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2016 was a year of mixed fortune for me. On the positive side, OLH continues to grow, I was made a (full) Professor, and I published two books. On the downside, I was seriously ill, suffering a stroke linked to vasculitis in March, from which I have made a near-full recovery. I've enjoyed working with my PhD students, though, and am looking forward to a less eventful 2017!
Books
Journal Articles
- Moore, Samuel, Neylon, Cameron, Eve, Martin Paul, O'Donnell, Daniel, and Pattinson, Damian, “Excellence R Us: University Research and the Fetishisation of Excellence”, Palgrave Communications, 2017 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “JSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in ‘an Orison of Sonmi ~451’”, Journal of Open Humanities Data (2), 2016 [Download]
- Sussman, Mark, and Eve, Martin Paul, “‘A Shorthand of Stars’: From John to Thomas Pynchon”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 4(2), 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “‘You have to keep track of your changes’: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas”, Open Library of Humanities 2(2), 2016 [Download Appendix A] [Download Appendix B] [Download Appendix C: JSON data] [Download Full text]
Book Chapters
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access in the United Kingdom”, in Praxishandbuch Open Access, ed. by Söllner, Konstanze, and Mittermaier, Bernhard (De Gruyter: 2017) [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Openness, Politics and Power”, in Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education, ed. by Winn, Joss, and Hall, Richard (Bloomsbury: 2017) [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Structures, Signposts, and Plays: Modernist Anxieties & Postmodern Influences in Tom McCarthy's C”, in Tom McCarthy: Critical Essays, ed. by Duncan, Dennis (Gylphi: 2016) [Email me to read]
Other Articles and Blog Posts
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Introducing Cemmento: A digital preservation tool for annotations”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The thing that's gone missing in the revisions to the REF consultation between February and December 2016: the 5* category”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Points from my first reading of the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Five un-busted aspects of the TEF”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Referring Elsevier/RELX to the Competition and Markets Authority”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “What we mean when we ask whether open access is sustainable”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Martin Eve on The Man Who Knew Infinity”, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Next book project: The Aesthetics of Metadata: Redaction, Reference, & the Archive in Contemporary Fiction”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Questions about APC-free models”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The single largest challenge for information publishing in the digital age”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “But the public don't need access to humanities research”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Some of the arguments, counter-arguments, and political alignments for and against open access”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “My new book, Literature Against Criticism, is published today”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “More on my experience with Open Book Publishers”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Fifield, Peter, “Martin Eve & Peter Fifield on ‘No’s Knife’ at the Old Vic”, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Gjengedal, Kjerstin, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Jakt på «excellence» skadar forskinga”, Forskerforum, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Now accepting proposals to 'New Horizons in Contemporary Writing' series”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “A few initial notes on David Golumbia's 'Marxism and Open Access in the Humanities'”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Peer review in the open-access humanities”, Cambridge University Press Core Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Of LaTeX and labour”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Martin Eve on Ben Jonson, The Alchemist at The Barbican”, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Scholar, meet Author – Author, meet Scholar...”, Times Literary Supplement Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Starczewski, Michał, “Dyskursy akademickie zostały ukształtowane przez materialne formy upowszechniania wiedzy”, Otwarta Nauka, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Why Open Book Publishers for my next book?”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “'Paying it forward' to fund scholarly communications?”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Solym, Clément, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Cloud Atlas : des versions ‘presque incomparables’ du roman de David Mitchell”, ActuaLitté, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Password”, Bloomsbury Literature Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Starczewski, Michał, “Academic discourses have been shaped by the material forms of dissemination”, Otwarta Nauka, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Aren't you just being driven by technology?”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Schelstraete, Inge, and Eve, Martin Paul, “David Mitchell minimaliseert verschillen tussen edities van 'Cloud Atlas'”, De Standaard, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Book Groups Beware”, Material Texts Network Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Computational reading as 'reading against the reader'”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Matthews, David, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Stern’s review of the REF: what will it mean for academics?”, Times Higher Education, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Flood, Alison, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions, study finds”, Guardian, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Have you read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas? If so, which of the two very different versions?”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Stern and REF: assessing the past to fund the future with non-portability”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- McKenzie, Lindsay, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Stern review leaves early-career researchers cold”, Research Fortnight, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Ansell, Maddalaine, McQuillan, Martin, Eve, Martin Paul, Tatlow, Pam, Wilsdon, James, and Arrowsmith, Jamie, “A kinder, gentler REF? Reflections on Stern”, Wonkhe, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “My book, Password, is out now”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “On the ownership, portability and accreditation of research”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The Stern review of REF”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Martin Eve on William Gaddis’s JR”, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Overriding AngularJS directives' isolate scopes”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Continuing javascript execution after total DOM body replacement using DOM mutation observers”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Havergal, Chris, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Two-thirds of UK academics back open access, survey finds”, Times Higher Education, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Selecting specified text ranges in a browser using javascript and xpath”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Creating a generic loader for Annotator.js plugins inside a hypothes.is extension project”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “CaSSius now supports full headless PDF creation from JATS XML”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Consortial funding and downward price pressure for open access”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Matthews, David, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Focus on research ‘excellence’ is ‘damaging science’”, Times Higher Education, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Initial parsing work on large JSON corpus”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Identifying 26GB of JSON Novel Data”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Martin Eve on Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game”, Birkbeck, Department of English and Humanities Blog, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Coping with Illness”, Times Higher Education, 2016 [Email me to read]
- Eve, Martin Paul, Pöhlmann, Sascha, de Bourcier, Simon, Freer, Joanna, and Haynes, Doug, “Announcing the Digital Availability of Pynchon Notes”, Orbit: Writing around Pynchon 4(1), 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “What do we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms 'sustainable'?”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Reading Potter Stewart on recognition”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Hypothes.is v0.8.14 error: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “On neural networks and health data privacy”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Transcript of meeting between Elsevier and the Minister for Higher Education in the UK, Jo Johnson”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Overriding hypothesis's interface the right way”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Embargoing metadata?”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The Faber Finds edition of Rex Warner's The Professor is very poorly formatted and proofed”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open access in a time of illness”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “I have suffered from an episode of cerebral vasculitis and a stroke”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “It looks unlikely that UK universities are going to get out of the Freedom of Information Act”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The critique of utopia”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “A world reimagined without the university”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Evolving notes on the political philosophy of David Willetts”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The postponed REF consultation document”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “On speed and open access”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Trying to understand Ofqual's inter-subject comparability Rasch model tests for easy/hard subjects at GCSE and A-Level”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Accreditation and research-assessment practices (on DORA and the Tickell review)”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “On ten years of chronic illness”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Undergraduates, digital humanities, and visualization: looking back on my early visualizations of Gravity's Rainbow”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “An old tradition and a new technology: notes on why open access remains hard”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Why handling Book Processing Charges from a purchasing library is hard”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “A Brave New World of Open Access Publishing”, Institute of Development Studies, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Institutional Finance and Academic Freedom”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Ph.D. criterion: to 'merit publication'”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The methodology of literary taxonomy: HARKing and p-hacking”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “These games we play (in ScholComms)”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The UK copyright exemption for text and data mining vs. the DMCA and EUCD”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “HE Green Paper: response to question 28”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “My response to the HE Green Paper”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
- Eve, Martin Paul, “HE Green Paper: response to question 27”, martineve.com, 2016 [Download]
Conference Papers/Events
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access in the Humanities: What, Why, and How”, Digital Art History Research Group, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access in the Humanities and a New Funding Model”, 7ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira Sobre Acesso Aberto, Instituto Politécnico De Viseu, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Blank Generation: Encryption and Metadata in the Network of Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack”, Literary Networks and Cultural Collaborations: From 19th Century to the Present Day, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “A New Model for Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities One Year On”, City, University of London Open Access Week 2016, City, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access Week: Birkbeck, University of London 2016”, Open Access Week: Birkbeck, University of London 2016, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access Week: Birkbeck, University of London 2016”, Open Access Week: Birkbeck, University of London 2016, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, Marshall, Diana, Curno, Mirjam, and Verbeke, Demmy, “Open Peer Review”, Open Science on the Move, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and the Open Library of Humanities”, Publishing Now, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Technology and Publishing: The Work of Scholarship in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility”, ASIS&T Webinar, Online, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, Kinney, Alison, Cohen, Jeffrey J., and Walsh, Joanna, “Object Lessons: a conversation about the hidden meaning of ordinary things”, Object Lessons: a conversation about the hidden meaning of ordinary things, Bloomsbury Institute, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The Universal Library: Open Access and Why It Is So Hard”, Electronic Visualization and the Arts Pre Conference Symposium, British Computer Society, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, D’Oca, Gino, and Shaw, Katy, “What does Open Access to Research Mean for the Humanities?”, The Future of the Humanities, Centre for Culture & the Arts, Leeds, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, Blacklock, Mark, Carville, Daragh, and Hankinson, Andrew, “Crime Writers in Conversation”, True Crime Fictions, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Death, Politics and the Archive: the two editions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas”, What Happens Now? 21st-Century Writing in English, University of Lincoln, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access: The State of Play, or why it should be easy but why it isn’t...”, DARTS 5, Dartington Hall, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access: Movement in a Digital World”, Movement in a Digital World, King's College London, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “The Evolving Present of Scholarly Communications”, Library Seminar, Brighton University, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and its Politics”, Media, Film and Screen Studies seminar, Brighton University, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “On Siân Adiseshiah and Louise LePage's Twenty-First-Century Drama (2016)”, What Happens Now? 21st-Century Writing in English, University of Lincoln, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Only Revolutions: The Evolving Present of Scholarly Communications”, Work in Progress Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future”, Interdisciplinary Seminar, UEA, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Passwords: An Abridged and Discontinuous Cultural History”, Queen Mary English Postgraduate Research Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access: What it is and why it matters”, IDS Bulletin Launch Event, The British Library, London, UK, 2016
- Eve, Martin Paul, “Publishing and Technology”, TECHNE Consortium Training Workshop, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2016