My 2013 academic year in review

Originally published on eve.gd on 29 December 2013, last updated 6 September 2026.

Read this post on the web (with images, PDF and citation details)

As a round-up of the academic stuff I have achieved over the past year, purely for my own benefit and in anticipation of like-minded posts from my Twitter followers with whom I would like to engage in group collective congratulations, here's a list!

First, and most importantly, I have been doing my job as a Lecturer in Literature at the University of Lincoln for a year. This has been wonderful and I continue to love the people I work with both students and staff.

Secondly, the Open Library of Humanities project has come on leaps and bounds. We have our first funding for technical infrastructure on which I'll be working from January until April. Yes, our initial timescale estimates were out and over-optimistic, but we're really getting somewhere now. I have an article on our business model that I'll be finishing in early January.

Open Library of Humanities

Teaching

Module Coordination, Lectures and Seminars

MA: 21st-Century Literary Theory
American Literature I
Lost in the Funhouse: Experimental American Literature Since the 60s

Lectures/Seminars

Dislocations
Drama Theatre Performance
Intro to Narrative
Theory Wars

Books

My Pynchon book was accepted and will be out next year!

Eve, Martin Paul (2014) Pynchon and philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Collins, Ellen and Milloy, Caren and Stone, Graham and Baker, James and Eve, Martin Paul and Priego, Ernesto (2013) Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors. OAPEN-UK and Jisc Collections.

Eve, Martin Paul
Pynchon and philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno.
Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors.

Articles

Buckland, Amy and Eve, Martin Paul and Steel, Graham and Gardy, Jennifer and Salo, Dorothea (2013) On the mark? Responses to a sting. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2 (1).
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Review of humanities in the twenty-first century: beyond utility and markets. Textual Practice, 27 (7). pp. 1250-1254. ISSN: 0950-236X
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Utopia fading: taxonomies, freedom and dissent in open access publishing. Journal of Victorian Culture, 18 (4). pp. 536-542. ISSN: 1355-5502
Hill, Rebecca and Eve, Martin Paul (2013) ERC backtracks on open-access embargo period. Research Europe (376). pp. 5.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Flawed sting operation singles out open access journals . The Conversation.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Review of James Gourley, terrorism and temporality in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo (2013). Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 2 (1). ISSN: 2047-2870
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Selling Shakespeare's first folio: is this the future of humanities research?. Guardian.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Gatekeepers in a digital wasteland. The Author. ISSN: 0005-0628
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) “You will see the logic of the design of this”: from historiography to taxonomography in the contemporary metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity. Neo-Victorian Studies, 6 (1). pp. 105-125.
Eve, Martin Paul and Edwards, Caroline and Wieselberg, Lukas (2013) Freier Eintritt in die Geisteswissenschaft. Science@ORF.at.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Open access and the humanities. Digital Arts and Humanities at Harvard.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Open Library of Humanities project. UKSG eNews (297).
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) DeLillo, aesthetics, the Cold Iraq War. Alluvium: 21st-Century Writing, 21st-Century Approaches, 2 (3).
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Open access and the humanities: reimagining our future. Guardian. ISSN: 0261-3077
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) The human side of open-access publishing. Research Fortnight. pp. 20.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Gold rush. London Graduate School Thoughtpiece.
Eve, Martin (2013) Q&A: Martin Eve on why we need a public library of the humanities and social sciences. Library Journal, 138 (1). ISSN: 0363-0277

Eve, Martin Paul
On the mark? Responses to a sting.
Review of humanities in the twenty-first century: beyond utility and markets.
Utopia fading: taxonomies, freedom and dissent in open access publishing.
ERC backtracks on open-access embargo period.
Flawed sting operation singles out open access journals .
Review of James Gourley, terrorism and temporality in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo (2013).
Selling Shakespeare's first folio: is this the future of humanities research?.
Gatekeepers in a digital wasteland.
“You will see the logic of the design of this”: from historiography to taxonomography in the contemporary metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity.
Edwards, Caroline
Wieselberg, Lukas
Freier Eintritt in die Geisteswissenschaft.
Open access and the humanities.
Open Library of Humanities project.
DeLillo, aesthetics, the Cold Iraq War.
Open access and the humanities: reimagining our future.
The human side of open-access publishing.
Gold rush.
Q&A: Martin Eve on why we need a public library of the humanities and social sciences.

Book Chapters

Eve, Martin Paul (2013) "It sure as hell looked like war": terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld. In: Thomas Pynchon and the (de)vices of global (post)modernity. Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin. ISBN: 9788377026106
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review. In: Debating Open Access. British Academy, London. ISBN: 9780856726095
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) The botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish. In: Zombies in the academy: living death in higher education. Intellect Press, Bristol. ISBN: 9781841507149

Eve, Martin Paul
"It sure as hell looked like war": terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review.
The botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish.

Conference Papers/Speaking

Eve, Martin Paul (2013) “Vivid tenuousness”: off the page and into the academy in the novels of Jennifer Egan. In: Literature off the Page, 16th November 2013, University of Sussex.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) The humanities, cultural 'data' and the problematic resistance to openness. In: Open [access, data, source]: science & data in the 21st century, 25 October, 2013, University of Edinburgh.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Open access, humanities activism and scholar agency: re-imagining our future. In: Fremtiden er åpen!, 25th September 2013, Bergen, Norway.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Front line of OA in humanities and social sciences. In: The 2nd SPARC Japan Seminar 2013 "Latest Developments in Open Access ― Humanities and Social Sciences ―", 23rd August 2013, National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Digital literatures; digital democracies; digital threats?. In: E-reading between the lines: 21st century literature, digital platforms and literacies, 5 July 2013, Brighton University.
Eve, Martin Paul and Edwards, Caroline (2013) OLH and monographs. In: Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, 1-2 July, 2013, The British Library, London.
Eve, Martin Paul and Edwards, Caroline (2013) Open access and the humanities. In: Open Access and the Humanities, June 2013, Barker Center, Harvard University.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Opening up humanities sources. In: Wikimedia UK Conference, 9 June 2013, Lincoln.
Eve, Martin Paul and Edwards, Caroline (2013) The Open Library of the Humanities: building an open, scalable, massive, sustainable, humanities megajournal. In: THATCamp London: Digital Pedagogies, June 13 2013, The British Library, London.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Open access: what it is, why we need it, how we fund it. In: School of Social and Political Sciences Seminar, 29 May 2013, University of Lincoln.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Libraries and academics. In: Jisc and RLUK Academic Survey Workshop, 20 May 2013, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre.
Eve, Martin Paul and Edwards, Caroline (2013) Open access and the humanities. In: Forms of Innovation, 27 April 2013, Durham University.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) 'Don't just sit there, do something!': On open access activism, the future of scholarly communications and crystal- (not navel-) gazing. In: British Association of American Studies Conference, 18-21 April 2013, Exeter University.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Oral evidence. In: House of Commons BIS Inquiry into Open Access, April 2013, Houses of Parliament.
Eve, Martin Paul and Edwards, Caroline (2013) The future of academic publishing. In: The Graduate School Seminar, April 2013, University of Lincoln.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) The future of peer review. In: Peer pressure: the changing role of peer review: Research Hive Seminar, 14 March 2013, University of Sussex.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) Futurity, books, Marx, labour. In: Beyond the Book? The Future of Academic Publishing , 24-26 March 2013, University of Nottingham.
Eve, Martin Paul (2013) "Too many goddamn echoes": historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega. In: Iraq War Culture, March 2013, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Eve, Martin Paul
“Vivid tenuousness”: off the page and into the academy in the novels of Jennifer Egan.
The humanities, cultural 'data' and the problematic resistance to openness.
Open access, humanities activism and scholar agency: re-imagining our future.
Front line of OA in humanities and social sciences.
Digital literatures; digital democracies; digital threats?.
Edwards, Caroline
OLH and monographs.
Open access and the humanities.
Opening up humanities sources.
The Open Library of the Humanities: building an open, scalable, massive, sustainable, humanities megajournal.
Open access: what it is, why we need it, how we fund it.
Libraries and academics.
Open access and the humanities.
'Don't just sit there, do something!': On open access activism, the future of scholarly communications and crystal- (not navel-) gazing.
Oral evidence.
The future of academic publishing.
The future of peer review.
Futurity, books, Marx, labour.
"Too many goddamn echoes": historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega.

References

This reference list has been generated, in many cases, through an automated process and may therefore contain errors or incomplete metadata. It is provided purely as assistance for finding the items mentioned within this post.

1. Before the law: open access and peer review <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10019>

2. DeLillo aesthetics Cold Iraq War article <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9500>

3. Digital literatures democracies and threats chapter <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10663>

4. ERC backtracks on open-access embargo period <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12602>

5. Eve article on Sarah Waters's Affinity <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11753>

6. Eve on Pynchon DeLillo terrorism and Cold War <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/7159>

7. Eve, Pynchon and Philosophy (Palgrave 2014) <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12425>

8. Flawed sting operation singles out OA journals <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12043>

9. Freier Eintritt in die Geisteswissenschaft article <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11708>

10. Front line of OA in humanities and social sciences <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11726>

11. Future of academic publishing seminar talk <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9825>

12. Futurity books Marx labour conference paper <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9824>

13. Gatekeepers in a digital wasteland article <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11595>

14. Gold rush London Graduate School thoughtpiece <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9233>

15. Guide to Creative Commons for monograph authors <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10589>

16. Human side of open-access publishing article <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9234>

17. Humanities cultural data and resistance to openness <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11807>

18. Libraries and academics Jisc RLUK workshop <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9828>

19. OLH and monographs conference presentation <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10591>

20. OLH building open scalable humanities megajournal <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9793>

21. On open access activism and scholarly communications <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9826>

22. On the mark? Responses to a sting <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12662>

23. Open access and humanities reimagining Guardian piece <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9235>

24. Open access and the humanities Durham conference <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9827>

25. Open access and the humanities Harvard conference <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10588>

26. Open access and the humanities Harvard talk <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10590>

27. Open access humanities activism and scholar agency <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11962>

28. Open access: what it is why we need it <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9829>

29. Open Library of Humanities project site <https://www.openlibhums.org>

30. Open Library of Humanities project UKSG piece <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9682>

31. Opening up humanities sources Wikimedia talk <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9830>

32. Oral evidence to House of Commons OA inquiry <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10592>

33. Q&A Martin Eve on public library of humanities <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11565>

34. Review of Gourley on Pynchon and DeLillo terrorism <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11983>

35. Review of Humanities in the Twenty-First Century <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12761>

36. Selling Shakespeare's first folio Guardian piece <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/11808>

37. The botnet: hegemony and zombies who publish <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/7160>

38. The future of peer review seminar <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9823>

39. Too many goddamn echoes DeLillo Point Omega paper <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9822>

40. Utopia fading: open access taxonomies article <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12790>

41. Vivid tenuousness: Jennifer Egan novels chapter <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12402>