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In [_Open Access and the Humanities_](http://meve.io/oahums), I wrote: >the case study I have opted to focus upon for this model is Open Book Publishers (OBP), a new small press based in Cambridge, UK and headed by Alessandra Tosi, a fellow of Clare Hall, and run by Rupert Gatti, a fellow of Trinity College.

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A [post today at the Scholarly Kitchen](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/08/24/the-costs-of-flipping-our-dollars-to-gold/) has spurred me to write something that I've been pondering for a while. Namely: how helpful is this idea of "[paying it forward](http://icis.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/UC-Pay-It-Forward-Final-Report.rev_.7.18.16.pdf)" as a way of funding scholarly communications?

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Somebody, and I can't remember who (so treat this as a straw argument if you want), argued with me a while back that there was a problem with open access because it was driven by technological possibility. That I wanted people to be able to read things without paying because technology made it possible was apparently a bad thing because, ya know, technology. Now, I'm not actually averse to thinking critically about technology.

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Today, my peer-reviewed journal article on the publishing history of the two substantially different versions of David Mitchell's _Cloud Atlas_ was published. You can read the full article in all its open access glory at the Open Library of Humanities . There's also [a press release about the work](http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-research-uncovers-publishing-problems-in-popular-contemporary-fiction) on Birkbeck's main site.

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One of the aspects of the Stern review that has attracted the most attention from my Twitter stream is the non-portability of research outputs. What this means is that institutions cannot poach staff from elsewhere and use their outputs to return to REF. Now, there's a problem with Stern at the moment in that he doesn't say what will happen with ECR/Ph.D. student outputs when they move to their first post with a research element.

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My short book in the Object Lessons series, Password , is released today, published by Bloomsbury. It's available to buy in all the usual places. All author royalties will be donated to Arthritis Research UK. [![Password](/images/password.png)](http://amzn.to/2abBhmD) When I first saw the Object Lessons series, I felt I wanted to write something for it. It wasn't, originally, going to be _Password_, though.

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Lord Stern's review of the Research Excellence Framework is out today in the UK. Not as exciting as the fact that my book is also out today, I know, but still a marginally important publication, I suppose. The biggest recommended change in the report is that institutional submissions be decoupled from researchers. In other words, institutions must submit _all_ research-active staff BUT not every researcher has to submit four outputs.

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As part of the translation platform we're building, I needed to implement the following workflow: * If the DOM has been modified previously, then restore the DOM and run the substitution function. * If the DOM hasn't been modified, then just run the substitution function. The problem was that whenever I ran $("body").html(this.original_document); in the first of these cases, the javascript would stop executing.