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I wrote, last year, that [2019 was pretty bad for me](https://eve.gd/2019/12/14/my-2019-in-review/). Little did any of us know of the grimness that 2020 would bring with the coronavirus pandemic. I have spent almost all of this year "shielding", which can feel somewhat isolating, although I am fortunate to live with my wife, which ameliorates this greatly. I only venture out every day to walk Toby, the fifteen-year-old Jack Russell terrier whom we adopted from the rescue shelter, two days before going into lockdown. Most problematically, I have not been able to have a battery of required hospital tests that could make me feel a lot better, because the risk is too great. Before lockdown started and the pandemic struck, I also began to suffer from serious depressive symptoms. These were not linked to the pandemic -- although that would have been reason enough! -- but were rather a result of the medications that I must take for my autoimmune conditions. This has, obviously, made this year even tougher. Writing about some of the good things can, every year, feel a little like bragging/showing off. It actually helps me to feel good about what I've done, though, and to take stock of what I have achieved.
The work schedule this year has been hectic to say the least. I will update this graph when the year is done as I still have some hours to add to it, but the green and blue lines represent the hours for which I am contracted, minus annual leave. So, that is: if I had precisely hit the green line or kept pace with the blue, I would have worked all the hours for which I am contracted and taken all my annual leave/College closure days. The red line is the hours I actually worked. The demands of pivoting to online teaching, while I am Birkbeck's Strategic Lead for Digital Education, stacked up. The work on COPIM also took a lot of my time. Perhaps most worryingly, my time tracking points to having spent 79 full working days this year answering email.
<img src="/images/2020.png" alt="2020 work schedule"/>
I had some successes that I want to highlight for attention. In particular, my work package on COPIM launched [Opening the Future](https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/about/), its project to convert university presses to OA business models. This really does represent a way that existing presses could move to OA. If it has widespread uptake, it could be the most significant thing I do in my entire academic career. I also released a music track with one of my all-time musical heroes, Jon Fugler, of 90s electronic band, Fluke. This -- [Night Train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5_DA7Cihg) -- was dream-come-true territory. Of course, the sadness is that there are no nightclubs in which to hear it played. [_Close Reading with Computers_](https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/158876) was also republished this year, in an open-access format. OLH was “highly commended†at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and won Small Digital Publisher of the Year at the Association of Online Publishers. I was elected a Fellow of the English Association.
<h3>Books</h3>
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<p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2022</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26645" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, <i>The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)</a> [submitted]
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30956" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, <i>Warez: The Economic Artforms and Illicit Crafts of the Pirate Topsite Scene</i> (New York, NY: punctum books, 2022)</a> [two weeks left until it's submitted]
</span> </p><p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2021</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27709" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, Cameron Neylon, Daniel O’Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and others, <i>Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)</a> [to be published in January]
<p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2020</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4933/Reassembling-Scholarly-CommunicationsHistories" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, and Jonathan Gray, eds., <i>Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access</i> (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020)</a> [<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/214156" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p>
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<h3 class="sectionheader">Peer-Reviewed Articles</h3>
<div id="peer_reviewed_articles"><p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2020</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-020-00099-8" class="csl-entry">Hosseini, Mohammad, Martin Paul Eve, Bert Gordijn, and Cameron Neylon, ‘MyCites: A Proposal to Mark and Report Inaccurate Citations in Scholarly Publications’, <i>Research Integrity and Peer Review</i>, 5.13 (2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/201170" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17328.2" class="csl-entry">Severin, Anna, Matthias Egger, Martin Paul Eve, and Daniel Hürlimann, ‘Discipline-Specific Open Access Publishing Practices and Barriers to Change: An Evidence-Based Review (Version 2)’, <i>F1000Research</i>, 7.1925 (2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/155005" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10327" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, Paula Clemente Vega, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Lessons From the Open Library of Humanities’, <i>LIBER Quarterly</i>, 30.1 (2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/154720" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.538" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Equivocationary Horseshit: Post-Correlationist Aesthetics and Post-Critical Ethics in the Works of David Foster Wallace’, <i>Open Library of Humanities</i>, 6.1 (2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/153804" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1709713" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of <i>Emerald City</i>’, <i>LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory</i>, 31.1 (2020), 25–41</a> [<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/132295" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></span></p>
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<h3 class="sectionheader">Book Chapters</h3>
<div id="book_chapters"><p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2021</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32199" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘‘Non’-Fiction’, in <i>David Foster Wallace in Context</i>, ed. by Clare Hayes-Brady (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)</a> [accepted]
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40856" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access in the Humanities Disciplines’, in <i>The Bloomsbury Handbook of Digital Humanities</i>, ed. by James O’Sullivan (Bloomsbury, 2021)</a> [accepted]
</span></p><p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2020</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0192" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Violins in the Subway: Scarcity Correlations, Evaluative Cultures, and Disciplinary Authority in the Digital Humanities’, in <i>Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research</i>, ed. by Jennifer Edmond (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020), pp. 105–22</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/134537" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p>
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<h3 class="sectionheader">Other Articles / Media/ Interviews</h3>
<div id="other_articles"><p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2020</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41598" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘On Reassembling Scholarly Communications’, <i>BoOkmArks</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/219218" style="color:green">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-future-of-humanities-research-work-and-oa-mongraphs/" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Future of Humanities Research Work and OA Monographs’, <i>WonkHE</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/216935" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41119" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Open-Access Monograph Conundrum Can Be Solved’, <i>Times Higher Education</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/216014" style="color:green">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40968" class="csl-entry">Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Evolve or Perish’, <i>Research Professional</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-fake-a-19th-century-novel/" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘How to Fake a 19th-Century Novel’, <i>Public Books</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/231598" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-views-of-the-uk-2020-9-open-access-in-the-plague-year/" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access in the Plague Year’, <i>Research Fortnight</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/200313" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011836" class="csl-entry">Penier, Izabella, Martin Paul Eve, and Tom Grady, ‘COPIM – Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs 2020’, <i>Zenodo</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/200061" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32719" class="csl-entry">Matthews, David, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Research Funders Urge Caution over Demanding “Excellenceâ€â€™, <i>Times Higher Education</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31623" class="csl-entry">Bisson, Robin, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Open Access Payments Pose Tracking Problem’, <i>Research Fortnight</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://www.eua.eu/resources/expert-voices/155-how-can-we-afford-open-access-in-the-humanities-disciplines.html" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘How Can We Afford Open Access in the Humanities Disciplines?’, <i>Expert Voices</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/151439" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31032" class="csl-entry">Lem, Pola, Craig Nicholson, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Resolving Plan S Conflicts’, <i>Research Fortnight</i>, 513, 2020, 8–9</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30969" class="csl-entry">Grove, Jack, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Humanities Scholars Warn over UKRI’s Plan for Open-Access Books’, <i>Times Higher Education</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30955" class="csl-entry">Pells, Rachael, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘UKRI Move “Could Be Huge Blow†for Plan S’, <i>Research Professional</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/sites/default/files/%E2%80%A2LT_Newsletter_Feb_2020_11_RGB.pdf" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Literature in the Digital Age’, <i>The Leverhulme Trust Newsletter</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30836" class="csl-entry">McIntyre, Fiona, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘REF Could Demand Compliance with Plan S in Future’, <i>Research Professional</i>, 2020</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2020/01/distance-and-depth.html" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Distance and Depth’, <i>Stanford University Press Blog</i>, 2020</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/134065" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30661" class="csl-entry">Bisson, Robin, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘F1000 Buyout May Have “Strange Consequencesâ€â€™, <i>Research Fortnight</i>, 2020</a></span></p></div>
<h3 class="sectionheader">Conference Papers/Events</h3>
<div id="conference_items"><p class="anitemnewdate genericitem"><span class="prefix bold">2020</span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/42165" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Basic Instinct: On Relatively Simple Computation and Literary Study​’ (presented at the ATNU/IES Virtual Speaker Series, Newcastle University, UK, 2020)</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41970" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Doing It to Ourselves: Pandemic-Proofing Humanities Scholarship’ (presented at the CHASE Virtual Encounters, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/228519" style="color:green">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41619" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘A New Funding Model for Open-Access Monographs’ (presented at the The 15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing, Norway, Online, 2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/219419" style="color:green">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41117" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Opening the Future: Revenue Models for Open-Access Monographs’ (presented at the OPERAS Conference: Opening Up Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: From Promises to Reality, Online, 2020)</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/martin-paul-eve-close-reading-with-computers-stanford-up-2019/" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, and Joanna Taylor, ‘Interview on Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s <i>Cloud Atlas</i>’ (presented at the New Books Network, University of Manchester, UK, 2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/231603" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32208" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, Heather Staines, Emily Farrell, and Vivian Berghahn, ‘OA Books and Business Models​’ (presented at the University Press Redux, University of Cambridge, UK, 2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/172505" style="color:goldenrod">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32045" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Distance and Depth, Computers and Close Reading’ (presented at the CDH Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, 2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/169535" style="color:green">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31622" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Beyond APCs’ (presented at the Beyond APCs: Exploring new, more inclusive business models for open access publishing, Digital Webinar, 2020)</a>
[<a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/159252" style="color:green">Download</a>]</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31537" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Open Library of Humanities and COPIM’ (presented at the Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age, Society for Scholarly Publishing, 2020)</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30929" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Plan S and Alternative Business Models’ (presented at the Modern Law Review meeting, London School of Economics, London, UK, 2020)</a>
</span></p><p class="anitem genericitem"><span class="prefix"> </span><span class="bibitem"> <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30834" class="csl-entry">Eve, Martin Paul, Chris Banks, and Carrie Webster, ‘Plan S: Understanding Challenges and Resolving Conflicts’ (presented at the Research Professional Live 2020: Shaping the Future: Research in an Age of Uncertainty, The Royal Society, London, UK, 2020)</a>
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