One of the hardest parts of typesetting articles for scholarly publication in the JATS standard, especially when using homemade tools, is the bibliography. JATS (and its NLM predecessors) expects references to be broken down into their constituent components where possible in order to be semantically rich. For example: {% highlight xml %} Royall Tyler The Contrast The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol.

The views below represent my own personal addendum to other responses to the HEFCE metrics consultation that I have valued and endorsed. They are not necessarily the views of my institution.

-- Diane Elam, 'Foreword' in Readings, Bill. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. vii. My emphasis. -- Readings, Bill. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. x. My emphasis. -- Jackie Hall, Obituary What better place than here , what better time than now?

I was thinking last week about the process of starting any new project -- and it's fairly clear cut. When I am conducting an initial literature review, I head off to the British Library and order ten or so books/articles on the subject that I want to investigate (provided there are 10 articles/books). I then go through the bibliographies and check which entries appear in all ten.

Note to self/anybody else it might help: if you have disks with previous dmraid headers (potentially corrupt etc.), you need to remove the dmraid package before grub can find a Windows partition that resides on those disks. This is because the dmraid package is attempting to map the drives to /dev/mapper locations. update-grub/os-prober not detecting Windows 7 was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on June 02, 2014.

Sponsored by the Centre for Modernist Studies, the Centre for Visual Fields, the Centre for Research into Childhood and Youth, University of Sussex, and the Interdisciplinary Network for the study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change Here by the Sea and Sand: A Symposium on Quadrophenia was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on May 31, 2014.

There's a meme going around at the moment (or at least internet post, if not a meme), which I think is pretty insidious. It reads as follows: Apart from the American-centrism ("Medicare tax") of this (followed by the "share around the UK" disjunct), it's also utter rubbish.

OK, so, as I am sure you know, this coming Thursday is Pynchon in Public Day, when we celebrate the birthday of one of America's greatest (and most invisible) living novelists by reading his works in public and posting photos.

The other day, I was sent a text message by a senior academic friend who has a healthily sceptical view of the open access work that I do. The question was: "re. Monographs, authors should be paid for their work, the publishing business model now allows for that as would online pay walls (not much but depends on book and who you are). How do you deal with that in mandatory OA, would we all be working for publishers for free?" My responses and

This is the tenth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Duke University Press, Anvil Academic, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

A twitter conversation that I had with Michelle Brook this morning. [View the story "Openness for society or for profit?" on Storify] Openness for society or for profit? was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on April 19, 2014.