My 2015 academic year in review

Originally published on eve.gd on 17 December 2015, last updated 6 September 2026.

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This year was a good year for me in terms of academia. I started my job as a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, I launched the Open Library of Humanities with a substantial Mellon grant, and I finished writing two books that I hope will be published next year (Password and The Anxiety of Academia). I also began supervising some really great Ph.D. students, including Stuart Lawson on the politics of open access. Here’s a breakdown of what came out this year. Obviously, given publishing timescales, this is less a reflection on what I did (apart from conferences) and more the fact that it just came out. I still derive some satisfaction from seeing it written down, though!

Merry Christmas, all!

Journal articles

Eve, Martin Paul, ““Structural Dissatisfaction”: academics on safari in the novels of Jennifer Egan”, Open Library of Humanities 1(1), 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Keep writing: the critique of the university in Roberto Bolaño's 2666”, Textual Practice, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “"Too many goddamn echoes": historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega”, Journal of American Studies 49(3), 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open-Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines”, Online Information Review, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Co-operating for gold open access without APCs”, Insights: the UKSG journal 28(1), 2015

“Structural Dissatisfaction”: academics on safari in the novels of Jennifer Egan
Keep writing: the critique of the university in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
"Too many goddamn echoes": historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega
Open-Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines
Co-operating for gold open access without APCs

Book Chapters

Eve, Martin Paul, “"Freedom To" vs. "Freedom From"”, in The Cost of Freedom: A Collective Inquiry (Book Sprints: 2015)
Eve, Martin Paul, “New rhetorics: disciplinarity and the movement from historiography to taxonomography”, in Metahistorical Narratives and Scientific Metafictions, ed. by di Episcopo, G. (Edizioni Cronopio: 2015)

"Freedom To" vs. "Freedom From"
New rhetorics: disciplinarity and the movement from historiography to taxonomography

Reviews

Eve, Martin Paul, “Review of Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War”, Foucault Studies 20, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Review of Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture by Joanna Freer”, Journal of American Studies 49(4), 2015

Review of Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War
Review of Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture by Joanna Freer

Other/Media Articles

Matthews, David, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Library of Humanities aims to ‘flip’ journals to open access”, Times Higher Education, 2015
Nicholson, Craig, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Power to the people”, Research Europe, 2015
Wexler, Ellen, and Eve, Martin Paul, “As Academia.edu Grows, Some Scholars Voice Concerns”, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “BIS, metrics and non-selective QR allocation”, Wonkhe, 2015
Wexler, Ellen, and Eve, Martin Paul, “What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs”, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, and Edwards, Caroline, “Opening the Open Library of Humanities”, Open Library of Humanities 1(1), 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “TEF, REF, QR, deregulation: thoughts on Jo Johnson’s HE talk”, Times Higher Education Blog, 2015
Smith, Adam, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Huge cash injection for open-access humanities project”, Research Fortnight, 2015
Smith, Adam, and Eve, Martin Paul, “Humanities mega journal seeks UK backing”, Research Fortnight, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Willinsky, J., Coble, Z., and Ho, A., “Open access in humanities and social sciences: visions for the future of publishing”, College and Research Libraries News 76(2), 2015

Open Library of Humanities aims to ‘flip’ journals to open access
Power to the people
As Academia.edu Grows, Some Scholars Voice Concerns
BIS, metrics and non-selective QR allocation
What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs
Opening the Open Library of Humanities
TEF, REF, QR, deregulation: thoughts on Jo Johnson’s HE talk
Huge cash injection for open-access humanities project
Humanities mega journal seeks UK backing
Open access in humanities and social sciences: visions for the future of publishing

Conference Papers/Events

Eve, Martin Paul, “Prestige and Non-APC OA Journals”, FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot APC-Equivalent Fundign Scheme Workshop, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, NL, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, and Edwards, Caroline, “Only Revolutions: Transitioning to a Digital Publication Environment for Humanities Scholarship”, Digital Humanities Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “The Open Library of the Humanities”, University English Ordinary General Meeting: English in New Landscapes, Senate House, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Academic Structures of Exclusion”, Reading the World: Challenging Canon Formations, Senate House, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Who will disrupt the disruptors?”, SCONUL Winter Meeting, The Wellcome Collection, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and the Humanities”, Humanities Seminar, Aberystwyth University, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Flipping humanities journals to open access with the OLH”, Fair Open Acces Tijdschriften in de Geesteswetenschappen, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open access & the humanities”, CrossRef Annual Meeting, Boston, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “CrossRef deposit: a scholar-publisher experience”, CrossRef Annual Meeting, Boston, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Flipping humanities journals to open access with the OLH”, OpenCon 2015, Brussels, Belgium, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Berry, David, and Kempshall, Chris, “Alternatives to the monograph: new ways of publishing for doctoral researchers”, Academic Book Week, University of Sussex, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Basset, Caroline, and Shoman, Kiren, “What is the future for the academic book?”, Academic Book Week, University of Sussex, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Churchwell, Sarah, Champion, Justin, Gregg, Stephen, Stonebridge, Lyndsey, and Wilcox, Pip, “Roundtable on the Academic Book of the Future”, Opening the book: reading and the evolving technology(ies) of the book, Institute for Historical Research, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “The humanities in the digital age: access, equality and education”, Digital Humanities and Open Access, Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki, Finland, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “The prestige economy of academia”, Finnish Terminological Bank Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “The Open Library of Humanities”, UCL Open Access Conference 2015: ‘Open Access Publishing Options’, University College London, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open access in the humanities: why we need it and how to do it”, Open Access in the Humanities, Groningen University, Groningen, Holland, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Humanities research, publics and access”, Open Access Week, Brunel University, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Jones, Alison, Kember, Sarah, Mandler, Peter, and Zylinska, Joanna, “Panel discussion”, Open access monographs and publishing models: collaborative ways forward, Golsmiths, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Getting your research published and read: transformations in the publication landscape”, Open Access Week, Kansas University, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, and Edwards, Caroline, “Humanities takes over”, OpenCon Webcast, Online, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?”, Action Writing: The Politics of US Literature, 1960-Present, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Publishing and technology”, Academic Publishing in the Digital Age, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Software, markup languages, preservation”, Academic Publishing in the Digital Age, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open access and the humanities”, LIBER 2015, Senate House, London, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Christensen, Neil, and Hooper, Clare, “Open access for HSS journals”, American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Nicholson, Joshua, Teytelman, Lenny, and Konkiel, Stacy, “When publishers aren’t getting it done”, American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel: Late-Pynchon's Academics”, International Pynchon Week, Athens, Greece, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Historical Fictions”, Arts Week 2015, Waterstones Book Shop, Gower Street, London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access”, BAFTSS Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Co-operating for gold open access without APCs”, UKSG 38th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “The Open Library of Humanities”, ACRL/NEC Scholarly Communication Group Spring Program, Open Humanities and Digital Scholarship: Access, Innovation, and Support, Northeastern University, Boston, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and the Open Library of the Humanities”, Open Access and the Humanities, National Humanities Center, Durham, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and the humanities”, Open Access and the Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access and the humanities”, Open Access and the Humanities, Duke University, Durham, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access in the humanities: benefits, challenges and economics”, Open Access in the Humanities: Benefits, Challenges and Economics with Martin Paul Eve, Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Open Access, libraries and cooperation”, Library Publishing Forum, Portland State University, Oregon, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Preferential consideration: David Foster Wallace, Melville and behaviourism”, Supposedly Fun Things: A Colloquium on the Writing of David Foster Wallace, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, Fitzpatrick, K., Gold, M.K., Marden, C., and Norberg, L., “Innovation in digital publishing in the humanities”, American Historical Association, New York, U.S., 2015
Eve, Martin Paul, “Metrics, Open Access and publishing”, Metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the Arts and Humanities, University of Warwick, UK, 2015

Prestige and Non-APC OA Journals
Only Revolutions: Transitioning to a Digital Publication Environment for Humanities Scholarship
The Open Library of the Humanities
Academic Structures of Exclusion
Who will disrupt the disruptors?
Open Access and the Humanities
Flipping humanities journals to open access with the OLH
Open access & the humanities
CrossRef deposit: a scholar-publisher experience
Flipping humanities journals to open access with the OLH
Alternatives to the monograph: new ways of publishing for doctoral researchers
What is the future for the academic book?
Roundtable on the Academic Book of the Future
The humanities in the digital age: access, equality and education
The prestige economy of academia
The Open Library of Humanities
Open access in the humanities: why we need it and how to do it
Humanities research, publics and access
Panel discussion
Getting your research published and read: transformations in the publication landscape
Humanities takes over
'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
Publishing and technology
Software, markup languages, preservation
Open access and the humanities
Open access for HSS journals
When publishers aren’t getting it done
Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel: Late-Pynchon's Academics
Historical Fictions
Open Access
Co-operating for gold open access without APCs
The Open Library of Humanities
Open Access and the Open Library of the Humanities
Open Access and the humanities
Open Access and the humanities
Open Access in the humanities: benefits, challenges and economics
Open Access, libraries and cooperation
Preferential consideration: David Foster Wallace, Melville and behaviourism
Innovation in digital publishing in the humanities
Metrics, Open Access and publishing

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. Adam, Smith,, and Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Huge cash injection for open-access humanities project’, Research Fortnight, 6 July 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13723>

2. Adam, Smith,, and Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Humanities mega journal seeks UK backing’, Research Fortnight, 15 April 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13724>

3. Craig, Nicholson,, and Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Power to the people’, Research Europe, 3 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13701>

4. David, Matthews,, and Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Library of Humanities aims to 'flip' journals to open access’, Times Higher Education, 3 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13688>

5. Ellen, Wexler,, and Eve, Martin Paul, ‘As Academia.edu Grows, Some Scholars Voice Concerns’, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13689>

6. Ellen, Wexler,, and Eve, Martin Paul, ‘What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs’, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13663>

7. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘“Structural Dissatisfaction”: academics on safari in the novels of Jennifer Egan’, Open Library of Humanities, 19 October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12502>

8. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Keep writing: the critique of the university in Roberto Bolaño's 2666’, Textual Practice, October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12132>

9. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘"Too many goddamn echoes": historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega’, Journal of American Studies, August 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12133>

10. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open-Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines’, Online Information Review, 1 August 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12272>

11. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Co-operating for gold open access without APCs’, Insights: the UKSG journal, March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12142>

12. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘New rhetorics: disciplinarity and the movement from historiography to taxonomography’, September 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12177>

13. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture by Joanna Freer’, Journal of American Studies, November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13298>

14. Eve, Martin Paul, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Opening the Open Library of Humanities’, Open Library of Humanities, 28 September 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13030>

15. Eve, Martin Paul, J. Willinsky, Z. Coble, and A. Ho, ‘Open access in humanities and social sciences: visions for the future of publishing’, College and Research Libraries, February 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12144>

16. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access’, BAFTSS Annual Conference, 17 April 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12134>

17. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Co-operating for gold open access without APCs’, UKSG 38th Annual Conference and Exhibition, April 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12135>

18. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Open Library of Humanities’, ACRL/NEC Scholarly Communication Group Spring Program, 19 March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12141>

19. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and the Open Library of the Humanities’, Open Access and the Humanities, March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12137>

20. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and the humanities’, Open Access and the Humanities, March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12138>

21. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and the humanities’, Open Access and the Humanities, March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12139>

22. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access in the humanities: benefits, challenges and economics’, Open Access in the Humanities, March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12140>

23. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access, libraries and cooperation’, Library Publishing Forum, March 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12136>

24. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Preferential consideration: David Foster Wallace, Melville and behaviourism’, 7 February 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12143>

25. Eve, Martin Paul, K. Fitzpatrick, M.K. Gold, C. Marden, and L. Norberg, ‘Innovation in digital publishing in the humanities’, American Historical Association, January 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12146>

26. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Metrics, Open Access and publishing’, January 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12145>

27. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘"Freedom To" vs. "Freedom From"’, 9 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13385>

28. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Review of Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy's Perpetual War by Warren Montag’, 25 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13846>

29. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘BIS, metrics and non-selective QR allocation’, Wonkhe, 18 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13563>

30. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘TEF, REF, QR, deregulation: thoughts on Jo Johnson's HE talk’, Times Higher Education Blog, 9 September 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13564>

31. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Prestige and Non-APC OA Journals’, 11 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13752>

32. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Only Revolutions: Transitioning to a Digital Publication Environment for Humanities Scholarship’, 8 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13623>

33. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘The Open Library of the Humanities’, 5 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13622>

34. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Academic Structures of Exclusion’, 3 December 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13621>

35. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Who will disrupt the disruptors?’, 27 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13620>

36. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Open Access and the Humanities’, 25 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13619>

37. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Flipping humanities journals to open access with the OLH’, 23 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13618>

38. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Open access & the humanities’, 18 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13555>

39. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘CrossRef deposit: a scholar-publisher experience’, 17 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13554>

40. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Flipping humanities journals to open access with the OLH’, 15 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13553>

41. Paul, Eve, Martin, Berry, David, and Kempshall, Chris, ‘Alternatives to the monograph: new ways of publishing for doctoral researchers’, 11 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13387>

42. Paul, Eve, Martin, Basset, Caroline, and Shoman, Kiren, ‘What is the future for the academic book?’, 11 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13386>

43. Paul, Eve, Martin, Churchwell, Sarah, Champion, Justin, Gregg, Stephen, Stonebridge, Lyndsey, and Wilcox, Pip, ‘Roundtable on the Academic Book of the Future’, 10 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13388>

44. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘The humanities in the digital age: access, equality and education’, 6 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13557>

45. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘The prestige economy of academia’, 5 November 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13556>

46. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘The Open Library of Humanities’, 21 October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13561>

47. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Open access in the humanities: why we need it and how to do it’, 21 October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13558>

48. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Humanities research, publics and access’, 20 October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13560>

49. Paul, Eve, Martin, Jones, Alison, Kember, Sarah, Mandler, Peter, and Zylinska, Joanna, ‘Panel discussion’, 19 October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13559>

50. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Getting your research published and read: transformations in the publication landscape’, 16 October 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13562>

51. Paul, Eve, Martin, and Edwards, Caroline, ‘Humanities takes over’, 15 September 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13565>

52. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘'He doesn't talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?’, 3 July 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13378>

53. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Publishing and technology’, 1 July 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13566>

54. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Software, markup languages, preservation’, 1 July 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13567>

55. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Open access and the humanities’, 25 June 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13568>

56. Paul, Eve, Martin, Christensen, Neil, and Hooper, Clare, ‘Open access for HSS journals’, 20 June 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13570>

57. Paul, Eve, Martin, Nicholson, Joshua, Teytelman, Lenny, and Konkiel, Stacy, ‘When publishers aren't getting it done’, 19 June 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13569>

58. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel: Late-Pynchon's Academics’, 10 June 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13377>

59. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Historical Fictions’, 21 May 2015 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13659>