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Vaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use
17 September 2026
More on dual-licensing of digital OA books
4 June 2026
What is actually licensed in print/digital dual-licensed books?
3 June 2026
Things I have made (KC IDMS in place, Lower Decks conference, and quote in ResearchProfessional)
21 May 2026
Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
28 December 2025
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
26 December 2025
What is a University Press?
8 June 2025
Work in progress: 'Rage Against the Machine: The Politics of Open Access, Large Language Models, and the Reaction Against Open'
11 April 2025
Open Journals Collective: Making Open Access a Reality at Scale
2 April 2025
On dropping the REF OA mandate for books (this time)
15 August 2024
Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books
21 June 2024
Why Lever Press?
14 September 2023
The latest Ithaka S+R draft report is hugely regressive
20 July 2023
Small publishers and subscribe to open
1 September 2022
Notes on 'Plan S for Shock'
31 January 2022
Did you know that you can deposit the version of record of Bloomsbury Academic book chapters in your institutional repository?
14 January 2022
Open access is building a one-time, shared, international library collection
13 January 2022
On informed consent and open licensing
16 December 2021
What is the relationship between legal form, governance, and ethics?
6 December 2021
All ten of my books now are (or will be when published) open access
4 December 2021
The proliferation of business models for open-access books
23 September 2021
What’s happening at the moment with open-access books?
21 May 2021
cOAlition S endorsing Subscribe to Open is a great start. We need the same thinking about books from the beginning.
3 May 2021
An update on the reprint of my book
28 April 2021
Questions and Answers from UKSG on Opening the Future
13 April 2021
OA books being reprinted under CC BY license
2 March 2021
The Publisher's Association's impact assessment on OA is pretty much as you'd expect
17 February 2021
The Open Library of Humanities and Brexit: VAT Position
25 January 2021
On the costs of scholarly communications and the discourse of 'fairness'
8 January 2021
Backlist to the Future: a new business model for university presses and open-access books
22 October 2020
On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access
21 October 2020
Some reflections on the politics of open peer review
7 August 2020
The Emergence of Threat Infrastructures: Plan S and Behavioral Change
3 July 2020
Reading ‘The Democratisation Myth’ and thinking through decolonial OA
21 June 2020
On the overhead of 'business models'
29 May 2020
If I could radically reshape copyright law for research
23 May 2020
On academic journals as clubs
21 May 2020
Notes on Raym Crow. (2009). Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. SPARC.
21 May 2020
On business model generation for open access monographs
14 May 2020
Transformative agreements in the time of COVID-19
9 May 2020
On critical design and designing for provocation
9 May 2020
On participatory design in library architecture
4 May 2020
Is ‘the money in the system’?
28 April 2020
Why academic bookstores?
24 April 2020
Museums continue to make third-party licensing for academic scholarship a total pain
23 April 2020
On ‘The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge’
20 April 2020
Notes on Susan Leigh Star’s ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’
19 April 2020
Subscribe to Open and Plan S
9 April 2020
On Springer and APCs 'in the wild'
9 April 2020
Close Reading with Computers is now open access at Stanford University Press
7 April 2020
On a challenge of print subsidy for OA
26 March 2020
My draft response to the UKRI OA consultation
27 February 2020
Open access monographs and the REF-after-REF 2021
14 February 2020
Key Points from The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document
13 February 2020
The T&F buyout of F1000 neutralizes the Plan S threat infrastructures
12 January 2020
The second OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: Natural language generation and authorial labour
4 December 2019
The first OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: The Critique of Metamodernism
2 December 2019
A brief note on the RHS Plan S report
24 October 2019
An expensive but possible way to do Society OA
25 September 2019
A thought experiment: do we really care about the type of scholarly publishing entity?
22 September 2019
The Problems of Unit Costs Per Article
19 September 2019
Learned Societies, Open Access and Budgetary Cross-Subsidy
17 September 2019
When infrastructural support clashes with DORA and good research assessment practices
4 September 2019
The British Academy response misrepresents Plan S and OA
24 July 2019
Old Traditions and New Technologies
7 June 2019
Thoughts on academic prestige and institutional solvency
23 May 2019
Text of Digital Library Futures keynote (Cambridge, 21st May 2019)
21 May 2019
Learned Societies Plan S report and a note on double dipping
9 April 2019
A little more on defamation and CC BY
24 January 2019
Additional points in my Plan S response
23 January 2019
My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
21 January 2019
Comments on the interim Royal Historical Society response to Plan S
17 January 2019
Some jottings on academic freedom and Plan S/open access
23 October 2018
On the practical implementation of Plan S
3 October 2018
Where we are with the OA monograph mandate for the Third Research Excellence Framework
1 July 2018
Transparency agendas are being used to legislate against consortial open-access models even though it has good cost outcomes
3 June 2018
On the OA "mandate" for books in the Third REF and the worry over trade books
2 April 2018
The Tender Document for the European Commission's Open Access Platform Asks for an Awful Lot for Not Very Much
1 April 2018
How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model
21 January 2018
Open Access Resources and Evaluation; or: why OA journals might fare badly in terms of conventional usage
19 January 2018
Cambridge University Press and Censorship
21 August 2017
Open Access Monographs Misrepresented
3 August 2017
Dear Walt
23 June 2017
If I still subscribed to Elsevier's Lingua, I'd demand a refund
29 May 2017
On consortial OA funding models and renewals
24 April 2017
100 people in a room: on the distributional effects of different open-access funding models
3 April 2017
Librarian Evaluation of Non-APC OA Models in the Age of Open Access
1 April 2017
On the economics of flipping subscription journals
11 March 2017
How much does it cost to run a small scholarly publisher?
13 February 2017
My responses to the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework
6 January 2017
Four implementation questions about open access and monographs
3 January 2017
Learned societies in the humanities, open access, and paying for disciplinary goods
2 January 2017
The rivalrous parts of non-rivalrous digital forms
1 January 2017
Referring Elsevier/RELX to the Competition and Markets Authority
3 December 2016
What we mean when we ask whether open access is sustainable
24 November 2016
Questions about APC-free models
18 November 2016
'But the public don't need access to humanities research'
6 November 2016
Some of the arguments, counter-arguments, and political alignments for and against open access
4 November 2016
More on my experience with Open Book Publishers
18 October 2016
A few initial notes on David Golumbia's 'Marxism and Open Access in the Humanities'
3 October 2016
Why Open Book Publishers for my next book?
26 August 2016
'Paying it forward' to fund scholarly communications?
24 August 2016
Aren't you just being driven by technology?
16 August 2016
Consortial funding and downward price pressure for open access
16 June 2016
What do we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms 'sustainable'?
23 May 2016
Embargoing metadata?
27 April 2016
Open access in a time of illness
7 April 2016
The postponed REF consultation document
18 February 2016
On speed and open access
17 February 2016
Accreditation and research-assessment practices (on DORA and the Tickell review)
15 February 2016
An old tradition and a new technology: notes on why open access remains hard
9 February 2016
Why handling Book Processing Charges from a purchasing library is hard
5 February 2016
These games we play (in ScholComms)
8 January 2016
Some numbers on book processing charge scalability
17 November 2015
Two fundamental challenges for a transition to open-access monographs
6 November 2015
Clarifying a few facts for Elsevier and their response to Lingua
5 November 2015
Academia.edu’s peer-review experiments
26 October 2015
Re-hosting the 2014 British Academy report on OA Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
17 October 2015
A final example to show that misquotation is nothing to do with open licensing
6 September 2015
Researchers are altering their methods because of uncertainty over Creative Commons licenses
22 August 2015
Additional contexts for reading the emergence of new UK university presses
19 August 2015
APCs and Uneven Distribution
17 June 2015
Applications now open for OpenCon 2015
1 June 2015
Flipping journals to OA while supporting existing OA publications
31 May 2015
Dissemination and Assessment: Open Access, Reputation and Economics
31 May 2015
Thoughts in response to Michael Chibnik's editorial on OA and American Anthropologist
25 May 2015
Scalability, Sustainability, Market Responsiveness and Mandates in OA
4 May 2015
Gearing up for OLH in the UK and the resolution to the VAT question
24 April 2015
What does the academic monograph market look like for a new open-access publisher?
23 April 2015
Publishers: Serving Authors or Readers?
5 April 2015
Publication: Co-operating for gold open access without APCs
5 March 2015
Ethics of a Journal's Surplus
27 February 2015
How can Elsevier claim that its OA revenue stream is separate from subscriptions in a hybrid environment?
14 February 2015
Financing for fee-driven gold open access
6 February 2015
On open-access books and “double dipping”
31 January 2015
The HEFCE report on Open Access Monographs: some reflections
22 January 2015
Being called to account: tax considerations for UK-based collectively-funded open access publishers
20 January 2015
Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry) reviews Open Access and the Humanities
18 January 2015
Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
15 January 2015
Online p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ webinar to talk open access with @mweller and me: Tuesday 16th December 3pm
15 December 2014
Gold Open Access and Article Processing Charges: Point of Risk and the Risk Pool
10 December 2014
The tension between dissemination and measurement
1 December 2014
Book: Open Access and the Humanities
27 November 2014
Above and beyond: “good” and “bad” surpluses in academic publishing
22 November 2014
Discussing/annotating The History Manifesto and the open access effect(?)
5 November 2014
We're a small learned society charging £25. What are we doing wrong?: OA for small society journals
2 November 2014
Pondering a solution to the problem of Learned Societies and the transition to open access
4 October 2014
Academic Libraries and Non-Disclosure Clauses: institutions should internally mandate against them
15 September 2014
Is open access a "solution without a problem" for the humanities?
13 September 2014
University Presses and Commercial Publishers should start offering green OA for monographs
8 September 2014
Things academia.edu (@academia) should do (hint: work with green OA)
5 September 2014
What's so moral about the "moral rights" of copyright for academics?
4 September 2014
Why do some academic publishers think they should charge extra for more liberal licenses (CC BY)?
3 September 2014
Does Amazon kill a revenue channel for open access monographs?
3 September 2014
Forthcoming book: Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge UP, 2014)
1 September 2014
Publication: All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities Disciplines
5 August 2014
Open access: effective measures to put UK research online under threat?
28 July 2014
My short additional response to the HEFCE metrics consultation
19 June 2014
A research tool I want (but probably won't get): cross-reference/intersect bibliographies of books and articles
3 June 2014
Open Access, Monographs and "working for publishers for free"
30 April 2014
An Open Library of Humanities? Adeline Koh interviews me at the Chronicle's ProfHacker
22 April 2014
Openness for society or for profit?
19 April 2014
What do we mean by the "standing" and "reach" of research?
17 April 2014
Alluvium 2nd Birthday Panel Event
16 April 2014
Funding for the Open Library of Humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
7 April 2014
Designing an open source OA toolchain for books
1 April 2014
Why OA mandates don't compromise academic freedom
1 April 2014
HEFCE's Post-2014 Open Access Policy: the short "what you need to know" version
31 March 2014
Predatory Publishers: Not Just OA (and who loses out?)
25 February 2014
What's it like to publish in SAGE Open?
12 February 2014
HEFCE (REF2020), IR deposit and embargoes
10 February 2014
Publication: Utopia Fading: Taxonomies, Freedom and Dissent in Open Access Publishing
20 December 2013
Gov and RCUK responses to Open Access Inquiry: eradicating non-disclosure clauses
26 November 2013
First meeting of HEFCE Expert Reference Group on Open Access Monographs
20 November 2013
Three reasons why I think journal prestige is a broken system
16 November 2013
How ironic are the open access irony awards?
21 October 2013
What's "open" got to do with it?
3 October 2013
Work on open access technology, get a masters degree in Computer Science: funded place
9 September 2013
What is it like to publish in the journal 'Neo-Victorian Studies'?
1 September 2013
Full response to Science-Metrix report on gold OA citation rates
29 August 2013
SXSW Panel: Vote to get Open Access on the agenda
27 August 2013
Reports from the frontline of humanities OA in Japan
24 August 2013
Has "the licensing battle been deferred" in the latest HEFCE document?
2 August 2013
HEFCE, the State of Open Access in the UK and Post-2014 REF
27 July 2013
Joining the UK National Monographs Strategy Expert Panel
21 July 2013
Speaking at SPARC Japan
17 July 2013
Evaluating the Open Access software toolchain
7 July 2013
Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats?
5 July 2013
Publication: 'Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors'
2 July 2013
Publication: 'Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review'
1 July 2013
Internationalisation of New Open Access Initiatives
27 April 2013
Historical Sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society now available for download (Green Open Access)
15 April 2013
I'm appearing before the House of Commons BIS Select Committee into Open Access
15 April 2013
Futurity, Books, Marx, Labour
25 March 2013
The Future of Peer Review
15 March 2013
Open Access, "Neoliberalism", "Impact" and the Privatisation of Knowledge
10 March 2013
House of Commons BIS Inquiry on Open Access Evidence Published
9 March 2013
Conference Paper: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and Open Access Publishing" (Lincoln University)
24 January 2013
Q&A with me in Library Journal: Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences
16 January 2013
On Opposition to *any* APC model
13 January 2013
An update on the PLOHSS project
13 January 2013
Call For Participants to Build a PLOS-style Model for the Humanities and Social Sciences
9 January 2013
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
21 December 2012
On /That/ Statement by History Journal Editors
20 December 2012
Judging the Safety of an Open Access Journal
21 November 2012
The Grim Phoenix: The New Challenges for Open Access
22 October 2012
Crude, but helpful, typesetting script from meXml
19 October 2012
Orbit 1.2 is now "open" and our "rolling format" is live
19 October 2012
Relativize and Historicize: Open Access, Article Processing Charges and Transparency
13 September 2012
What will the Humanities do Post-Finch? (or: where are the OA venues?)
8 September 2012
Open Access needs terminology to distinguish between funding models: Platinum OA/Gold NON-APC
31 August 2012
What app.net has to teach scholarly publishing: altruism has been forgotten and everything is a "product"
14 August 2012
Mythbusting: "A Proposed List — 60 Things Journal Publishers Do"
24 July 2012
Gold Open Access does **NOT** mean: "author pays"
16 July 2012
Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide. Table of contents.
13 July 2012
Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 5
13 July 2012
Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 4
13 July 2012
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is now digitally preserved by CLOCKSS
13 July 2012
Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 3
12 July 2012
Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 2
11 July 2012
Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 1
10 July 2012
Publication: 'Tear it down, build it up: the Research Output Team, or the library-as-publisher', Insights, 25, 2 (July 2012), pp. 158-162
9 July 2012
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is live
9 July 2012
The part of the open access debate that is, irritatingly, ignored
28 June 2012
Beware the next wave of academic publishing grimness: apps.
21 May 2012
An update on Orbit 1.1
2 May 2012
Video of my #uksglive presentation on the future of academic publishing
11 April 2012
The future of academic publishing Q&A
9 April 2012
UKSG Conference: photos and slides
4 April 2012
I am joining the OAPEN-UK, Open Access Monograph, Steering Group
3 April 2012
The problems for small Open Access journals in terms of digital preservation
30 March 2012
Podcast on Open Source, Open Access publishing
27 February 2012
More thoughts on metrics, link-rot, canonical URLs
4 February 2012
DOIs: What you need to know
3 February 2012
Project idea/request for comment: OpenDOI
2 February 2012
Open Access Week at the University of Sussex
25 October 2011
Immanent critique of closed access publication
2 September 2011
Guest post at PhD2Published
31 August 2011
Postgraduate Publishing
19 August 2011
Conference Paper: "Autosubversive Practices in Academic Publishing", UKSG, 2012-03-26
4 August 2011
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon
11 July 2011
Is academic work commercial? How does this affect libre licensing?
28 June 2011
Guarding your academic ideas
18 May 2011
Getting Published in Academia
11 March 2011
The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish
18 January 2011
Researchers, Libraries and Publishers: What does the future hold?
1 December 2010
Notes and Presentation from my Open Access talk
24 October 2010
Speaking of Open Access...
28 September 2010
Upcoming journal publishing workshop
1 September 2010