Some thoughts to myself now voiced out loud. Meta-ethical moral relativism holds that there is no objective wrong or right between parties with different ethical views. Normative moral relativism holds that one should therefore tolerate each of these views. For many years, the political right railed against both of these forms of moral relativism.
Consortial OA funding models such as Knowledge Unlatched, the Open Library of Humanities, and others are non-classical economic setups. They are susceptible to free riders. These models have worked thus far because: * Academic libraries are not necessarily classical economic actors; * They spread the cost well and are often cheaper than options under the classical model;
Cheap it is not, but the Folio Society Edition of Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker is a beautiful item to behold. The edition itself is limited to a run of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator, Quentin Blake, and ours is #15. The illustrations themselves are wonderful.
There are 100 people in a room. They have $10 each. The academic speaker will give them a talk but the venue wants $50 to cover its costs (and any profit/surplus). There are 40 such talks per year. There is final indefinitely large group of people (let us call them "the general public") who might want to hear the talk but who can't afford to pay anything. Subscription logic: each person pays $0.50 and gets access to the talk.
One of the things we have to contend with at the Open Library of Humanities is the fact that libraries will evaluate our performance and decide whether or not to renew their subscriptions/memberships. This makes sense and is only to be expected. A few thoughts struck me about this, though. One of the core questions that some librarians have been asking is: how many articles from our researchers are appearing in these journals?
One of the most pleasing, but also most difficult, parts of running the [Open Library of Humanities](https://www.openlibhums.org) is bringing new journals onto the platform. This is pleasing because these are often subscription publications or society journals that will benefit from open access with no author fees. It's also really great when we can develop university press partnerships to expand our model.
The saga continues from [where I left off](https://www.martineve.com/2017/01/16/thinking-more-about-eu-law-and-uk-copyright-exemptions/). Since then, I emailed a publisher to request a corpus of a specific author's work in a format that would allow computational techniques (i.e. not Amazon Kindle, which has DRM protection that it is illegal to break). Sadly, the publisher refused on the grounds of complexity, so I am no closer to being able to
It is a common step in the ongoing reform of research practices to criticize the set of proxy measures that we use to evaluate research.
I run a small academic publisher, the [Open Library of Humanities](https://www.openlibhums.org). Well, I say small but, at 18 journals, we are bigger than quite a few small university presses. But, by most accounts, we are small. I want to write here about how much this costs, so that those starting new presses can think about it. The figures here are ballpark, not precise.
One of the things that we have to do in [meTypeset](https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/meTypeset) is to capture parenthetical citations. These range in styles, but the following are good examples: * Some text (Martin Eve, p. 45) * Eve notes (345). * Eve notes (p. 345) * A great thing (Alex, P. 45) * Here is one of them: (Silva, Rodrigues, Oliveira, &
There is an article, published in a "top" journal in my field, that makes a series of claims with which I substantially disagree. In fact, I think the piece, which will probably go on to be widely cited and used, is flawed.