El extraño caso de los archivos reaparecidos / The Strange Case of the Reappeared Archives: Carta Abierta/Open Letter: Periódico de Poesía 2007-2018

The undersigned request UNAM makes the complete archive of Periódico de Poesía (including all the issues published between 2007 and 2018, which are currently missing) openly available to the public again.

Parabeln der Pflege: new translation of Parables of Care makes comic about dementia care available to German-speaking audiences

A new translation of Parables of Care (2017) makes comic about creative responses to dementia care available to German speaking audiences

The 2018 Altmetric Top 100 Outputs with ‘Comics’ as Keyword

I share the 2018 Top 100 research outputs with 'comics' as a keyword according to Altmetric.

Convegno di studi: Ricerca scientifica, monopoli della conoscenza e Digital Humanities – Rome

I will be doing an express trip to Rome on Wednesday 24th October 2018 to participate in this event discussing oligopolies of knowledge production.

Openness, Transparency, Accountability: On New Ways of Being Scholarly

On learning to interrogate our own privilege in order to build more transparent, accountable, fairer scholarly organisations.

Documentary Film Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)

We invite you to a free and public screening of the documentary film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (dir. and prod. Jason Schmitt, 2018) at City, University of London, on Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 17:30.

On Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor

A formal complaint to the European Ombudsman has been submitted about the recent announcement that Elsevier, a scholarly publisher and data analytics provider, has been subcontracted to monitor the future progress of Open Science in Europe. You are invited to consider signing it too.

Presenting at Open Access in the Humanities, University of Ljubljana

I will be presenting at the event Open Access in the Humanities event that will take place at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana on 22 May 2018.

Open Scholarship Award (2018) Honorable Mention to Editors of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Dr Peter Wilkins and I received an Open Scholarship Award 2018 Honorable Mention for our Comics Grid work, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners.

The Power of Sharing in English, Spanish and French

I am very happy to announce that today we published 'The Power of Sharing', a comic resulting from the collaboration between figshare, Symbola Comics, and LaGrúa Estudio.