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Academia (165)
- On (not) using AI detectors
- Too much publishing...
- Some example academic book proposal forms in case they help
- Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
- On citations, AI, and 'not reading'
- My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup
- A successful Philip Leverhulme Prize application in the field of languages and literature from 2019
- My academic year in review
- Preservation as a Memento Mori and Matter of Ethics
- A year of looking in on academia
- My 2023 year in review
- My 2022 year in review
- The UK's department for health and preprints
- The politics of peer review and preprints in the real world
- Open peer review and its rhythms
- Moving On: My Infrastructural Turn
- Did you know that you can deposit the version of record of Bloomsbury Academic book chapters in your institutional repository?
- Input-Output
- Last year I spent 506 hours answering emails. How I hope to do less of it this year.
- On PhD vivas and being a supervisor
- My 2021 year in review
- Citing Pirate Artifacts
- Why 'Lower Tier' Journals Might Contain Better Work
- Paper Thin: moving on to Chapter Four and seven propositions
- A Bibliography on "The Interesting"/"I'm Interested In"
- Thinking about UK Ph.D. examinations
- Birkbeck: The Oldest University English Department in the World? (and a new Oscar Wilde lecture at Birkbeck)
- Reading Peer Review is published today!
- Resolutions, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Parts of Academia
- An anecdote on editing
- Some reflections on the professionalization of my disciplines
- My 2020 year in review
- On the ethics of studying pirate cultures
- Retractions against racial discrimination
- Rapid-response grants and disciplinary boundaries
- Some reflections on the politics of open peer review
- On academic journals as clubs
- The Edited Collection and its Discontents
- Academic books I'm writing
- Writing a data management plan
- My 2019 in review
- An irony of the 'hierarchy of journals'
- I have won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- When infrastructural support clashes with DORA and good research assessment practices
- Instrumental reading
- Thoughts on academic prestige and institutional solvency
- The supervisory frustrations of AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships
- How long does it take to examine a PhD thesis?
- My 2018 in review
- Who does the work of implementing DORA?
- My 2017 academic year in review
- On ECRs, long-form-outputs, and the non-portability of outputs for REF
- Mediating forms and free thinking (or "on selecting journals")
- Judging the painting (research) without the frame (the journal)
- On responses and rebuttals in the discipline of English literature
- My 2016 academic year in review
- More on my experience with Open Book Publishers
- Now accepting proposals to 'New Horizons in Contemporary Writing' series
- Of LaTeX and labour
- Why Open Book Publishers for my next book?
- Accreditation and research-assessment practices (on DORA and the Tickell review)
- Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing
- Ph.D. criterion: to 'merit publication'
- The methodology of literary taxonomy: HARKing and p-hacking
- My 2015 academic year in review
- It is no use trying to replace the Impact Factor
- Academia.edu’s peer-review experiments
- Fix some of your writing tics with a bit of technology
- The link between teaching, tuition fees and research publication economics
- It is never a good time to start a new journal
- Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
- My 2014 round-up
- The tension between dissemination and measurement
- Universities, DH, “the crowd”, and labour that looks like a game
- Define: impact
- My short additional response to the HEFCE metrics consultation
- Ann Wordsworth, Critical Theory, Faculty Contingency and the University in Ruins
- What do we mean by the "standing" and "reach" of research?
- What's it like to publish in SAGE Open?
- Dear Publisher (#2)
- My 2013 academic year in review
- Dear "top journal": 1 year and 4 months to review is too long
- Three reasons why I think journal prestige is a broken system
- What's "open" got to do with it?
- Publication: "Gatekeepers in a digital wasteland", The Author
- Is what I do "digital humanities"?
- What is it like to publish in the journal 'Neo-Victorian Studies'?
- Using git in my writing workflow
- Joining the UK National Monographs Strategy Expert Panel
- Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats?
- Publication: 'Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review'
- The Future of Peer Review
- Conference Paper: "The Future of Peer Review", University of Sussex, 14th March 2013, 12-2pm
- Moving on from Sussex and joining the University of Lincoln
- On ORCID, accreditation structures and altmetrics
- Reviewing with Kindness
- On Academic Blogging
- On the Impurity of the Humanities and Critical University Studies
- The Viva
- By the time you read this, I will be...
- Keeping up with Research (in response to @PlashingVole)
- The Final Week
- On Blog Inequality in Scholarly Research
- More unpaid academic positions and apparent "culture of entitlement"
- Mythbusting: "A Proposed List — 60 Things Journal Publishers Do"
- Post-Submission Weirdness
- The undervalued book collection and peer review
- Signing over copyright vs. licensing your journal articles
- Submitted my Ph.D! (in memory of my grandfather, John Gray [10/02/1920 - 14/06/2012])
- Sussex-Southampton Initiative: SuShI. An interdisciplinary fusion.
- The Ontological Problems of Contemporary Fiction Studies are Actually its Ontological Prerequsites
- Excursions Journal Vol 3: Launch Party
- My day as a Higher Ed researcher
- Finishing a UK Ph.D. within 3 years
- Wikipedia Stats Visualized
- Doctoral Thesis Editing: Cutting Words
- Copyright and academia, particularly for Ph.Ds
- Wordpress for Academics
- Doing a Ph.D using only free, open source software
- First draft of my Ph.D is done!
- Protecting Your Assets: Backing up your Academic Work
- 2012: Year of the PhD Completion / Guardian Higher Education Top 10 posts of 2011
- Forthcoming workshops: academic websites & protecting your assets!
- Guest post on Google Scholar Citations
- A dissenting voice on #AcBoWriMo
- Adorno, Benjamin and Wittgenstein (!): knowledge is not property
- Academia, EdTech, Blogging and Twitter: Enough with the Meta, Already?
- Is it worth presenting at postgraduate conferences?
- Immanent critique of closed access publication
- Guest post at PhD2Published
- Postgraduate Publishing
- Conference Paper: "Autosubversive Practices in Academic Publishing", UKSG, 2012-03-26
- Britain or America for the PhD in English? Part 2
- I have nothing to do with this "dissertation writing service"
- Britain or America for the PhD in English?
- Angry Young Academics: The "Directors' Cut"
- Excursions, Vol. 2, Issue 1: Virus (2011)
- Upcoming Workshop: Inbox zero and tech-task lists: getting things done
- Academic Businesss Cards
- Using Twitter for Research
- Guarding your academic ideas
- Guardian Q&A Summary: Life After a PhD
- Live Q&A: Life after a PhD [Friday 15th April 2011, 13.00-16.00]
- Publication: 'Review of Joe Moran, Interdisciplinarity 2nd edition', Rupkatha, 3, 1 (April 2011)
- How not to apply to give a conference paper
- Speaking plainly
- Exactly half-way through my PhD timetable
- Upcoming workshop: "Using Twitter for Research"
- Getting Published in Academia
- On #PhDchat: Call for Collaboration/History, Overview, Themes and Response
- A Statistical History of UK Pynchon Doctorates
- What has social media ever done for me?
- The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish
- Sussex Research Hive Seminars
- Using Producteev to manage overbearing Inboxes
- Converting Zotero Documents to Mendeley
- Researchers, Libraries and Publishers: What does the future hold?
- A few notes on some of Jacques Derrida's writings
- Problematic indexing in Paul Rabinow's edited Foucault volume, "Ethics"
- Plagiarism by Semiotext(e) translations?
- Applying for AHRC BGP Doctoral Grants
- Using tech to help with structure
- Undergraduates in the British Library reading rooms
- British Library usage made clear
- Humanities Map
Artificial Intelligence (11)
- My View on AI and University-Level English Literature
- On (not) using AI detectors
- Claude Code can consume, transmit, and compromise your .env files even if you tell it not to
- On citations, AI, and 'not reading'
- Work in progress: 'Rage Against the Machine: The Politics of Open Access, Large Language Models, and the Reaction Against Open'
- Boycott Routledge over AI training? It's probably in the contract...
- AI and Open Cultural Licensing (remarks to be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI In the Communications Circuit)
- Creating a voice-activated AI responder in Python
- The second OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: Natural language generation and authorial labour
- The real ethics of AI are about the labour underpinning it
- On neural networks and health data privacy
Conferences (90)
- In conversation with Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
- AI and Open Cultural Licensing (remarks to be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI In the Communications Circuit)
- ‘Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely’: Serious Openings and Subversive Epigraphs in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
- Questions and Answers from UKSG on Opening the Future
- Text of Digital Library Futures keynote (Cambridge, 21st May 2019)
- Questions about APC-free models
- These games we play (in ScholComms)
- 'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
- Vint Cerf on Digital Preservation at AAUP 2015
- Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel: Late Pynchon's Academics
- Applications now open for OpenCon 2015
- Dissemination and Assessment: Open Access, Reputation and Economics
- "A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
- Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
- Online p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ webinar to talk open access with @mweller and me: Tuesday 16th December 3pm
- Here by the Sea and Sand: A Symposium on Quadrophenia
- Alluvium 2nd Birthday Panel Event
- Symposium on David Mitchell: 9th May, London
- Designing an open source OA toolchain for books
- SXSW Panel: Vote to get Open Access on the agenda
- Reports from the frontline of humanities OA in Japan
- On International Pynchon Week
- Speaking at SPARC Japan
- Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats?
- Modernist Intimacies conference
- Futurity, Books, Marx, Labour
- The Future of Peer Review
- Conference Paper: "The Future of Peer Review", University of Sussex, 14th March 2013, 12-2pm
- Conference Paper: "Too many goddamn echoes": Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's /Point Omega/', Birkbeck
- Conference Paper: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and Open Access Publishing" (Lincoln University)
- CFP: Feminism;; Influence;; Inheritance
- Conference paper: 'Opening children's eyes': Overloaded Forms and the Didactic Function (Westminster University)
- Weird Council: The first international conference on the works of China Miéville #mieville2012 (storify)
- Conference Panel: Pynchon Now (Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar)
- Conference on China Miéville: Weird Council
- Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and 21st-Century Utopianism (presentation)
- Teaching Post-Millenial Fiction Conference archive
- International Pynchon Week 2013 Conference: Website and CFP
- Sussex-Southampton Initiative: SuShI. An interdisciplinary fusion.
- Day 2 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
- Thinking Feeling Conference at the University of Sussex
- Day 1 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
- Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Write-Up: Martin Amis' Money (2012-04-28)
- Teaching Post-Millennial Literature: A HEA and University of Brighton Symposium
- Video of my #uksglive presentation on the future of academic publishing
- The future of academic publishing Q&A
- UKSG Conference: photos and slides
- Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, Materialism and Negative Dialectics, 28-29 May, 2012, Northumbria University
- Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and Twenty-First-Century Utopianism, 16-18 July, 2012, University of Lincoln
- First Fictions Festival at Sussex
- First Fictions launch weekend: 20-22 January, 2012
- Forthcoming workshops: academic websites & protecting your assets!
- Open Access Week at the University of Sussex
- Conference Paper: "Autosubversive Practices in Academic Publishing", UKSG, 2012-03-26
- Conference Paper: 'It sure's hell looked like war': Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld', 2010-06-09, University of Lublin
- Thoughts from "Calling All Agents": The first symposium on the work of Tom McCarthy
- Enslavement Conference, Portsmouth, 17th June 2011
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 3
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 2
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 1
- CFP: Excursions Journal: States of Emergence, States of Emergency
- Conference paper: Geo-specificity of Enlightenment in Mason & Dixon, 2011-06-24, University of Glasgow
- Upcoming Workshop: Inbox zero and tech-task lists: getting things done
- William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Diane Coyle and Mark Stevenson at the British Library
- Using Twitter for Research
- David Foster Wallace's The Pale King: Bonnie Nadell and Michael Pietsch at Foyles
- Live Q&A: Life after a PhD [Friday 15th April 2011, 13.00-16.00]
- How not to apply to give a conference paper
- Delay to Report on First UKPN Meeting
- Conference paper: “The Driver's Whip is an evil thing”: Enlightenment as Mass Enslavement in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, 2011-06-17, University of Portsmouth
- Upcoming workshop: "Using Twitter for Research"
- Picture This: Postcards Exhibition
- Conference Paper: "The F Word", 2011-04-01, University of Durham
- UK Pynchon Network: Site Up and Programme Announced
- Richard Stallman at the University of Sussex
- Russell Hoban in Conversation with Will Self at the British Library
- CFP: First Conference of the UK Academic Pynchon Network
- Judith Butler at Sussex on Arendt, Cohabitation, and the Dispersion of Sovereignty
- Picture this: Postcards Competition
- Sussex Research Hive Seminars
- Notes and Presentation from my Open Access talk
- Speaking of Open Access...
- Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond Text
- First Fictions conference
- Upcoming journal publishing workshop
- Some brief thoughts on Slavoj Žižek at LSE
- International Pynchon Week 2010: Day 3
- International Pynchon Week: Day 2
- International Pynchon Week: Day 1
- International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts
Copyright and Licensing (43)
- More on dual-licensing of digital OA books
- What is actually licensed in print/digital dual-licensed books?
- Are metadata facts?
- Boycott Routledge over AI training? It's probably in the contract...
- AI and Open Cultural Licensing (remarks to be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI In the Communications Circuit)
- On informed consent and open licensing
- An update on the reprint of my book
- OA books being reprinted under CC BY license
- If I could radically reshape copyright law for research
- Museums continue to make third-party licensing for academic scholarship a total pain
- Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself
- Academic author rights of presentation on mutable digital platforms
- A little more on defamation and CC BY
- Additional points in my Plan S response
- My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
- Institutional Cultures, Patents, and Open-Source Software for Open Access
- On digital publishing and third-party rights
- If I still subscribed to Elsevier's Lingua, I'd demand a refund
- Conducting non-commercial research on in-copyright Amazon Kindle books
- Thinking more about EU law and UK copyright exemptions
- The UK copyright exemption for text and data mining vs. the DMCA and EUCD
- A final example to show that misquotation is nothing to do with open licensing
- Researchers are altering their methods because of uncertainty over Creative Commons licenses
- More on fair-use of screengrabs
- Another copyright absurdity: using film screenshots
- What's so moral about the "moral rights" of copyright for academics?
- Why do some academic publishers think they should charge extra for more liberal licenses (CC BY)?
- Who owns a Prezi?
- Has "the licensing battle been deferred" in the latest HEFCE document?
- Publication: 'Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors'
- On /That/ Statement by History Journal Editors
- Alluvium technical news: DOI numbers, CLOCKSS and MLA Bibliography
- E-Books: Copyright Infringement, Theft, Materiality and the Virtual
- Signing over copyright vs. licensing your journal articles
- Copyright and academia, particularly for Ph.Ds
- Adorno, Benjamin and Wittgenstein (!): knowledge is not property
- I have nothing to do with this "dissertation writing service"
- Change of license: all content now CC-BY
- Dropbox: you've missed the real problem
- Is academic work commercial? How does this affect libre licensing?
- Richard Stallman at the University of Sussex
- The Problems of Copyleft, Twitter and Tweets
- Plagiarism by Semiotext(e) translations?
Digital Humanities (23)
- In conversation with Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
- Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History is out today!
- Paper Thin: moving on to Chapter Four and seven propositions
- On programming/languages
- The social network of the London Review of Books
- Close Reading with Computers is now open access at Stanford University Press
- A hypothesis: kernel function density estimation and graphing may predict literary critical attention
- From Mars and Back to Close Reading with Computers
- Close Reading with Computers is Published Today and Next Projects
- (Digital) Ways of Looking
- Did Thomas Pynchon write Cow Country? Stylistic affinities and divergences
- Computational reading as 'reading against the reader'
- Initial parsing work on large JSON corpus
- Identifying 26GB of JSON Novel Data
- Undergraduates, digital humanities, and visualization: looking back on my early visualizations of Gravity's Rainbow
- The UK copyright exemption for text and data mining vs. the DMCA and EUCD
- Visualizing textual variance/genetics with SankeyVariant
- Visualizing Gravity's Rainbow
- Universities, DH, “the crowd”, and labour that looks like a game
- Some diagrams of Jennifer Egan novels
- Is what I do "digital humanities"?
- Starting a Digital Humanities Project: epiLog
- Rockaby: Mission Statement and Implementation Plans
Digital Preservation (22)
- Vaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use
- Crossref Member Practices feedback: without digital preservation, there is no digital persistence
- Not now, ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment!
- The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan)
- The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
- History and Digital Preservation
- Evaluating Document Similarity Detection Approaches for Content Drift Detection
- Preservation as a Memento Mori and Matter of Ethics
- Some of my upcoming projects at Crossref
- Text of Digital Library Futures keynote (Cambridge, 21st May 2019)
- Introducing Cemmento: A digital preservation tool for annotations
- Vint Cerf on Digital Preservation at AAUP 2015
- Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion
- Alluvium technical news: DOI numbers, CLOCKSS and MLA Bibliography
- Judging the Safety of an Open Access Journal
- More on OJS and CLOCKSS
- Open Journal Systems now supports archiving with CLOCKSS out of the box
- On Blog Inequality in Scholarly Research
- Impossible Objects: Preservation and Extinction (on the First Folio)
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is now digitally preserved by CLOCKSS
- The problems for small Open Access journals in terms of digital preservation
- More thoughts on metrics, link-rot, canonical URLs
Health (44)
- An update from day 68 in hospital...
- A further health update...
- What's that sound?
- Feed, Infection Control, Fluid Overload
- Admission, meds, vascular access...
- Thinking About Dogs
- The NHS Can Never Fail: There Is No Circumstance Where It Would Be Deemed Overwhelmed
- It's been ten years...
- Trying out the Nurosym vagus nerve stimulator for a couple of weeks
- My conflicted thoughts on the UK's assisted dying bill
- Why it's worth avoiding as many viruses/common colds as possible: mine led to permanent disability
- Rollercoaster days
- How long have I got, doc?
- Betting against the future
- On Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Things Most People Don't Know About It
- Points mean prizes
- New wheels
- On pain and subjectivity
- How do you get access to antivirals on the NHS CDMU system and does it work?
- I had Evusheld privately in the UK
- The politics of peer review and preprints in the real world
- It's Tricky
- A glimmer of hope
- How YOU can help people still shielding
- The Current State of Evusheld (tixagevimab/cilgavimab) in the UK
- On life, death, dignity, and Dignitas
- Abandoning restrictions should not mean abandoning the vulnerable. We need policies to help those who remain at risk.
- Shielding is being eased again. Here's why this is so frightening.
- On healthcare economics and valuing lives
- How much optimism?
- Attempted realistic observations on 2021
- Rethinking assessment during the pandemic, particularly re. disability equality
- The easing of shielding: the UK government's abrogation of responsibility
- Notes on vulnerability and COVID-19
- The new REF individual circumstances setup: the good and the bad
- Immunity problems
- How do you describe this kind of illness?
- On music, life, Tici Taci, and a new release
- My autoimmune diseases are attacking my ears and I am losing my hearing
- Open access in a time of illness
- I have suffered from an episode of cerebral vasculitis and a stroke
- On ten years of chronic illness
- The Rhetoric of "Fighting" Illness and Disability
- Alternative/Complementary Medicine and Mass Anecdotal Evidence as Theological in Structure
Higher Education (98)
- What is a University Press?
- On dropping the REF OA mandate for books (this time)
- Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books
- The problem for REF 2029
- Augar, The Humanities, Covid: Gazing into the Crystal Ball
- While the government introduces new freedom of speech rules at universities, the biggest threat to academic freedom remains their insistence on the financial destabilization of institutions
- My resignation as an external examiner at the University of Leicester in the wake of proposed cuts to English
- The Observer should not offer column inches to allow Oxford College principals to denigrate other universities
- Rapid-response grants and disciplinary boundaries
- Rethinking assessment during the pandemic, particularly re. disability equality
- Why academic bookstores?
- Open access monographs and the REF-after-REF 2021
- The new REF individual circumstances setup: the good and the bad
- Opting out of league tables is, of course, a type of prestige game
- The supervisory frustrations of AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships
- Birkbeck updates draft REF code of practice to specify that it will not submit anyone on compulsory redundancy, despite not having any such redundancies anyway
- Some jottings on academic freedom and Plan S/open access
- Where we are with the OA monograph mandate for the Third Research Excellence Framework
- Thoughts on the UUK offer and why I voted yes
- On the OA "mandate" for books in the Third REF and the worry over trade books
- Action Short of a Strike Must Recognize That 9-5 is Not Always Helpful
- Who was actually responsible for the Toby Young OfS debacle?
- On ECRs, long-form-outputs, and the non-portability of outputs for REF
- My responses to the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework
- The thing that's gone missing in the revisions to the REF consultation between February and December 2016: the 5* category
- Points from my first reading of the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework
- Five un-busted aspects of the TEF
- Stern and REF: assessing the past to fund the future with non-portability
- The Stern review of REF
- On the ownership, portability and accreditation of research
- Transcript of meeting between Elsevier and the Minister for Higher Education in the UK, Jo Johnson
- It looks unlikely that UK universities are going to get out of the Freedom of Information Act
- A world reimagined without the university
- Evolving notes on the political philosophy of David Willetts
- The postponed REF consultation document
- Trying to understand Ofqual's inter-subject comparability Rasch model tests for easy/hard subjects at GCSE and A-Level
- Institutional Finance and Academic Freedom
- My response to the HE Green Paper
- HE Green Paper: response to question 28
- HE Green Paper: response to question 27
- HE Green Paper: response to question 26
- HE Green Paper: response to question 25
- Internal review of FOI2015/25797
- HE Green Paper: response to question 24
- HE Green Paper: response to question 22
- HE Green Paper: response to question 21
- HE Green Paper: response to question 20
- HE Green Paper: response to question 19
- HE Green Paper: response to question 18
- HE Green Paper: response to question 17
- HE Green Paper: response to question 16
- HE Green Paper: response to question 15
- HE Green Paper: response to question 14
- HE Green Paper: response to question 13
- HE Green Paper: response to question 12
- HE Green Paper: response to question 11
- HE Green Paper: response to question 9
- HE Green Paper: response to question 10
- HE Green Paper: response to question 8
- HE Green Paper: response to question 7
- HE Green Paper: response to question 6
- HE Green Paper: response to question 5
- HE Green Paper: response to question 4
- HE Green Paper: response to question 3
- HE Green Paper: response to question 2
- HE Green Paper: response to question 1
- BIS, metrics and non-selective QR-allocation
- HE Green Paper: response to question 23
- What TEF is really for
- Jo Johnson: your proposals for British higher education will not yield the competitiveness you seek
- 'It's not about stifling academic freedom'
- TEF, REF, QR, deregulation: thoughts on Jo Johnson's HE talk
- Additional contexts for reading the emergence of new UK university presses
- The link between teaching, tuition fees and research publication economics
- Define: impact
- My short additional response to the HEFCE metrics consultation
- Ann Wordsworth, Critical Theory, Faculty Contingency and the University in Ruins
- Why OA mandates don't compromise academic freedom
- HEFCE's Post-2014 Open Access Policy: the short "what you need to know" version
- HEFCE (REF2020), IR deposit and embargoes
- Publication: Review of Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets
- HEFCE, the State of Open Access in the UK and Post-2014 REF
- Open Access, "Neoliberalism", "Impact" and the Privatisation of Knowledge
- The Grim Phoenix: The New Challenges for Open Access
- What will the Humanities do Post-Finch? (or: where are the OA venues?)
- The real problem with this mode of "curbing grade inflation"
- More unpaid academic positions and apparent "culture of entitlement"
- Perverse advert for BITE: "Keep Calm About University Fees"
- The undervalued book collection and peer review
- Guest piece in the Guardian: Secondary schools are not adequately preparing students for higher education
- HEFCE board appointments: learning through Argos
- UK HE White Paper day
- Angry Young Academics: The "Directors' Cut"
- Media piece: "Taking Back the University", The Guardian
- "(Un)Reasonable" fees by which metric?
- Vince Cable's Orwell-esque doublethink
- DEMO 2010
- OUSU Freedom of Information requests
Information Security (63)
- How can you securely share a secret number with someone, totally in public? Elliptic Curves
- Claude Code can consume, transmit, and compromise your .env files even if you tell it not to
- How to use YubiKey for authentication and sudo on Ubuntu 24.04
- How to securely create an encrypted digital 'in case of death' document
- What to do when your Tor relay isn't listening
- Going Dark: Running a Tor relay and a dark web version of this site
- We Are Terrible at Online Identity Management (or: Using Emails as An Identifier Was a Bad Move)
- Lastpass CLI can't login using master password
- My book, Password, is out now!
- Auto-renewing SSL Certificates with Let'sEncrypt
- How to block distributed brute-force attacks against Wordpress using fail2ban
- Wordpress php eval attacks
- Quibbling with the LRB over "Hackers"
- .NETIDS development restarted. Participants wanted.
- Encrypted Partition Recovery on Ubuntu 10.10
- Using Elliptical Curve Cryptography in OpenSSH
- SSL Enabled
- The 'net was never free from commercial interest; it's not a "new" threat to democratic speech
- Wireless when housesitting (airmon-ng)
- HTC Wildfire Stage 1 Soft-Root
- PoC Code for Facebook Friend Profile Gatherer
- sshsplit featured
- sshsplit: a dynamic tunnel multiplexer
- Dual Stage SQL Injection Attacks
- Fetching files via echo, FTP in a non interactive shell environment
- Bypassing firewalls using SSH Reverse Forwarding
- SSH Key Based, Password Less Login
- The importance of weaponization in exploit development
- Building a robust, SSL, CRC-Verified server/client solution in the .NET Framework with C#
- IE7 Remote File Access
- Firefox 3 disallows cross-site XBL
- An XML based XSS PoC platform
- Right-To-Left and Left-To-Right characters
- XSS for the common good - GreaseMousey
- Obfuscated fun
- Some evil stuff from sla.ckers
- JavaScript internal numerical representations
- HttpOnly cookies in .NET 2.0
- .NETIDS v.0.1.1.0 released
- CSRF being used in latest IPB vuln – what about PHP web request?
- .NETIDS v.0.1.0.0 released
- .NETIDS can now detect fragmented XSS
- Firefox nested comment fragmented XSS
- A bad day for browsers
- dotnetids
- (C)SRF one-time token bypass using AJAX and XSS
- XSS Tutorial
- String.fromCharCode Encoder
- Bypassing Same Origin Policy using Mash-Ups
- RSnake + Jeremiah Grossman's Book Released
- XSF: Cross Site Flashing
- MOSEB month of search engine bugs
- heise Security reports backdoor in Artmedic CMS
- XSS in eXceSS: A "learn-XSS tool"
- XSS Cheat Sheet
- PHP IDS
- JavaScript eval String.fromCharCode encoder
- Amendments to the British Computer Misuse Act
- Bypass ASP.NET XSS Protection in Internet Explorer
- httpOnly Cookie Detection
- Evaluating the security of the JSONRequest object
- JavaScript Referer Scripts XSS Injection
- Firefox XBL-JS Loader v1.0
Linux (38)
- How to get a blocked USB stack and dead microphone working again on Linux
- How to use YubiKey for authentication and sudo on Ubuntu 24.04
- If you cannot connect to a deluged daemon remotely
- How to install Ubuntu on the HP Dragonfly Elite (hint: disable Optane)
- davmail uses Java certificate store, not central ca-certificates
- Accelerating Synology RAID 6 (SHR-2) reshapes
- Running unoconv on Ubuntu 18.04 and Libreoffice 6
- Linux CPU Frequency Scaling on the Intel i9 7980XE
- Keith McMillen K-Mix on Linux
- Auto-renewing SSL Certificates with Let'sEncrypt
- update-grub/os-prober not detecting Windows 7
- Enabling a triple-head (3 monitor) setup on Linux Mint 16 ("Petra") with two Nvidia cards
- Why I'm a fan of open source software: An argument by anecdote/example
- Displaying EE mobile data usage in Conky
- Fixing mpd segfault on Ubuntu 12.10 on ARM devices (Mele, Pandaboard etc)
- Tech things I have learned in the last 12 hours
- Using bumblebee for opteron graphics on Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Chronos 7 Series laptop
- Fixing scanning on an HP Photosmart C6300 series in Ubuntu 12.10
- Doing a Ph.D using only free, open source software
- Booting Ubuntu from devices invisible to GRUB2
- 64bit GNU/Linux and Webcams (Logitech Quickcam Express)
- Installing Zotero on Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10/Beta)
- Encrypted Partition Recovery on Ubuntu 10.10
- Using Elliptical Curve Cryptography in OpenSSH
- Six lines to get Sun Java running on Fedora 15 x64
- Moving from Ubuntu to Fedora
- Ubuntu Natty Beta 1: My Upgrade Experience
- Installing Zotero on Ubuntu Natty (11.04/Beta)
- OCZ RevoDrive on Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI
- Android Rom Update Utility extractor for Linux
- Using Unison to synchronize and backup your work [Part 1]
- Fixing headphone jack on Toshiba Satellite C650D under Ubuntu Linux Maverick
- Userspace responsiveness .bashrc alternative (Ubuntu 10.10: Working)
- Wireless when housesitting (airmon-ng)
- Running Zotero on Ubuntu Lucid
- Fixing scp completion in Ubuntu 9.10
- Installing Office 2007 on wine 1.1.24
- SSH Key Based, Password Less Login
Literature (114)
- My View on AI and University-Level English Literature
- The extended interviews on To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
- Structure and There Is No Antimemetics Division
- A few critical notes on Elly Griffith's The Frozen People
- An Introduction to Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
- An introduction to the poetry of Emily Dickinson
- 20th-Century British Isles
- 19th-Century British Isles
- 18th-Century British Isles
- The Brazilian Novel
- Bildungsroman
- The Baltic States and the Novel
- Authorship
- The Asian-American Novel
- The Arabic Novel
- Anthropology and the Novel
- Andean Novels
- Ancient West
- The African-American Novel
- Aspects of the Novel
- Ancient South Asia
- Ancient China
- Adaptation and Appropriation
- Notes on Nicholas Gaskill's Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color
- Some incomplete notes on Les Encres noires au Moyen Âge
- Birkbeck: The Oldest University English Department in the World? (and a new Oscar Wilde lecture at Birkbeck)
- On the Chromoclasm, the absence of colour, and notes towards a translation of Michel Pastoureau's ‘L’incolore n’existe Pas’
- When and why did paper become white and why was white paper so valued?
- The social network of the London Review of Books
- Getting the Gist of Reading
- The first OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: The Critique of Metamodernism
- Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City
- Instrumental reading
- (Digital) Ways of Looking
- How to read a (blank) page: on redaction in contemporary fiction
- Forthcoming Books in the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Series
- My critique of metamodernism
- Two types of post-critique
- The Folio Society Edition of Riddley Walker
- Next book project: The Aesthetics of Metadata: Redaction, Reference, & the Archive in Contemporary Fiction
- My new book, Literature Against Criticism, is published today
- Now accepting proposals to 'New Horizons in Contemporary Writing' series
- Computational reading as 'reading against the reader'
- Have you read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas? If so, which of the two very different versions?
- The Faber Finds edition of Rex Warner's The Professor is very poorly formatted and proofed
- The methodology of literary taxonomy: HARKing and p-hacking
- 'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
- The Conservatism of Cloud Atlas
- Chapter Four:
AcademicFiction - Chapter Three: Political Critique and the University in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
- Chapter Two: Self-Canonisation, Literary-Historical Fictions and Aesthetic Critique
- The Anxiety of Academia: Academics, Legitimation and Discipline in Contemporary Metafiction
- Foucauldian methodologies for considering emerging archives?
- Publication: Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
- Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega (preprint, forthcoming in Journal of American Studies)
- Alluvium 2nd Birthday Panel Event
- Symposium on David Mitchell: 9th May, London
- Publication: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and Metafiction After the Millennium
- Some diagrams of Jennifer Egan novels
- Publication: "Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld"
- Publication: “You will see the logic of the design of this”: From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity
- Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man
- Modernist Intimacies conference
- Conference Paper: "Too many goddamn echoes": Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's /Point Omega/', Birkbeck
- Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodernism?'
- Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
- Publication: Review of 1Q84 in 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2012)
- CFP: Feminism;; Influence;; Inheritance
- Jeffrey Archer's 140-character story and plagiarism
- My thoughts on DT Max's biography of DFW
- Conference paper: 'Opening children's eyes': Overloaded Forms and the Didactic Function (Westminster University)
- Weird Council: The first international conference on the works of China Miéville #mieville2012 (storify)
- Conference on China Miéville: Weird Council
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Live Stage Version at the ICA
- Impossible Objects: Preservation and Extinction (on the First Folio)
- Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and 21st-Century Utopianism (presentation)
- Teaching Post-Millenial Fiction Conference archive
- Day 2 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
- Thinking Feeling Conference at the University of Sussex
- The Ontological Problems of Contemporary Fiction Studies are Actually its Ontological Prerequsites
- Day 1 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
- Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Write-Up: Martin Amis' Money (2012-04-28)
- Teaching Post-Millennial Literature: A HEA and University of Brighton Symposium
- Talawa's Waiting for Godot
- Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and Twenty-First-Century Utopianism, 16-18 July, 2012, University of Lincoln
- First Fictions Festival at Sussex
- Joe Orton's Defaced Books at the Islington Museum
- First Fictions launch weekend: 20-22 January, 2012
- Simon F. Davies' Open Educational Resource on Literary Terms
- Brian Lobel: BALL and Other Funny Stories About Cancer
- Donne it wrong: Holy Sonnet numbering confusion
- The Nobel Prize for Literature 2011 Hoax
- Conference Paper: 'It sure's hell looked like war': Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld', 2010-06-09, University of Lublin
- Thoughts from "Calling All Agents": The first symposium on the work of Tom McCarthy
- Enslavement Conference, Portsmouth, 17th June 2011
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 3
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 2
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 1
- "We've met before, haven't we?": Spatio-Temporal Distortion in David Lynch's Lost Highway
- Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's "On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God"
- David Foster Wallace's The Pale King: Bonnie Nadell and Michael Pietsch at Foyles
- Picture This: Postcards Exhibition
- Designing a UK undergraduate English literature course
- Russell Hoban in Conversation with Will Self at the British Library
- SA4QE2011: The Drops
- SA4QE 2011: Spreading the Word of Russell Hoban
- Picture this: Postcards Competition
- Publication: ‘Local Transcendence: Postmodern Historiography and the Database by Alan Liu’, Textual Practice, 24, 6 (December 2010)
- Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond Text
- First Fictions conference
- New David Foster Wallace book Fall 2010
- International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts
- David Foster Wallace archive material
- Can we avoid the S word regarding David Foster Wallace?
Music (17)
- Using a public API, or the instability of MusicBrainz IDs
- Moog Minitaur: the editor and exclusive USB lock
- How to fix a broken Crumar Bit99 synthesizer
- Ratholin'
- What size should my music studio be?
- The Learning Experience out today on Tici Taci and my book has gone to print at Stanford University Press
- Running the PreSonus Quantum interfaces on Windows 7
- A missing audio hardware device
- On music, life, Tici Taci, and a new release
- M-Audio Trigger Finger Pro synchronisation problems
- Keith McMillen K-Mix on Linux
- Current working music
- Here by the Sea and Sand: A Symposium on Quadrophenia
- Buy This Album: Mountain of Love (ex-Alabama 3)
- Jake Wilson: "All's Well". Website and Music up!
- **Support War Child** and see Laurent Gardner/Booka Shade/Leftfield live April 2012
- Upcoming performance: Lucy and Martha: Fine Bone China
Open Access (249)
- Vaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use
- More on dual-licensing of digital OA books
- What is actually licensed in print/digital dual-licensed books?
- Things I have made (KC IDMS in place, Lower Decks conference, and quote in ResearchProfessional)
- Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
- Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
- What is a University Press?
- Work in progress: 'Rage Against the Machine: The Politics of Open Access, Large Language Models, and the Reaction Against Open'
- Open Journals Collective: Making Open Access a Reality at Scale
- On dropping the REF OA mandate for books (this time)
- Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books
- Why Lever Press?
- The latest Ithaka S+R draft report is hugely regressive
- Small publishers and subscribe to open
- Notes on 'Plan S for Shock'
- Did you know that you can deposit the version of record of Bloomsbury Academic book chapters in your institutional repository?
- Open access is building a one-time, shared, international library collection
- On informed consent and open licensing
- What is the relationship between legal form, governance, and ethics?
- All ten of my books now are (or will be when published) open access
- The proliferation of business models for open-access books
- What’s happening at the moment with open-access books?
- cOAlition S endorsing Subscribe to Open is a great start. We need the same thinking about books from the beginning.
- An update on the reprint of my book
- Questions and Answers from UKSG on Opening the Future
- OA books being reprinted under CC BY license
- The Publisher's Association's impact assessment on OA is pretty much as you'd expect
- The Open Library of Humanities and Brexit: VAT Position
- On the costs of scholarly communications and the discourse of 'fairness'
- Backlist to the Future: a new business model for university presses and open-access books
- On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access
- Some reflections on the politics of open peer review
- The Emergence of Threat Infrastructures: Plan S and Behavioral Change
- Reading ‘The Democratisation Myth’ and thinking through decolonial OA
- On the overhead of 'business models'
- If I could radically reshape copyright law for research
- On academic journals as clubs
- Notes on Raym Crow. (2009). Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. SPARC.
- On business model generation for open access monographs
- Transformative agreements in the time of COVID-19
- On critical design and designing for provocation
- On participatory design in library architecture
- Is ‘the money in the system’?
- Why academic bookstores?
- Museums continue to make third-party licensing for academic scholarship a total pain
- On ‘The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge’
- Notes on Susan Leigh Star’s ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’
- Subscribe to Open and Plan S
- On Springer and APCs 'in the wild'
- Close Reading with Computers is now open access at Stanford University Press
- On a challenge of print subsidy for OA
- My draft response to the UKRI OA consultation
- Open access monographs and the REF-after-REF 2021
- Key Points from The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document
- The T&F buyout of F1000 neutralizes the Plan S threat infrastructures
- The second OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: Natural language generation and authorial labour
- The first OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: The Critique of Metamodernism
- A brief note on the RHS Plan S report
- An expensive but possible way to do Society OA
- A thought experiment: do we really care about the type of scholarly publishing entity?
- The Problems of Unit Costs Per Article
- Learned Societies, Open Access and Budgetary Cross-Subsidy
- When infrastructural support clashes with DORA and good research assessment practices
- The British Academy response misrepresents Plan S and OA
- Old Traditions and New Technologies
- Thoughts on academic prestige and institutional solvency
- Text of Digital Library Futures keynote (Cambridge, 21st May 2019)
- Learned Societies Plan S report and a note on double dipping
- A little more on defamation and CC BY
- Additional points in my Plan S response
- My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
- Comments on the interim Royal Historical Society response to Plan S
- Some jottings on academic freedom and Plan S/open access
- On the practical implementation of Plan S
- Where we are with the OA monograph mandate for the Third Research Excellence Framework
- Transparency agendas are being used to legislate against consortial open-access models even though it has good cost outcomes
- On the OA "mandate" for books in the Third REF and the worry over trade books
- The Tender Document for the European Commission's Open Access Platform Asks for an Awful Lot for Not Very Much
- How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model
- Open Access Resources and Evaluation; or: why OA journals might fare badly in terms of conventional usage
- Cambridge University Press and Censorship
- Open Access Monographs Misrepresented
- Dear Walt
- If I still subscribed to Elsevier's Lingua, I'd demand a refund
- On consortial OA funding models and renewals
- 100 people in a room: on the distributional effects of different open-access funding models
- Librarian Evaluation of Non-APC OA Models in the Age of Open Access
- On the economics of flipping subscription journals
- How much does it cost to run a small scholarly publisher?
- My responses to the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework
- Four implementation questions about open access and monographs
- Learned societies in the humanities, open access, and paying for disciplinary goods
- The rivalrous parts of non-rivalrous digital forms
- Referring Elsevier/RELX to the Competition and Markets Authority
- What we mean when we ask whether open access is sustainable
- Questions about APC-free models
- 'But the public don't need access to humanities research'
- Some of the arguments, counter-arguments, and political alignments for and against open access
- More on my experience with Open Book Publishers
- A few initial notes on David Golumbia's 'Marxism and Open Access in the Humanities'
- Why Open Book Publishers for my next book?
- 'Paying it forward' to fund scholarly communications?
- Aren't you just being driven by technology?
- Consortial funding and downward price pressure for open access
- What do we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms 'sustainable'?
- Embargoing metadata?
- Open access in a time of illness
- The postponed REF consultation document
- On speed and open access
- Accreditation and research-assessment practices (on DORA and the Tickell review)
- An old tradition and a new technology: notes on why open access remains hard
- Why handling Book Processing Charges from a purchasing library is hard
- These games we play (in ScholComms)
- Some numbers on book processing charge scalability
- Two fundamental challenges for a transition to open-access monographs
- Clarifying a few facts for Elsevier and their response to Lingua
- Academia.edu’s peer-review experiments
- Re-hosting the 2014 British Academy report on OA Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- A final example to show that misquotation is nothing to do with open licensing
- Researchers are altering their methods because of uncertainty over Creative Commons licenses
- Additional contexts for reading the emergence of new UK university presses
- APCs and Uneven Distribution
- Applications now open for OpenCon 2015
- Flipping journals to OA while supporting existing OA publications
- Dissemination and Assessment: Open Access, Reputation and Economics
- Thoughts in response to Michael Chibnik's editorial on OA and American Anthropologist
- Scalability, Sustainability, Market Responsiveness and Mandates in OA
- Gearing up for OLH in the UK and the resolution to the VAT question
- What does the academic monograph market look like for a new open-access publisher?
- Publishers: Serving Authors or Readers?
- Publication: Co-operating for gold open access without APCs
- Ethics of a Journal's Surplus
- How can Elsevier claim that its OA revenue stream is separate from subscriptions in a hybrid environment?
- Financing for fee-driven gold open access
- On open-access books and “double dipping”
- The HEFCE report on Open Access Monographs: some reflections
- Being called to account: tax considerations for UK-based collectively-funded open access publishers
- Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry) reviews Open Access and the Humanities
- Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
- Online p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ webinar to talk open access with @mweller and me: Tuesday 16th December 3pm
- Gold Open Access and Article Processing Charges: Point of Risk and the Risk Pool
- The tension between dissemination and measurement
- Book: Open Access and the Humanities
- Above and beyond: “good” and “bad” surpluses in academic publishing
- Discussing/annotating The History Manifesto and the open access effect(?)
- We're a small learned society charging £25. What are we doing wrong?: OA for small society journals
- Pondering a solution to the problem of Learned Societies and the transition to open access
- Academic Libraries and Non-Disclosure Clauses: institutions should internally mandate against them
- Is open access a "solution without a problem" for the humanities?
- University Presses and Commercial Publishers should start offering green OA for monographs
- Things academia.edu (@academia) should do (hint: work with green OA)
- What's so moral about the "moral rights" of copyright for academics?
- Why do some academic publishers think they should charge extra for more liberal licenses (CC BY)?
- Does Amazon kill a revenue channel for open access monographs?
- Forthcoming book: Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge UP, 2014)
- Publication: All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities Disciplines
- Open access: effective measures to put UK research online under threat?
- My short additional response to the HEFCE metrics consultation
- A research tool I want (but probably won't get): cross-reference/intersect bibliographies of books and articles
- Open Access, Monographs and "working for publishers for free"
- An Open Library of Humanities? Adeline Koh interviews me at the Chronicle's ProfHacker
- Openness for society or for profit?
- What do we mean by the "standing" and "reach" of research?
- Alluvium 2nd Birthday Panel Event
- Funding for the Open Library of Humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Designing an open source OA toolchain for books
- Why OA mandates don't compromise academic freedom
- HEFCE's Post-2014 Open Access Policy: the short "what you need to know" version
- Predatory Publishers: Not Just OA (and who loses out?)
- What's it like to publish in SAGE Open?
- HEFCE (REF2020), IR deposit and embargoes
- Publication: Utopia Fading: Taxonomies, Freedom and Dissent in Open Access Publishing
- Gov and RCUK responses to Open Access Inquiry: eradicating non-disclosure clauses
- First meeting of HEFCE Expert Reference Group on Open Access Monographs
- Three reasons why I think journal prestige is a broken system
- How ironic are the open access irony awards?
- What's "open" got to do with it?
- Work on open access technology, get a masters degree in Computer Science: funded place
- What is it like to publish in the journal 'Neo-Victorian Studies'?
- Full response to Science-Metrix report on gold OA citation rates
- SXSW Panel: Vote to get Open Access on the agenda
- Reports from the frontline of humanities OA in Japan
- Has "the licensing battle been deferred" in the latest HEFCE document?
- HEFCE, the State of Open Access in the UK and Post-2014 REF
- Joining the UK National Monographs Strategy Expert Panel
- Speaking at SPARC Japan
- Evaluating the Open Access software toolchain
- Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats?
- Publication: 'Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors'
- Publication: 'Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review'
- Internationalisation of New Open Access Initiatives
- Historical Sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society now available for download (Green Open Access)
- I'm appearing before the House of Commons BIS Select Committee into Open Access
- Futurity, Books, Marx, Labour
- The Future of Peer Review
- Open Access, "Neoliberalism", "Impact" and the Privatisation of Knowledge
- House of Commons BIS Inquiry on Open Access Evidence Published
- Conference Paper: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and Open Access Publishing" (Lincoln University)
- Q&A with me in Library Journal: Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences
- On Opposition to *any* APC model
- An update on the PLOHSS project
- Call For Participants to Build a PLOS-style Model for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- On /That/ Statement by History Journal Editors
- Judging the Safety of an Open Access Journal
- The Grim Phoenix: The New Challenges for Open Access
- Crude, but helpful, typesetting script from meXml
- Orbit 1.2 is now "open" and our "rolling format" is live
- Relativize and Historicize: Open Access, Article Processing Charges and Transparency
- What will the Humanities do Post-Finch? (or: where are the OA venues?)
- Open Access needs terminology to distinguish between funding models: Platinum OA/Gold NON-APC
- What app.net has to teach scholarly publishing: altruism has been forgotten and everything is a "product"
- Mythbusting: "A Proposed List — 60 Things Journal Publishers Do"
- Gold Open Access does **NOT** mean: "author pays"
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide. Table of contents.
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 5
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 4
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is now digitally preserved by CLOCKSS
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 3
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 2
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 1
- Publication: 'Tear it down, build it up: the Research Output Team, or the library-as-publisher', Insights, 25, 2 (July 2012), pp. 158-162
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is live
- The part of the open access debate that is, irritatingly, ignored
- Beware the next wave of academic publishing grimness: apps.
- An update on Orbit 1.1
- Video of my #uksglive presentation on the future of academic publishing
- The future of academic publishing Q&A
- UKSG Conference: photos and slides
- I am joining the OAPEN-UK, Open Access Monograph, Steering Group
- The problems for small Open Access journals in terms of digital preservation
- Podcast on Open Source, Open Access publishing
- More thoughts on metrics, link-rot, canonical URLs
- DOIs: What you need to know
- Project idea/request for comment: OpenDOI
- Open Access Week at the University of Sussex
- Immanent critique of closed access publication
- Guest post at PhD2Published
- Postgraduate Publishing
- Conference Paper: "Autosubversive Practices in Academic Publishing", UKSG, 2012-03-26
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon
- Is academic work commercial? How does this affect libre licensing?
- Guarding your academic ideas
- Getting Published in Academia
- The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish
- Researchers, Libraries and Publishers: What does the future hold?
- Notes and Presentation from my Open Access talk
- Speaking of Open Access...
- Upcoming journal publishing workshop
Personal (78)
- An update from day 68 in hospital...
- A further health update...
- What's that sound?
- Feed, Infection Control, Fluid Overload
- Admission, meds, vascular access...
- The extended interviews on To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
- The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan)
- Thinking About Dogs
- It's been ten years...
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
- 2,000 Christmas trees sold by the 14th December
- My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup
- My academic year in review
- Why it's worth avoiding as many viruses/common colds as possible: mine led to permanent disability
- Rollercoaster days
- How long have I got, doc?
- Betting against the future
- On Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Things Most People Don't Know About It
- A year of looking in on academia
- My 2023 year in review
- Points mean prizes
- New wheels
- Sunsetting martineve.com
- On pain and subjectivity
- My 2022 year in review
- Moving On: My Infrastructural Turn
- A glimmer of hope
- Input-Output
- Aiming for downtime
- Last year I spent 506 hours answering emails. How I hope to do less of it this year.
- On life, death, dignity, and Dignitas
- My 2021 year in review
- All ten of my books now are (or will be when published) open access
- How much optimism?
- Attempted realistic observations on 2021
- Resolutions, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Parts of Academia
- My 2020 year in review
- Academic books I'm writing
- My 2019 in review
- I have won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Immunity problems
- From Mars and Back to Close Reading with Computers
- How do you describe this kind of illness?
- On music, life, Tici Taci, and a new release
- My 2018 in review
- My 2017 academic year in review
- My autoimmune diseases are attacking my ears and I am losing my hearing
- My 2016 academic year in review
- I have suffered from an episode of cerebral vasculitis and a stroke
- On ten years of chronic illness
- Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing
- My 2015 academic year in review
- Moving to Birkbeck
- My 2014 round-up
- A consumerist rant: what's wrong with banks
- Current working music
- My 2013 academic year in review
- Ethics
- Moving on from Sussex and joining the University of Lincoln
- The Viva
- By the time you read this, I will be...
- Post-Submission Weirdness
- Submitted my Ph.D! (in memory of my grandfather, John Gray [10/02/1920 - 14/06/2012])
- New York Times writes about my Ph.D. thesis work!
- Jake Wilson: "All's Well". Website and Music up!
- First draft of my Ph.D is done!
- 2012: Year of the PhD Completion / Guardian Higher Education Top 10 posts of 2011
- **Support War Child** and see Laurent Gardner/Booka Shade/Leftfield live April 2012
- A Thomas Pynchon tattoo recruit
- More Pynchonalia
- Photograph and Interview in the Guardian
- My AHEA success featured in RUSTLE
- Exactly half-way through my PhD timetable
- The Gaz Pearce Award
- SSL Enabled
- BBC News: fathoming financial terms
- My navy days with Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
- British Library usage made clear
Philosophy (61)
- What if downloads are not actually non-rivalrous?
- A Bibliography on "The Interesting"/"I'm Interested In"
- It's time we dropped Agamben
- Subscriptions for software and commodity fetishism
- On critical design and designing for provocation
- Two types of post-critique
- A note on moral relativism and unthinkable liberalism
- The rivalrous parts of non-rivalrous digital forms
- Reading Potter Stewart on recognition
- The critique of utopia
- Quasi-Objects
- Foucauldian methodologies for considering emerging archives?
- Rancière misreading Kautsky?
- Book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
- Publication: Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology
- My forthcoming book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave, 2014)
- Conference Paper: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and Open Access Publishing" (Lincoln University)
- The Clause Model of Adorno's Dialectical Sentences
- Notes on Adorno's "The Essay as Form"
- On the Impurity of the Humanities and Critical University Studies
- "Karl Marx, that sly old racist"
- Publication: 'Whose line is it anyway?: enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon', Textual Practice, 26, 5
- Another Adorno-against-Wittgenstein moment
- Thinking Feeling Conference at the University of Sussex
- New York Times writes about my Ph.D. thesis work!
- Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, Materialism and Negative Dialectics, 28-29 May, 2012, Northumbria University
- Adorno terminology: αρχαί
- A Complete List of the Ancient Greek Terms in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
- Adorno terminology: ζῷον πολιτικόν
- Adorno terminology: τοδε τι
- Adorno terminology: τέχνη
- Adnorno terminology: θαυμαζειv
- Adorno terminology: κατ εξοχην
- Adorno terminology: ἀγών (agon)
- Adorno terminology: εποχη [and lengthy textual note]
- Adorno terminology: ηδονη
- Adorno terminology: καιρος
- Adorno Greek Lexicon project
- Adorno terminology: θέσει
- Adorno terminology: άλλο γένος
- Adorno terminology: χωρισμός / chorismos
- Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011
- Reading the "My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings all the Boys to the Yard" T-Shirt
- Happy 85th Birthday, Michel Foucault
- Adorno, Benjamin and Wittgenstein (!): knowledge is not property
- Adorno terminology: intentio recta and intention obliqua
- CFP: Excursions Journal: States of Emergence, States of Emergency
- Conference paper: Geo-specificity of Enlightenment in Mason & Dixon, 2011-06-24, University of Glasgow
- William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Diane Coyle and Mark Stevenson at the British Library
- Speaking plainly
- Conference paper: “The Driver's Whip is an evil thing”: Enlightenment as Mass Enslavement in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, 2011-06-17, University of Portsmouth
- My recent work at Berfrois
- Conference Paper: "The F Word", 2011-04-01, University of Durham
- In Dubio Contra Reum: a definition
- Prisoner Rights, Overcriminalisation and Reform in Democracy
- Judith Butler at Sussex on Arendt, Cohabitation, and the Dispersion of Sovereignty
- The Big Society and Mythical Structure
- Alternative/Complementary Medicine and Mass Anecdotal Evidence as Theological in Structure
- A few notes on some of Jacques Derrida's writings
- Problematic indexing in Paul Rabinow's edited Foucault volume, "Ethics"
- Some brief thoughts on Slavoj Žižek at LSE
Piracy and Shadow Libraries (9)
- The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
- A critical bibliography about LibGen, the pirate site that Meta used for AI training
- Today marks the publication of my eighth book: Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
- Citing Pirate Artifacts
- I have submitted the Warez book
- On the ethics of studying pirate cultures
- An update on my Warez book: a book about the artforms of the high-level piracy scene
- Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself
- E-Books: Copyright Infringement, Theft, Materiality and the Virtual
Politics (58)
- The NHS Can Never Fail: There Is No Circumstance Where It Would Be Deemed Overwhelmed
- My conflicted thoughts on the UK's assisted dying bill
- Land of hope and tolerance
- I had Evusheld privately in the UK
- The UK's department for health and preprints
- The politics of peer review and preprints in the real world
- A glimmer of hope
- How YOU can help people still shielding
- The Current State of Evusheld (tixagevimab/cilgavimab) in the UK
- It's time we dropped Agamben
- Abandoning restrictions should not mean abandoning the vulnerable. We need policies to help those who remain at risk.
- Shielding is being eased again. Here's why this is so frightening.
- On healthcare economics and valuing lives
- The easing of shielding: the UK government's abrogation of responsibility
- Notes on vulnerability and COVID-19
- On ‘The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge’
- Who was actually responsible for the Toby Young OfS debacle?
- Cambridge University Press and Censorship
- A note on moral relativism and unthinkable liberalism
- Transcript of meeting between Elsevier and the Minister for Higher Education in the UK, Jo Johnson
- On neural networks and health data privacy
- It looks unlikely that UK universities are going to get out of the Freedom of Information Act
- Evolving notes on the political philosophy of David Willetts
- Internal review of FOI2015/25797
- My response to the NHS consultation
- 'It's not about stifling academic freedom'
- Some thoughts on repealing the Human Rights Act
- "A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
- "Because we care about our planet..."
- The Ice Bucket challenge and the "waste of water" critique
- My personal response to the TTIP consultation
- The "tax his land" meme and its discontents (me)
- The Democracy We Do Not Want
- Ethics
- On Freedom of Speech
- The real problem with this mode of "curbing grade inflation"
- Our epistemic gap: actually, we need to re-think "unemployment", "underemployment" and "benefits" entirely
- For ATTN: David Cameron and Andrew Lansley
- Global and historical reasons why it is utterly innapropriate, even to joke, about killing trade unionists
- Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011
- Complaint over the closure of the British Library to accomodate a visit from the queen
- The Werritty Feasel
- Words in memory of Troy Davis
- Troy Davis: Innocence and Execution; If This is a Man
- The Rhetoric of "Fighting" Illness and Disability
- Osama Bin Laden and Nuremberg Precedent
- On Daniel Domscheit-Berg's "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website"
- Prisoner Rights, Overcriminalisation and Reform in Democracy
- The Analytic of Patriotism: On Greg Mitchell's The Age of WikiLeaks
- David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
- The Big Society and Mythical Structure
- The 'net was never free from commercial interest; it's not a "new" threat to democratic speech
- Our Duty to Minorities
- Wikileaks is about capitalist paradigm shift, not single government overthrow
- Vince Cable's Orwell-esque doublethink
- DEMO 2010
- OUSU Freedom of Information requests
- Amendments to the British Computer Misuse Act
Programming (101)
- WordPress loading theme assets of a different theme to that selected
- Handling 403 errors in BuddyPress's new_activity_comment
- ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: failed to compute cache key: failed to calculate checksum of ref XXYYZZ
- Lando giving '404 page not found'
- Using a public API, or the instability of MusicBrainz IDs
- Hacking the full site editor in WordPress
- Testing 1, 2, 3 (on software testing and why it's interesting even to non-developers/non-coders)
- Swimming upstream
- Getting external access to BuddyPress's notifications (for Knowledge Commons)
- Getting Knowledge Commons Works running locally
- Evaluating Document Similarity Detection Approaches for Content Drift Detection
- Rusting Away (or: packing the entire Crossref database into a SQLite file)
- Blocking My Crawl
- Connecting to AWS OpenSearch Serverless using Python
- Self-referential language counting (I learned another word today bringing my total to fourteen words and twenty letters)
- Creating a voice-activated AI responder in Python
- Converting Excel date serial numbers to Python datetime format
- On application observability in serverless cloud contexts
- Integration testing locally and on GitLab CI using LocalStack
- A data pipeline with Apache Airflow and Dask
- Getting to grips with Airflow on Amazon AWS
- Reloading SQLite databases in Django when there have been external changes
- Running Django apps on AWS Fargate with a serverless RDS
- Static site hosting in the cloud should not be this hard in 2022
- Resizing image uploads in Django
- Using Django ORM, Click, and Rich to create useful command-line python apps
- Headless PDF printing in Chrome: when the standard timeout isn't enough
- On programming/languages
- Zotero and auto-downloading open access books
- What size should my music studio be?
- On automatically detecting parenthetical citations
- Introducing Cemmento: A digital preservation tool for annotations
- Overriding AngularJS directives' isolate scopes
- Continuing javascript execution after total DOM body replacement using DOM mutation observers
- Selecting specified text ranges in a browser using javascript and xpath
- Creating a generic loader for Annotator.js plugins inside a hypothes.is extension project
- CaSSius now supports full headless PDF creation from JATS XML
- Initial parsing work on large JSON corpus
- Identifying 26GB of JSON Novel Data
- Hypothes.is v0.8.14 error: "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"
- Overriding hypothesis's interface the right way
- Visualizing textual variance/genetics with SankeyVariant
- Fix some of your writing tics with a bit of technology
- Some lessons in writing Python web scrapers
- Object Thinking, Systems Description Languages and the Future of the Book
- Semantically marking up JATS bibliographies using meTypeset and Zotero
- Dumping JATS from Zotero
- Typesetting JATS bibliographies using CSL and Zotero
- Debugging meTypeset using a git filesystem
- MathML support in the meTypeset typesetter
- Modularizing the meTypeset typesetter for the user interface phase
- Handling the absence of a (newline) break tag in JATS
- Introducing eprintsCV: a python script to create an academic web CV from your eprints record
- Getting free_cite running on your own server
- CrossRef, DOIs and Preparing for Future Assignment
- Starting a Digital Humanities Project: epiLog
- Account aggregation with UK banks and a free software Lloyds TSB scraper
- meXmlGalley now supporting image insertion (OJS: XML to PDF)
- .NETIDS development restarted. Participants wanted.
- Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 2
- Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 1
- Publishing articles in PDF via XML/XSLT using Open Journal Systems 2.3.6
- Satchmo payment modules
- Crossword Helper for Android
- Mendeley for Android Update
- Mendeley for Android: Progress update
- Rockaby: Mission Statement and Implementation Plans
- Getting a custom Sync Service and Adapter to show up under "Data and Synchronization" on Android
- Mendeley for Android: screenshot of collection display
- Android Rom Update Utility extractor for Linux
- Automated CPanel Backups with SCP
- Mendeley Android Client: now implemented as a user account with sync
- Mendeley Android Client Progress (w/ Video, Source and APK!)
- OAuth for Mendeley on Android: solved and a bug
- Mendeley Android client; first preview and OAuth problem
- Djiscography: a Django-based discography generator
- Rockaby refactoring and abstraction
- Rockaby: text annotation software [GPL, alpha, announcement]
- Online crossword helper: http://ana.grammatic.org
- PoC Code for Facebook Friend Profile Gatherer
- sshsplit featured
- sshsplit: a dynamic tunnel multiplexer
- FTP URL FastSnap Parsing in .NET
- Creating an IRC front/back-end from a C# web application
- C# DataExecutor class again
- Expanding a treeview to a specific node in WPF
- Building a robust, SSL, CRC-Verified server/client solution in the .NET Framework with C#
- C# MemoryManagement Class
- Binding to RadioButtons in .NET Windows Forms
- wp-aspxrewriter alpha test
- An XML based XSS PoC platform
- IE7 Javascript - modify the DOM without crashing the browser
- XSS for the common good - GreaseMousey
- JavaScript internal numerical representations
- HttpOnly cookies in .NET 2.0
- C# DataExecutor class available
- .NETIDS v.0.1.1.0 released
- C# MySql DataExecutor class
- .NETIDS v.0.1.0.0 released
- .NETIDS can now detect fragmented XSS
- dotnetids
Publications (54)
- Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History is out today!
- Errata for Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
- Why Lever Press?
- Today marks the publication of my eighth book: Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
- Reading Peer Review is published today!
- On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access
- Close Reading with Computers is now open access at Stanford University Press
- The second OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: Natural language generation and authorial labour
- The first OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: The Critique of Metamodernism
- Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City
- Old Traditions and New Technologies
- Close Reading with Computers is Published Today and Next Projects
- The Learning Experience out today on Tici Taci and my book has gone to print at Stanford University Press
- How to read a (blank) page: on redaction in contemporary fiction
- Forthcoming Books in the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Series
- My new book, Literature Against Criticism, is published today
- Have you read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas? If so, which of the two very different versions?
- My book, Password, is out now!
- New review published of Joanna Freer, Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture
- Publication: Co-operating for gold open access without APCs
- Book: Open Access and the Humanities
- Forthcoming book: Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge UP, 2014)
- Publication: Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
- Publication: All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities Disciplines
- Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega (preprint, forthcoming in Journal of American Studies)
- Two free copies of "Pynchon and Philosophy" to win and/or a 25% discount
- Book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
- Publication: Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology
- Publication: The Means of (Re-)Production: Expertise, Open Tools, Standards and Communication
- Publication: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and Metafiction After the Millennium
- Publication: Utopia Fading: Taxonomies, Freedom and Dissent in Open Access Publishing
- Publication: Review of Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets
- My forthcoming book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave, 2014)
- Publication: "Gatekeepers in a digital wasteland", The Author
- Publication: "Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld"
- Publication: “You will see the logic of the design of this”: From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity
- Publication: 'Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors'
- Publication: 'Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review'
- Publication: 'The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish', in Zombies in the Academy (Bristol: Intellect, 2013)
- Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodernism?'
- Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
- Publication: Review of 1Q84 in 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2012)
- Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History (review)', Textual Practice, 26, 5
- Publication: 'Whose line is it anyway?: enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon', Textual Practice, 26, 5
- Publication: 'Tear it down, build it up: the Research Output Team, or the library-as-publisher', Insights, 25, 2 (July 2012), pp. 158-162
- Excursions Journal Vol 3: Launch Party
- My review of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon at Berfrois
- Guest piece in the Guardian: Secondary schools are not adequately preparing students for higher education
- Publication: 'Historical Sources for Pynchon’s Peter Pinguid Society', Pynchon Notes, 56-57 (Spring-Fall 2009 (2011)), pp. 242-245
- Excursions, Vol. 2, Issue 1: Virus (2011)
- Media piece: "Taking Back the University", The Guardian
- Publication: 'Review of Joe Moran, Interdisciplinarity 2nd edition', Rupkatha, 3, 1 (April 2011)
- My recent work at Berfrois
- Publication: ‘Local Transcendence: Postmodern Historiography and the Database by Alan Liu’, Textual Practice, 24, 6 (December 2010)
Publishing Technology (48)
- Crossref Member Practices feedback: without digital preservation, there is no digital persistence
- Not now, ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment!
- Things I have made (KC IDMS in place, Lower Decks conference, and quote in ResearchProfessional)
- I4OC open citations implementation in Janeway
- Institutional Cultures, Patents, and Open-Source Software for Open Access
- The Tender Document for the European Commission's Open Access Platform Asks for an Awful Lot for Not Very Much
- On automatically detecting parenthetical citations
- Of LaTeX and labour
- CaSSius now supports full headless PDF creation from JATS XML
- Getting started typesetting with CaSSius
- CaSSius: a PDF typesetter using CSS regions (via polyfill)
- Building a real XML-first (XML-in) workflow for scholarly typesetting
- In the beginning was the Word
- Object Thinking, Systems Description Languages and the Future of the Book
- Semantically marking up JATS bibliographies using meTypeset and Zotero
- Dumping JATS from Zotero
- Typesetting JATS bibliographies using CSL and Zotero
- Bitmask values for w:tblLook w:val attribute in OOXML
- Designing an open source OA toolchain for books
- Scholars and scientists who work in languages other than English: please help
- Debugging meTypeset using a git filesystem
- MathML support in the meTypeset typesetter
- Modularizing the meTypeset typesetter for the user interface phase
- Publication: The Means of (Re-)Production: Expertise, Open Tools, Standards and Communication
- Handling the absence of a (newline) break tag in JATS
- Work on open access technology, get a masters degree in Computer Science: funded place
- Rendering MathML in XSL:FO to PDF using fop
- Determining glyph availability for FOP
- Evaluating the Open Access software toolchain
- Getting free_cite running on your own server
- Exposing XML data for Orbit
- More on OJS and CLOCKSS
- Open Journal Systems now supports archiving with CLOCKSS out of the box
- Crude, but helpful, typesetting script from meXml
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide. Table of contents.
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 5
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 4
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 3
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 2
- Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 1
- Metadata handling for Open Access Journal PDFs
- Podcast on Open Source, Open Access publishing
- meXmlGalley now supporting image insertion (OJS: XML to PDF)
- Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 2
- Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 1
- Publishing articles in PDF via XML/XSLT using Open Journal Systems 2.3.6
- Conditional CSS in Open Journal/Conference Systems
- Upcoming journal publishing workshop
Scholarly Communications (55)
- Vaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use
- Crossref Member Practices feedback: without digital preservation, there is no digital persistence
- Not now, ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment!
- Repository metadata contain ontological ambiguities that fold into flat hierarchies
- Investigating ATProto here and for Knowledge Commons
- FAIR and Square: making a static site support FAIR signposting
- Making blog posts harvestable by Zotero and preserving case in citation fields
- Things I have made (KC IDMS in place, Lower Decks conference, and quote in ResearchProfessional)
- The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan)
- Too much publishing...
- Swimming upstream
- Getting external access to BuddyPress's notifications (for Knowledge Commons)
- Getting Knowledge Commons Works running locally
- Evaluating Document Similarity Detection Approaches for Content Drift Detection
- Are metadata facts?
- Rusting Away (or: packing the entire Crossref database into a SQLite file)
- Blocking My Crawl
- Citations and addressability
- Retract this!
- Rules vs. Principles in POSI
- What’s the point of having open scholarly infrastructures and how do we test their resilience?
- The latest Ithaka S+R draft report is hugely regressive
- Some of my upcoming projects at Crossref
- Moving On: My Infrastructural Turn
- What is 'the scholarly record'?
- What is the relationship between legal form, governance, and ethics?
- On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access
- The Emergence of Threat Infrastructures: Plan S and Behavioral Change
- On participatory design in library architecture
- Notes on Susan Leigh Star’s ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’
- Zotero and auto-downloading open access books
- I4OC open citations implementation in Janeway
- Thinking through citation resolution and proposals for consumer-driven, DOI-like metadata repositories
- Academic author rights of presentation on mutable digital platforms
- Old Traditions and New Technologies
- The single largest challenge for information publishing in the digital age
- What do we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms 'sustainable'?
- Embargoing metadata?
- The critique of utopia
- A world reimagined without the university
- These games we play (in ScholComms)
- The politics of style: on styleguides in scholarly communications
- A research tool I want (but probably won't get): cross-reference/intersect bibliographies of books and articles
- Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion
- Publication: 'The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish', in Zombies in the Academy (Bristol: Intellect, 2013)
- CrossRef, DOIs and Preparing for Future Assignment
- Alluvium technical news: DOI numbers, CLOCKSS and MLA Bibliography
- On ORCID, accreditation structures and altmetrics
- On Blog Inequality in Scholarly Research
- Metadata handling for Open Access Journal PDFs
- More thoughts on metrics, link-rot, canonical URLs
- DOIs: What you need to know
- Project idea/request for comment: OpenDOI
- Guest post on Google Scholar Citations
- Implementing COinS
Teaching (11)
- Rethinking assessment during the pandemic, particularly re. disability equality
- Teaching Post-Millenial Fiction Conference archive
- Teaching Post-Millennial Literature: A HEA and University of Brighton Symposium
- Teaching undergraduates to use secondary sources
- Guest piece in the Guardian: Secondary schools are not adequately preparing students for higher education
- Simon F. Davies' Open Educational Resource on Literary Terms
- Reading the "My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings all the Boys to the Yard" T-Shirt
- Donne it wrong: Holy Sonnet numbering confusion
- "We've met before, haven't we?": Spatio-Temporal Distortion in David Lynch's Lost Highway
- My AHEA success featured in RUSTLE
- Designing a UK undergraduate English literature course
Technology (59)
- What's that sound?
- Institutions shifting away from big tech
- Pangolin, Newt, Gerbil and custom ports
- Trying out the Nurosym vagus nerve stimulator for a couple of weeks
- We Are Terrible at Online Identity Management (or: Using Emails as An Identifier Was a Bad Move)
- Good computer networking kit
- Aiming for downtime
- What if downloads are not actually non-rivalrous?
- Replacing OpenVPN with Wireguard, including on Synology devices
- Mesh on a budget: converting RBR50 to RBS50 units and using LBR20 for 4G fallback
- Moog Minitaur: the editor and exclusive USB lock
- Subscriptions for software and commodity fetishism
- How to fix a broken Crumar Bit99 synthesizer
- Running the PreSonus Quantum interfaces on Windows 7
- A missing audio hardware device
- M-Audio Trigger Finger Pro synchronisation problems
- An important note if you have a Lenovo G580
- How to do a hard reset on a Jaybird Reign
- Disable "incoming call" voice announcement on the Nexus 6
- "A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
- Tied to the mast? A response to RMS's principles for loyal computers
- Discussing/annotating The History Manifesto and the open access effect(?)
- Things academia.edu (@academia) should do (hint: work with green OA)
- "Every generation has its philosopher"
- Why I'm a fan of open source software: An argument by anecdote/example
- Fixing broken spellcheck in Thunderbird 24
- Using git in my writing workflow
- Can't receive emails from Hotmail: fixing their buggy DNS process
- Astrid and Producteev
- Quibbling with the LRB over "Hackers"
- Re-Decentralizing the Web
- What app.net has to teach scholarly publishing: altruism has been forgotten and everything is a "product"
- Another great source for free images to use in blogging
- Beware the next wave of academic publishing grimness: apps.
- Wikipedia Stats Visualized
- Wordpress for Academics
- I've gone to IPv6
- Protecting Your Assets: Backing up your Academic Work
- Forthcoming workshops: academic websites & protecting your assets!
- The Nobel Prize for Literature 2011 Hoax
- Dropbox: you've missed the real problem
- Upcoming Workshop: Inbox zero and tech-task lists: getting things done
- Things to do when you get a new Android phone
- Richard Stallman at the University of Sussex
- Open Hardware: the Netgear WNR3500L
- Android and Eduroam
- On #PhDchat: Call for Collaboration/History, Overview, Themes and Response
- What has social media ever done for me?
- OCZ RevoDrive on Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI
- Getting a custom Sync Service and Adapter to show up under "Data and Synchronization" on Android
- Mendeley Android Client: now implemented as a user account with sync
- Using Producteev to manage overbearing Inboxes
- Converting Zotero Documents to Mendeley
- The Problems of Copyleft, Twitter and Tweets
- Using British Library wifi when DHCP fails
- Using tech to help with structure
- Dark cloud looming
- Thomas Pynchon critical bibliography Zotero group
- Convert Excel to Serif Webplus SDB format
Thomas Pynchon (74)
- ‘Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely’: Serious Openings and Subversive Epigraphs in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
- Thomas Pynchon, from S-Gerät to Y-Gerät
- A hypothesis: kernel function density estimation and graphing may predict literary critical attention
- Did Thomas Pynchon write Cow Country? Stylistic affinities and divergences
- Undergraduates, digital humanities, and visualization: looking back on my early visualizations of Gravity's Rainbow
- New review published of Joanna Freer, Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture
- 'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
- Visualizing Gravity's Rainbow
- Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel: Late Pynchon's Academics
- Two free copies of "Pynchon and Philosophy" to win and/or a 25% discount
- First Impressions From Paul Thomas Anderson’s film of ‘Inherent Vice‘
- Book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
- Publication: Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology
- My forthcoming book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave, 2014)
- Publication: "Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld"
- On International Pynchon Week
- Pynchon in Public Day 2013
- More on new Thomas Pynchon novel, Bleeding Edge
- Historical Sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society now available for download (Green Open Access)
- Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodernism?'
- New Pynchon Novel! Fall 2013: "Bleeding Edge"
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
- New Orbit review: American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, by Theophilus Savvas
- Orbit 1.2 is now "open" and our "rolling format" is live
- Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History (review)', Textual Practice, 26, 5
- Conference paper: 'Opening children's eyes': Overloaded Forms and the Didactic Function (Westminster University)
- Conference Panel: Pynchon Now (Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar)
- "Karl Marx, that sly old racist"
- Publication: 'Whose line is it anyway?: enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon', Textual Practice, 26, 5
- Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and 21st-Century Utopianism (presentation)
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is now digitally preserved by CLOCKSS
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is live
- International Pynchon Week 2013 Conference: Website and CFP
- Is this a picture of Thomas Pynchon aged 51?
- An update on Orbit 1.1
- Pynchon in Public Day 2012: our meetup details
- New York Times writes about my Ph.D. thesis work!
- Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, Materialism and Negative Dialectics, 28-29 May, 2012, Northumbria University
- My review of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon at Berfrois
- Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and Twenty-First-Century Utopianism, 16-18 July, 2012, University of Lincoln
- It's not P.T. Anderson, but someone has started an Inherent Vice adaptation
- Pynchon Character Etymology: Étienne Cherdlu
- The only known inscribed Pynchon book with a presentation letter
- A minor correction to Anne Mangel's "Maxwell's Demon, Entropy, Information: The Crying of Lot 49"
- Publication: 'Historical Sources for Pynchon’s Peter Pinguid Society', Pynchon Notes, 56-57 (Spring-Fall 2009 (2011)), pp. 242-245
- Pynchon's Friends in Gravity's Rainbow
- Conference Paper: 'It sure's hell looked like war': Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld', 2010-06-09, University of Lublin
- Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon
- A Thomas Pynchon tattoo recruit
- The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 2
- Conference paper: Geo-specificity of Enlightenment in Mason & Dixon, 2011-06-24, University of Glasgow
- More Pynchonalia
- A Brief Intro Pynchon Bibliography (Biographical and Gravity's Rainbow)
- Photograph and Interview in the Guardian
- On Pynchon and Privacy
- Pynchon in Public Day 2011
- Delay to Report on First UKPN Meeting
- Speaking plainly
- Conference paper: “The Driver's Whip is an evil thing”: Enlightenment as Mass Enslavement in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, 2011-06-17, University of Portsmouth
- My recent work at Berfrois
- Conference Paper: "The F Word", 2011-04-01, University of Durham
- UK Pynchon Network: Site Up and Programme Announced
- What is Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow about?
- CFP: First Conference of the UK Academic Pynchon Network
- Pynchon reference in the Economist
- A Statistical History of UK Pynchon Doctorates
- Where to start with Thomas Pynchon?
- My navy days with Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
- International Pynchon Week 2010: Day 3
- International Pynchon Week: Day 2
- International Pynchon Week: Day 1
- International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts
- Thomas Pynchon critical bibliography Zotero group