From the Prezi terms of use: Section 6.2: Section 9: It is extremely ambiguous of Prezi to state that it both “obtains no rights to your content other than as provided for herein” while simultaneously claiming that the “content […] is owned, controlled, or licensed by or to Prezi”. Does an arrangement of items constitute “user content”? What if you make a unique creation (your “user content”) using Prezi's artwork?

Debugging a text-based transcoder meTypeset is, in essence, a transcoder for text.

Diversity of material One of the big challenges that we face in designing an open source scholarly typesetter is ensuring that a diverse range of papers can accurately be parsed by the system. I come from a humanities background and know what articles from those disciplines look like. I do not necessarily know the structure and format of an article from the biomedical sciences.

The Critics of OA and Acknowledging “Predation” Several of the critics of OA, most notably in recent days Jeffrey Beall and John Bohannon – the former of whom believes, with an almost McCarthyite tone, that Open Access is an anti-corporatist movement – have pointed out the practices of so-called “predatory” gold open access publishers. They have a point.

Modularizing the Project Today brings with it some notable changes to my scholarly article XML (NLM/JATS) typesetter (meTypeset). First off, the project is now nicely handling user supplied captions to figures, so long as they are in the format “Figure 1: a figure caption”. The second, more important change, that I've implemented, however, is to begin to modularize the project and to add individual command line hooks for different functions.

When checking out my Google Scholar profile today, I noticed that, if a blog post is cited, it will be counted as an article by Google Scholar. This is interesting for several perhaps conflicting reasons: These items are (often) not digitally preserved and have unstable URLs These items are not peer reviewed (does this matter?

Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology’, in Profils Américains: Thomas Pynchon , ed. by Gilles Chamerois and Bénédicte Fryd (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2014), pp. 81–104 You can buy a copy of the book from the press's website or download a non-paginated/typeset version of the accepted manuscript from this site and (shortly) from the Lincoln repository.

Eve, Martin Paul. 2014. "The Means of (Re-)Production: Expertise, Open Tools, Standards and Communication." Publications 2, no. 1: 38-43. You can download this gold open access article, from the journal, from this site, at Academia.edu and (shortly) from the University of Lincoln repository.

Eve, Martin Paul. 2014. ‘“some Kind of Thing It Aint Us but yet Its in Us”’. SAGE Open 4 (1). doi:10.1177/2158244014521636. http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/4/1/2158244014521636. You can either download the article directly from SAGE, download a copy from this site, or grab the version from the University of Lincoln repository. All the versions should be the same as this is a Gold open access article.

An evaluation of the experience of publishing in the only current humanities mega-journal. The short version: it was good! Your mileage may vary as they have different editors for difference pieces but mine was efficient and tough but fair. The review process was rigorous. My editorial process was coordinated by Lucy Ferris who teaches a course on Cloud Atlas (on which my article focused) at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

As is now fairly common knowledge, HEFCE expects green deposit on all journal articles to be included in REF2020. EDIT: just to clarify: HEFCE has not finalised its position. This is my expected outcome. The deposit must be made upon article acceptance and not later. In the case of embargoes, this should be set in the software. However, I then wondered how we can determine what the embargo period should be.