My 2019 in review

Originally published on eve.gd on 14 December 2019, last updated 6 September 2026.

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This was, in many ways, a pretty bad year for me. My health has, to be frank, been appalling once more. It has necessitated treatment with cyclophosphamide in hospital, a chemotherapy agent that makes you feel very unwell and leaves your immune system vulnerable to every vulturous bug under the sun. As a result of the damage to my immune system, I also need lifelong immunoglobulin therapy to ensure that I am not killed by a common cold turning into pneumonia. This is all not great. I was not best pleased by the election result in the UK, either.

In other ways, it has been a very good year for me. I won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize. We also won a Coko Foundation Open Publishing Award at OLH. We were awarded a £3m grant from Research England for the COPIM project. The Arcadia Foundation gave an additional grant towards this same project of £800,000. My book, Close Reading with Computers was published. The final manuscript of our edited volume went to The MIT Press and was accepted. Two other books went under contract. I completed the Metrics for Open Monographs project for Jisc.

COPIM project

I also achieved a significant musical milestone, signing to Tici Taci records; my favourite music label of all time.

This wasn’t a bad year.

Books

Eve, Martin Paul, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
Eve, Martin Paul, Cameron Neylon, Daniel O’Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and others, Reading Peer Review (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Eve, Martin Paul, Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (Stanford University Press: 2019)

Edited Volumes

Eve, Martin Paul, and Jonathan Gray, eds., Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020)

Journal Articles

Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literature: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City’, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 2020
McGovern, Melanie, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve’, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 9.1 (2019), 6.1-6.28
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack’, Critique: Studies In Contemporary Fiction, 60.3 (2019), 330–41

Book Chapters

Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Violins in the Subway: Scarcity Correlations, Evaluative Cultures, and Disciplinary Authority in the Digital Humanities’, in Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research, ed. by Jennifer Edmonds (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Philosophy’, in Thomas Pynchon in Context, ed. by Inger H. Dalsgaard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Pynchon and the New Materialism’, in The New Pynchon Studies, ed. by Joanna Freer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Late Modernism, Postmodernism, and After’, in The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, ed. by Peter Boxall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Publishing and Information’, in The Oxford Handbook of Publishing Studies, ed. by Angus Phillips and Michael Bhaskar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘“What Was Knowledge for, I Would Ask Myself”: Science, Technology, and Pharmakon in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas’, in David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed. by Wendy Knepper and Courtney Hopf (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Book Reviews

Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford; Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels by Lee Clark Mitchell; and Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing by Nicholas Thoburn’, American Literature, 91.3 (2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Anthony Uhlmann’s Saint Antony in His Desert’, Electronic Book Review, 2019
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Enumerations: Data and Literary Study by Andrew Piper’, Modern Philology, 2019

Conference Papers/Talks

Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Future of Open Research and Its Impact on Humanities and Social Science’ (presented at the Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Plan S, Alternative Business Models, and Open Access Monographs’ (presented at the Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle, London, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Digital Humanities, Open Publishing, and Literary Studies’ (presented at the Vice-Chancellor’s Seminar, University of London, London, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Monographs Metrics Experiment’ (presented at the Metrics for Monographs Meeting, Jisc Collections, London, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Economics and Political-Economics of Open-Access Monograph Publishing’ (presented at the Open Access Monographs: From Policy to Reality, University of Cambridge, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘OA and Learned Societies’ (presented at the NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and the Slow Onset Storm for the Humanities’ (presented at the Fordham/Birkbeck Symposium on Digital Scholarship, Fordham University, London, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Sacred Unreadable Artefact: Digital Preservation, Computational Abundance, and Scarce Access’ (presented at the Digital Library Futures: Symposium on Non-Print Legal Deposit, University of Cambridge, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Plan S: Origins, Developments, Speed’ (presented at the UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition, Telford, England, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Fact and Fiction, Proximity and Profundity, Distance and Depth’ (presented at the The Mediated Text, Loughborough University London, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, John Willinsky, and Oya Rieger, ‘Consortial Funding Models: What Are They and How Do They Work?’ (presented at the OASPA Webinar, Online, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Starting an Open Access Journal’ (presented at the Publishing Workshop, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 2019)
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and Monographs’ (presented at the Technē Congress, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 2019)

Other Articles

Eve, Martin Paul, ‘If We Choose to Align Open Access to Research with Geo-Political Borders We Negate the Moral Value of Open Access’, LSE Impact Blog, 2019
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Metrics for Monographs Experiment: Final Report’, Jisc Open Metrics Lab, 2019
Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Plan S: One Year On’, Research Europe, 2019, 8–9
Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Worried Societies Air Their Concerns as They Search for Plan S Solutions’, Research Europe, 2019, 7
McKenzie, Lindsay, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Linking Liability: Sci-Hub, a Repository for Pirated Research Papers, Is Widely Acknowledged to Be Illegal. But Is Sharing a Link to the Site Illegal, Too?’, Inside Higher Ed, 2019
Mayo, Nick, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Journal’s Plan to Review Preprints Aims to Kill “Desk Rejects”’, Times Higher Education, 2019
Eve, Martin Paul, and Lizzie Sayer, ‘Distributed Models for Open Access Publishing: Q&A with Martin Eve’, International Science Council, 2019
Eve, Martin Paul, Andy Byers, Mauro Sanchez, and Paula Clemente Vega, ‘Janeway. An Open Insights Interview with Martin Paul Eve, Andy Byers and Mauro Sanchez’, Open Insights, 2019
McKenzie, Lindsay, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Making Monographs Open’, Inside Higher Education, 2019
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘In or out, Green or Gold? Plan S Raises Questions for the REF’, Research Fortnight, 2019

Music

Course Correction - Mine/Fly [2019]
Martin Eve - The Learning Experience (Tici Taci) [2019]
Javier Busto - Dopamine (remix) (Nuff Music) [2019]
The Long Champs - Opsimath & Eremite EP (remix) (Tici Taci) [2019]

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. ‘Distributed models for open access publishing: Q&A with Martin Eve’, International Science Council, 12 June 2019 <https://council.science/current/blog/distributed-models-for-open-access-publishing-qa-with-martin-eve>

2. Eve, Martin Paul, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, 10 February 2022 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26645>

3. Eve, Martin Paul, Cameron Neylon, Daniel O'Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and Shahina Parvin, Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia, 3 January 2021 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27709>

4. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan's Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City’, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 26 January 2020 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28029>

5. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’sI’m Jack’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Informa UK Limited, 6 February 2019 <https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2019.1568960>

6. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Publishing and information’, 23 April 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19295>

7. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘'What was knowledge for, I would ask myself': Science, Technology, and Pharmakon in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas’, 3 April 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/24067>

8. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford; Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels by Lee Clark Mitchell; and Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing by Nicholas Thoburn’, American Literature, 30 August 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26720>

9. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Taxonomographic Metafiction: A review of Anthony Uhlmann's Saint Antony in His Desert’, electronic book review, 7 April 2019 <http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/taxonomographic-metafiction-a-review-of-anthony-uhlmanns-saint-antony-in-his-desert/>

10. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Enumerations: Data and Literary Study by Andrew Piper’, August 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25293>

11. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Future of Open Research and its Impact on Humanities and Social Science’, 5 December 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30097>

12. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Plan S, Alternative Business Models, and Open Access Monographs’, 20 November 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29853>

13. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Digital Humanities, Open Publishing, and Literary Studies’, 13 November 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29852>

14. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Monographs Metrics Experiment’, 14 October 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29432>

15. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Economics and Political-Economics of Open-Access Monograph Publishing’, 2 October 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29031>

16. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘OA and Learned Societies’, 21 June 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27894>

17. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and the Slow Onset Storm for the Humanities’, 3 June 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27716>

18. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Sacred Unreadable Artefact: Digital Preservation, Computational Abundance, and Scarce Access’, 21 May 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27525>

19. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Plan S: Origins, Developments, Speed’, 10 April 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27100>

20. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Fact and Fiction, Proximity and Profundity, Distance and Depth’, 5 April 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27013>

21. Eve, Martin Paul, John Willinsky, and Oya Rieger, ‘Consortial Funding Models: What are they and how do they work?’, 4 April 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27029>

22. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Starting an Open Access Journal’, 29 January 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25999>

23. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Open Access and Monographs’, 10 January 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25768>

24. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘If we choose to align open access to research with geo-political borders we negate the moral value of open access’, LSE Impact Blog, 11 November 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29894>

25. Eve, Martin Paul, Open Metrics for Monographs Experiment: Final Report, Jisc, 2019 <http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7427/>

26. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘In or out, green or gold? Plan S raises questions for the REF’, Research Fortnight, 13 February 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26117>

27. Eve and Gray, Reassembling Scholarly Communications (MIT 2020) <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/21102>

28. Eve et al., Janeway Open Insights interview, OLH 2019 <https://www.openlibhums.org/news/338/>

29. Javier Busto, Dopamine remix, Nuff Music 2019 <https://www.junodownload.com/products/javier-busto-dopamine/4114214-02/>

30. Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Plan S: One Year On’, Research Europe, 26 September 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29160>

31. Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Worried societies air their concerns as they search for Plan S solutions’, Research Europe, 26 September 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29159>

32. Martin Eve, The Learning Experience, Tici Taci 2019 <https://www.junodownload.com/products/martin-eve-the-learning-experience/4112383-02/>

33. Mayo, Nick, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Journal's plan to review preprints aims to kill 'desk rejects'’, Times Higher Education, 6 August 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28459>

34. McGovern, Melanie, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve’, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, Open Library of the Humanities, 2019 <https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.158>

35. McKenzie, Lindsay, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Linking Liability: Sci-Hub, a repository for pirated research papers, is widely acknowledged to be illegal. But is sharing a link to the site illegal, too?’, Inside Higher Ed, 16 August 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28625>

36. McKenzie, Lindsay, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Making Monographs Open’, Inside Higher Education, 3 May 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27408>

37. ‘Mine/Fly’, Course Correction, 2019 <https://coursecorrection.bandcamp.com/album/mine-fly>

38. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Philosophy’, 20 June 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20164>

39. Paul, Eve, Martin, ‘Pynchon and the New Materialism’, 1 May 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20163>

40. Paul., Eve, Martin, Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, 1 January 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20716>

41. Paul., Eve, Martin, ‘Violins in the Subway: Scarcity Correlations, Evaluative Cultures, and Disciplinary Authority in the Digital Humanities’, 31 January 2020 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20165>

42. Paul., Eve, Martin, ‘Late Modernism, Postmodernism, and After’, 1 August 2019 <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20338>

43. The Long Champs, Opsimath and Eremite EP remix, Tici Taci 2019 <https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-long-champs-opsimath-eremite/4080306-02/>

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http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26645
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27709
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28029
https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2019.1568960
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19295
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/24067
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26720
http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/taxonomographic-metafiction-a-review-of-anthony-uhlmanns-saint-antony-in-his-desert/
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25293
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30097
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29853
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29852
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29432
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29031
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27894
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27716
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27525
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27100
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27013
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27029
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25999
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25768
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29894
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7427/
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26117
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/21102
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/338/
https://www.junodownload.com/products/javier-busto-dopamine/4114214-02/
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29160
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http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28625
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27408
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http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20164
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20163
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http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20165
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20338
https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-long-champs-opsimath-eremite/4080306-02/