Pre-print, Post-print, Publisher’s Version: Who Cares and What Does It Mean for Open Access?

As long as the real, pragmatic obstactles to accessing and reusing academic research are not experienced by more academics, it seems to me like Open Access has a long, long road ahead.

The Open Library of Humanities One Year On: A Chat with Martin Paul Eve

Professor Martin Paul Eve will give a talk titled "A New Model for Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities One Year On" on Thursday 27 October 2016 at City, University of London, as part of Open Access Week.

Inequality, Paywalled: Update from a Literature Review

I used the Altmetric Explorer as a tool to discover articles about inequality. I cleaned the data to reflect the articles that interested me and then checked them for access and license type.

Visualise This: Getting Attention to Journal Subscription Expenditure

As part of ongoing research in collaboration with my colleague Domenico Fiormonte on academic publishing and 'monopolies of knowledge' we have been looking at the available data on the amount of money universities spend on journal subscriptions.

Recently Launched: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics is a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles co-edited by Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) and myself for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.