Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge

In preparation for the 129th Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association in January 2014 at Chicago, I have self-archived a green open access post-print version of the full-length journal article from which my paper will be drawing. The article was published in a special issue on "Contemporary British Fiction" edited by Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University) in the journal Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 58, Number 3 (Fall 2012) [see here for access via Project Muse]. Please click on the "download pdf" button below to view this article in a larger format.    Download (PDF, 280KB)  ...

Open Access Week

In my capacity as Co-Director for the Open Library of Humanities publishing project I was asked to give several talks around Open Access Week 2013. These included the following: "Non-traditional research outputs" (invited lecture as part of a workshop on intellectual property), 12th...

Monograph Publishing

I was recently invited to give a talk as part of a panel on "Promising Business Models" at the Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference, with my colleague and Co-Director of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Dr Martin Paul Eve. The OLH is...

Harvard Lecture

On Thursday 27th June 2013, I was invited to deliver a guest lecture at Harvard University with my colleague Dr Martin Paul Eve (with whom I direct the Open Library of Humanities). The lecture was co-sponsored by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Mahindra...

Times Higher

The debate over "gold" open access in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) was explored in February in the Times Higher Education cover story. The article featured interview material with Dr Martin Paul Eve and myself, as Academic Project Directors of the Open Library of...