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Open access and academic publishing – an interview with Dr. Martin Paul Eve
No full textThe current state of academic publishing is something we should all be thinking about, given that it’s a means of disseminating the knowledge generated by academic research — much of which is publicly funded yet inaccessible to the public. Publishing is also significant because of the key role it plays in academic careers, where it serves as a gatekeeping mechanism.
Changes to academic publishing both reflect, and contribute to, broader trends within academe; and they point to a range of critical questions. Within the contexts and constraints of established institutions and practices, what possibilities are opened up by recent technologies and new organisational forms? How could publishing change in (and differ across) the various academic areas and fields? How might the increased competition for academic jobs, and the smaller proportion of scholars with permanent positions, affect publishing and associated labour? Can we maintain the accessibility and quality of publications and the process of peer review while also ensuring compensation for the work involved? What about digital publication and circulation – will (paywalled) journal publishing eventually become obsolete?
This post explores some of those questions by way of an interview with Professor Martin Paul Eve, who is an all-round expert on, and active promoter of, open access academic publishing. Professor Eve is chair of literature, technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. Among many other things, Professor Eve also gave evidence to the U.K. government’s business, innovation and skills committee inquiry into open access, in 2013, and with Dr. Caroline Edwards he is a co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities (OLH), in which 16 Canadian institutions are already participating. The following interview focuses on OLH and on the issues of access to knowledge (in the form of peer-reviewed research) that underlie its creation
A Public Library of the Humanities? An interview with Martin Paul Eve
No full textThis is the tenth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Duke University Press, Anvil Academic, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press
Martin Paul Eve on talking disability activism with Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Judith Butler
No full textI have spent much of this week thinking about disability activism. I was spurred to this by Naomi Lawson Jacobs who was excluded this week from attending a lecture by Judith Butler at UCL because she uses a mobility scooter. At late notice, the talk was moved to a larger lecture theatre so that more people could attend. However, the new venue was not accessible.
I signed Jacobs’ open letter and suggested that she write to Judith Butler. Between us, we agreed that I would write and copy Naomi Jacobs in. To my great surprise, Butler replied almost immediately saying she was appalled and that she was trying to get the venue changed. When this proved impossible at the last minute, Butler instead made a statement at the start of her talk noting that she felt that this was probably illegal under the Equalities Act 2010 and offered to meet with those affected.
And so, on Friday afternoon, a small group of us met with Judith at Birkbeck, in the School of Arts, to talk about disability activism, ongoing discrimination in universities, and what can be done
OpenFest 2023 Online Symposium Keynote 1 - Martin Paul Eve, Against Austerity
No full textKeynote address from the OpenFest 2023 online symposium 'New Perspectives on Open Research', which took place on 7 September 2023.OpenFest 2023 Online Symposium Keynote 1 - Martin Paul Eve, Against AusterityAbstract:Arguments for open access are usually split along two axes: the educational and the financial. On the former, it is easy to see that the progress of science and scholarship is advanced by easy, free access to research. A more equitable system of educational access benefits everyone. However, on the second front, it is also argued that open access should be less expensive for libraries, signalling the end of the serials crisis. In this talk, using data from 7 million article records, I examine the publishing practices of scholarly publishers at different levels of revenue, clearly showing that professional publishers, with high levels of revenue, consistently perform better at tasks such as digital preservation. While remaining committed to not-for-profit and mission-driven solutions, I argue that there are more important challenges for open access publishing than merely reducing costs.Martin Paul Eve is the principal R&D developer at Crossref and the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at the University of London's Birkbeck College. He is well known for his work in open-access policy circles, having founded the Open Library of Humanities, as well as authoring nine books, all openly accessible, including Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. In 2018, Martin was awarded the KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences; in 2019, he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Literary Studies; and, in 2021, Martin was named by the Shaw Trust as one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK.</p
La tapisserie royale des «Cerfs-Volants»
No full textMartin Paul. La tapisserie royale des «Cerfs-Volants». In: Bulletin Monumental, tome 105, n°2, année 1947. pp. 197-208
VIP Professor Martin Paul, President, Maastricht University, Kingdom of the Netherlands
No full textVIP Professor Martin Paul, President, Maastricht University, Kingdom of the Netherland
Gabriel Spillebout, Grammaire de la langue française du XVIIe siècle, Collection Connaissance des Langues, Picard éditeurs
No full textMartin Paul. Gabriel Spillebout, Grammaire de la langue française du XVIIe siècle, Collection Connaissance des Langues, Picard éditeurs. In: L'Information Grammaticale, N. 27, 1985. pp. 29-30
Gabriel Spillebout, Grammaire de la langue française du XVIIe siècle, Collection Connaissance des Langues, Picard éditeurs
No full textMartin Paul. Gabriel Spillebout, Grammaire de la langue française du XVIIe siècle, Collection Connaissance des Langues, Picard éditeurs. In: L'Information Grammaticale, N. 27, 1985. pp. 29-30
Jean-Pierre Néraudau
No full textMartin Paul-Marius. Jean-Pierre Néraudau. In: Vita Latina, N°153, 1999. p. 72
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