Some open-access advocates argue that transparency and accountability are key for open access (meaning: the removal of price and permission barriers to reading academic research). Indeed, this is one of the many points when the discourses of neoliberal* governmentality intersect with open academic publication.

I'm very pleased to be able to announce some forthcoming titles in the Bloomsbury _New Horizons in Contemporary Writing_ series that I edit! Dates are, of course, subject to change but we have a really exciting line up of titles coming soon!

A few years ago I wrote an article: Eve, Martin Paul, [‘Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of “Metamodernism”: Post-Millennial Post-Postmodernism?’](https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/12246/), C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings , 1 (2012), 7–25. It was the first thing I wrote outside of my Ph.D. and I am not sure that the literary analysis is that good. I wouldn't read the second half of it if I were you.

In the past few days I have spoken with many colleagues with differing views on the offer from UUK. Like many other colleagues, I have been on strike to halt the conversion of the defined benefit pension of the Universities Superannuation Scheme to a market-performance-based defined contribution system. It has been heartening to see so many colleagues involved in industrial action and to see that labour has power in such disputes.

In the past few days, well [over a year since HEFCE signalled](http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/HEFCE,2014/Content/Pubs/2016/201636/HEFCE2016_36.pdf) its "inten[tion] to move towards an open-access requirement for monographs in the exercise that follows the next REF (expected in the mid-2020s)", humanities academics have been getting themselves stirred up on the basis of a document issued by the [Royal Historical

I've just been reading the [EC’s tender document](https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-document.html?docId=37014) for their new open-access platform. Everyone thinks that it's a shoo-in for F1000.

I have a Keith McMillen K-Mix audio device that I use for music-making. I noticed, though, that if you have a simple stereo setup on this, with, say, monitors plugged into outputs 1 and 2 (the master outs) then you basically lose a huge amount of bass response on Linux. I confirmed this trying it on Windows and Linux and, in Linux, the bass is totally missing. In fact, the sound is weak.

A lot of the social media posts that I've seen recently about the UCU's call for "Action Short of a Strike" (ASOS) are fixated on the idea that everyone's contract stipulates that they will work from 9 in the morning until 5 (or 6) in the afternoon and that one should not work outside these hours. One should not send email, either, apparently outside these hours.

Thinking aloud. The [San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)](https://sfdora.org/) is undoubtedly a good idea, in my view. The thrust of the declaration states that research should only be assessed at the unit level, rather than at the level of the journal/venue.

Who do you think was responsible for the monumental failure of judgement that ended with Toby Young being appointed to a regulatory body for HE in the UK, the so-called but misnamed "Office for Students"? You'd think that it would be impossible that anybody actually ran a recruitment panel that would come to such a conclusion, but the Department for Education got back to me today on my Freedom of Information request to provide answers to my

Let's assume that we have a Learned Society that fulfills the following conditions: 1. The society wants to move to an OA model for the good of disciplinary dissemination. 2. The society has an existing subscription base. 3. The society can take a hit of 3% on its subscription revenue. 4. The society can handle a 90% renewal rate alongside the 3% hit.