Modern Times: A Quick Note on Editorial and Peer Review Work in Accelerated Publish-or-Perish Academic Cultures

At The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, the most frequent query I receive is about the time it takes to get a decision and get published. I share here my position on article processing times in the journal.

Tweeting in an Age of Overwhelming Information Overload and Increased Workloads

How has my thinking changed in relation to Twitter use by academics? I bullet-point some ideas that can be taken if desired as tips or strategies by those academic colleagues who are new to Twitter.

This was January-August 2019 at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

A listing of the articles we have published so far in 2019 in the journal (our 9th volume!) until the 30th of August 2019.

Oligopolies of Knowledge, {Digital Humanities} and Open Access: Looking at Scopus from the Global South… [form the North]

Video and slides from my DH2019 presentation, DH2019 Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 July 2019.

Thoughts on University Module Evaluation

This post discusses the limitations of University Module Evaluation processes and shares a series of recommendations that could improve their design and implementation.

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.

#ELPUB2018: Deadline Extended to 31 January

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for full papers and other presentations is being extended to 31 January 2018. International Conference on Electronic Publishing 2018 (ELPUB) Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure June 22-24, 2018 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada http://elpub.net Full disclosure: I am a member of the programme committee. ELPUB … Continue reading #ELPUB2018: Deadline Extended to 31 January