At The New Everyday: The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life

I am very happy to announce the publication of a new cluster at MediaCommons' The New Everyday: "The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life" edited and curated by David N. Wright and myself.

At HASTAC: #OpenAccess Is Not Just for Christmas

A post inspired by "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science", an opinion piece at the Guardian by Professor Randy Sheckman, 2013 Nobel prize winner in physiology or medicine.

The Web in Practice: Blogging at City University

I have a blog hosted at City where I try to post updates about what we are doing in the course. In my latest post there I announce I have set up a new practice blog that only students and I can access, so they can practice without the anxieties of publicness.

SpotOn London 2013: Interdisciplinary research: what can scientists, humanists and social scientists learn from each other?

This year’s SpotOn London conference will take place at the British Library. I'll be participating in a workshop on science and HSS collaboration on Friday 8 November 2013.

Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences; The Conversation

Today I'm attending the Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences event at Senate House, University of London. Last night The Conversation UK published a piece by me in their "Hard Evidence" section, which they titled "Is open access working?".

At the LSE Impact Blog: Towards Fairer Access to Research

My piece “Open Access: Towards Fairer Access to Research” is up on the Impact of Social Sciences blog. It will also appear in the eCollection in for the Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference on Thursday 24 October 2013 in Senate House, University of London. Printed copies will be available as well as electronic versions then.

At the LSE Impact Blog: “Predatory journals and defective peer review are general academic problems, not just open access problems.”

The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog published my rebuttal of that Science magazine article on predatory journals.