humanities free (or cheap paperback w/ royalties to charity) from @cambridgeup http://meve.io/oahums

Government says that adding 50% more flights to Heathrow will "help to further reduce noise & carbon emissions". Err https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-decides-on-new-runway-at-heathrow?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=airport&utm_term=benefits_economic&utm_content=graphics,%20pr

alternate futures, usable pasts http://zpr.io/Pgnv8

Survived my first overseas talk since serious illness today. Then met with group on London celebrating great PhD viva result. @CatherineFlay

Ok, public domain dedication! https://x.com/gluejar/status/790537304502857728

A good point. When someone else tries to claim the copyright. https://x.com/christof77/status/790535127994511360

Yes quite! https://x.com/dkernohan/status/790534077216649220

So guess 2 situations are: you CC0 license and then transfer copyright to a publisher who gets hacked off. Or you didn't understand CC0.

Because copyright holder would have to take it to court. But that only happens on violation. And there is nothing to violate.

Overheard a session today noting that CC0 has not been tested in court. Not sure in what circumstance that could occur unless dual licensing

Turning the inside out http://zpr.io/P6B8k

Had two questions in last week about why @openlibhums journals are not in @DOAJplus. We've submitted and are awaiting their reply!

Good work @lawsonstu!

Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing report shows £2.5m saving to UK HE sector from open-access offsetting http://www.ctp.bbk.ac.uk/2016/10/24/birkbeck-centre-for-technology-and-publishing-report-shows-2-5m-saving-to-uk-he-sector-from-open-access-offsetting/

Waiting for my Eurostar to board. As appealing as the Open Science conference might be, alternative 10:14 to Disneyland is tempting...

Literary Networks talk should be particularly fun. It's first public presentation of a chapter from draft book on aesthetics of metadata.

Finally, on Saturday I'll be speaking at the "Literary Networks and Cultural Collaborations" event at @birkbeck_eh https://literarynetworks.wordpress.com/programme/

And on Thursday I'll be speaking at City University: https://epriego.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/the-open-library-of-humanities-one-year-on-a-chat-with-martin-paul-eve/

We also have three events at Birkbeck for Open Access week (including info on the new OA fund): http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/BIROn/open-access-week-2016

(I hope other presenters will forgive me, but I'm not going to be able to attend the whole event; don't want to overdo it on my first trip.)

Tomorrow, my first talk abroad since having my stroke earlier this year. On open peer review in the humanities. https://openaccess.be/2016/10/12/practical-information-open-science-on-the-move/

Chemical-Releasing Bike Lock Causes Vomiting To Deter Thieves - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9HAgYeCdxf0/chemical-releasing-bike-lock-causes-vomiting-to-deter-thieves < hmm. Isn't this a chemical weapon?

Several Sites Including Twitter, Spotify, PayPal, NYTimes Suffering Outage -- Dyn DNS Under DDoS Attack [Update] http://zpr.io/P6r5K

(That's if Twitter is showing you images. Seems to be under attack at the moment...)

It's Friday! Cheers! Here I am with a lovely paper copy of my new (open-access) book! http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/530

A Cost-Effective Large LOCKSS Box http://zpr.io/P6FDj

Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education http://zpr.io/P6DkW

Started writing that book in 2012. It was quite a painful process. My favourite chapters are those on Sarah Waters & Ishmael Reed.

The peer-reviewed book is gold OA and CC BY 4.0 licensed so you can read for free online. But the paperback is also affordable at just £16.

Brexit Trade Plan Involves Selling Beef To Japan, Where British Beef Is Banned. So incompetent. https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/brexit-trade-plan-involves-selling-beef-to-a-count?utm_term=.ad2Yjp9aL&ref=mobile_share#.faMPWRmqj

Come and hear about accessing the new OA fund and how to make sure your work is REFable https://x.com/BIROnbbk/status/789014999406669824

Reading Pynchon #13 http://zpr.io/P6uKv

Passionate intervention from William St Clair at the #humanitiesnow event for open access in the humanities.

Oasis snubbed Trainspotting soundtrack thinking film 'was about trainspotters'. LOL. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/19/oasis-trainspotting-soundtrack-noel-gallagher-danny-boyle

Kees Cook: Security bug lifetime http://zpr.io/P6AHF

CFP: Digital Humanities 2017 http://zpr.io/P6m8P

Or, as I call it, a "scathing cover letter". https://x.com/jntod/status/788294287729582080

Oh well, rant over. (But I'm not doing major revisions on the basis of that report.)

Feels to me like an academic digging in to defend things s/he doesn't really know about beyond his/her own experience in a university.

That is just the first sentence of the review. And it doesn't really get better.

Finally, this peer reviewer doesn't understand Google Scholar and thinks it provides access.

"Nurse, scalpel. Oh, wait, I just need to pop down my local library to check something. And then wait four days for interlibrary loan."

Reader also assumes that it's a nicety to have access in your own time. Clinicians don't have all the on-site access they need.

We could ship all this stuff around using interlibrary loan, of course, but that's a v. slow & expensive way in the age of the internet.

Where to begin? Because I'm sure your local library has all the latest £60 research monographs and obscure serials subscriptions.

Peer reviewer: "Academic research is at least as accessible to the general public as are trade books thanks to Google Scholar & libraries."

That's a bit how I felt about /The Master/ as a reader TBH. (Half joking: I do want to read /The Testament of Mary/ now).

Saw Colm Toibin tonight at Birkbeck's Man Booker event. He described writing novels as a little like root canal work.

Pleased to say that I will be joining the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) working group. BOAI 1 of 3 core definitions of OA in 2002.

Wasted Time? The Higher Education and Research Bill in Committee http://zpr.io/P6aGs

Saw /Inferno/ (2016). I quite like a good Dan Brown thriller. (Sorry.)

Other than that. Yeah, they're doing all they can to help.

By driving a wedge between universities and students through tuition fees. By allowing con-artist asset strippers to setup their own unis.

By introducing a nonsensical, flawed evaluation of "teaching" that's nothing to do with teaching.

Yeah. They want to help. By banning foreign students except at some universities. By making universities plan for their own bankruptcy.

Willetts says: "The government, then, clearly understands that there is a problem and is doing its best to help."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/16/university-funding-brexit-eu-freedom-of-movement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Just seen the cover for the forthcoming @gylphi volume on Tom McCarthy edited by @djbduncan and it's a thing of beauty. (Out soon...)

Transitions 7: New Directions in Comics Studies http://zpr.io/P6jcN

"Brexit means Brexit". No extra money for NHS, Theresa May tells health chief - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/14/no-extra-money-for-nhs-theresa-may-tells-health-chief?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

One of the most pernicious parts of tuition fee structures, I think. Pits financial security of educational institutions against students.

But, on the other hand, I also take point that universities are badly incentivized to spend on facilities over staff.

For one, HE sector v unstable for future at moment. VCs will want to build surpluses to meet future grimness.

Not persuaded that there isn't tension between UCU inflationary pay claim and NUS call for no inflationary fee rises. I support both.

CFP: New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies / Deadline: 28 April 2017 http://zpr.io/P6jUj

Cutting Off Heads A review of Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet (2016) http://zpr.io/P6ZFy

Reading Pynchon #12 http://zpr.io/P6ZFA

Market nuances http://zpr.io/P6pgK

Never Abolish Chance: The Concrete Poetry Conference at SBU http://zpr.io/P6pgy

Brightest and Best http://zpr.io/P679n

HEFCE developing next REF: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2016/Name,110463,en.html?mc_cid=af7a7f5785&mc_eid=0a1783b6bf

Could the care we need come from the internet of things? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/14/internet-of-things-elderly-relatives < no. Next question.

Google Creates AI Program That Uses Reasoning To Navigate the London Tube http://zpr.io/P6q8m

Making Friends http://zpr.io/P6q8M

Foucault with Marx (2016) http://zpr.io/P6GLm

English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle http://zpr.io/P6G9x

Announcement: PressForward Workshops at UC Berkeley http://zpr.io/P6G9X

Love these spam emails I am getting that promise to "Vulcanize your love life".

Not sure about that, but good to have a high standard for which to reach! https://x.com/pressfuturist/status/786263391103021056

Fairness, Social Mobility & HE Markets - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2016/10/12/fairness-social-mobility-he-markets/

Slow. Hand. Clap. UK 'may still have to pay into EU even after Brexit'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37627308

Owing £2m, south London state school (that is, "academy") to be stripped of management - http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/11/owing-2m-durand-academy-state-school-in-south-londonto-be-stripped-of-management?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Software Art and Emulation http://zpr.io/P6UAN

At the edges of academic copyright http://zpr.io/P6UAY

Resource: Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects http://zpr.io/P6UAs

You definitely voted to lose £66 billion a year, May tells Britain - http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/you-definitely-voted-to-lose-66-billion-a-year-may-tells-britain-20161011115152

Investigating OA monograph services – Final report | Jisc scholarly communications - https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2016/10/11/investigating-oa-monograph-services-final-report/

Norway rejects Liam Fox request for free trade deal taskforce https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/11/norway-rejects-uk-request-for-joint-trade-taskforce-report-eea-eu << it's all going so well!

Letter from eye clinic saying I missed a test in March. Me: "yeah, sorry about that. Was having a stroke."

Despite their budgets, only 3 out of these 8 people are getting the recommended 150 mins of exercise. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/11/do-you-spend-a-lot-on-fitness-seven-people-reveal-their-exercise-budget

In case you missed it earlier, OLH is now supported by over 200 libraries! https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/10/11/olh-now-supported-by-over-200-institutions-thanks-to-the-libraries-of-the-seven-irish-universities/

You, too, could move from a zero-APC situation to a pay-De-Gruyter model!

De Gruyter systematically targeting journals at the Open Library of Humanities to try to lure them away. Good luck!

"This is a conservative and retrograde step" https://x.com/HistoryWO/status/785758487431245824

. @PeterFifield and I wrote about our visit to see "No's Knife" for the @birkbeck_eh blog http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2016/10/11/martin-eve-and-peter-fifield-on-nos-knife-at-the-old-vic/ #samuelbeckett #theatre

Two sessions of the Public Bill Committee for the Higher Education & Research Bill today at 9.25am and 2pm. http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/2560631e-3191-48be-be8d-0e13748bf399?mc_cid=a5eca5ac9a&mc_eid=0a1783b6bf

Big OLH announcement tomorrow.

Metabolism http://zpr.io/PnBDj

Also, @amcgettigan bringing the laughs with "the nominal minister for HE"!

"Before June, it was necessary to watch the Treasury to understand HE policy, now it’s the Prime Minister’s Office setting the agenda"

Students & Net migration targets - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2016/10/10/students-net-migration-targets/

Annotran alpha users: afraid we're going to wipe the database on Thurs to introduce breaking changes. Apologies. @elotroalex @readywriting

NHS is most widely held concern of UK adults, survey finds - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/09/nhs-is-most-widely-held-concern-of-uk-adults-survey-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

The grimness of British politics in recent months gives me no hope that, whatever depths to which Trump sinks, he might still get the vote.

Reading Pynchon #11 http://zpr.io/PnVZv

Ridiculous hipster manchild on my train refused to swap seats to let mother sit with her daughter because "he was ok by the window".

I'll be attending the morning of The Third Convention for Higher Education next Saturday. https://heconvention2.wordpress.com/the-3rd-convention/

performance information and data-driven academic anxiety http://zpr.io/PnviZ

CFP: The seventeenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle (2016-2017) http://zpr.io/Pnvip

Welcome to modern Britain: Academics must show research to government before publishing. http://schoolsweek.co.uk/academics-must-show-research-to-government-two-days-before-publishing-say-new-dfe-rules/

I do have some more critical thoughts about the adaptation and its choices, but saving those for a review post.

Turned out that @peterfifield and @heresfinn were also there!

Saw @lisadwan's /No's Knife/ today. An intense feat of performance, memory, and endurance. Strange to see Beckett's voices so bodied, too.

Copy-wrongs and the invisible subsidy - the view from India http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/delhi-high-court-judgement-banning-order-photocopy-extracts-of-books-and-journals-3069347/

As expected, @FionaCandlin was fantastic. Such a rich tapestry of culture uncovered by her work; part of a richly deserved huge AHRC grant.

Looking forward to the first of our graduate lectures for the year at @BirkBeckArtsRes - @FionaCandlin on "Micromuseology"!

Doesn't it violate anti-discrimination laws for the government to specify which nationalities are allowed to work on a public project?

I was interviewed on "excellence" (and its challenges) for a Norwegian news piece http://www.forskerforum.no/jakt-pa-excellence-skadar-forskinga/

Attending a lunchtime talk in Birkbeck's Centre for Medical Humanities: "What is 'critical' about the critical medical humanities?"

The British Communist Historical Novel seminar, October 12th http://zpr.io/Pndnj

I have a todo-list item "AC and LDL event" in a couple of weeks' time. If anyone has plausible ideas what this might be, I'm all ears.

Generous Thinking: Introduction http://zpr.io/Pnidd

"Embrace centre ground, May tells Tories"... The "centre ground" now including forcing firms to identify non-British workers?

Book Review: Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten by Meg Leta Jones http://zpr.io/Pn5k7

writing about academic labour http://zpr.io/Pn5kG

Panel on Software Preservation at iPRES http://zpr.io/Pn5kf

Doing badly in TEF: 1. reduction of fee cap; 2. withdrawal of right to recruit overseas students. Leads to financial crises & "market exit".

Same institutions that are financially penalised by TEF will also feel the pinch here. https://x.com/JMorganTHE/status/783294330727456768

Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge http://zpr.io/Pn2NY

A two-tier Tier 4 system will damage the entire UK HE sector http://zpr.io/Pn2Ns

Future of Text Presentation http://zpr.io/Pn2TY

Kees Cook: security things in Linux v4.7 http://zpr.io/Pn2Ts

Hang on, for years the Tories berated Labour for not prioritising deficit above all else, saying it was irresponsible. Now they will, too?

Reading Pynchon #10 http://zpr.io/PnrtL

Something about Ferrante that sounds depressing is doing the rounds. Not going to read it to keep some faith in humanity.

Generous Thinking: The University and the Public Good http://zpr.io/PnrPG

Spent the morning reading Rick Rylance's new book, /Literature and the Public Good/. Review forthcoming...

So I'll now have to waste time arguing with them about it. Oh well.

Just got a reschedule letter that is seven months since my last appointment. Clinician said "it's important we see you in three months".

One of the most frustrating things about the NHS is when clerical staff re-schedule appts w/out a clinical understanding.

Today is my first official day of being a Prof. Congratulating myself on not dying between Feb and now with a pack of chocolate buttons.