Software to roll-your-own Open Access journal are now fairly easy to get hold of. OJS is available from the Public Knowledge Project as Free Open Source Software, Annotum builds on top of Wordpress and there are forthcoming projects such as Faculty that also broaden the field.

This post is written in response to a question by the ace Bernie Folan, from Sage publishers, who asked whether ORCID has the potential to disrupt, or conversely endorse, the problems in publication driven by accreditation structures. Here's a few of my hastily assembled, initial thoughts... First off, for those who don't know, ORCID is an identifier system for scientists and scholars.

A teenager has been arrested for posting a picture of a burnt remembrance poppy. Nick Griffin walks free despite tweeting the address of a gay couple who won their appeal against discrimination advocating a "British justice squad" who should "show them a bit of drama". Free speech assumes the agency of the speaker, but the justice system presumes the opposite for the listener.

In the past few weeks I've had several peer review requests and it has always struck me that it is far too easy to come across as a heartless bastard when blind reviewing work. That's why I have decided to always be kind in my reviews, even when offering the harshest of criticism.

A trip down the Yodel depot this morning yielded my copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die in which I have a review of Marukami's flawed masterpiece, 1Q84 . The book itself is a lovely object and I'd encourage everybody to have a copy, even if, obviously, the project is doomed to exclude many deserving works.

Frequent readers may recall that I had implemented CLOCKSS support in OJS. I'm sad to say that the original commit was flawed and it was decided that the best thing to do was to revert it, the reason being that there was no selective option to turn off the CLOCKSS manifest. Anyway, after extensive work, I've re-done the patch so that OJS has fully customizable CLOCKSS support that can be enabled and disabled independently from LOCKSS.

Although I want to preface this with my usual warnings about too much meta, I did speak to the Times Higher Education this week for a piece they were doing on blogging. If you read the original piece, you'll note that the quotation is an elided excerpt, so I thought it worth sharing the full spiel, as I think it comes off very differently. On Academic Blogging was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on November 01, 2012.

23rd March 2013 This one-­day symposium hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London aims to bring together postgraduates and academics to explore how the issues of feminism, influence and inheritance animate or problematize their work and practice in the field of literary study.

Adorno, Theodor W. ‘The Essay as Form’. The Adorno Reader. Trans. Bob Hullot-Kentor & Frederic Will. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 92–111. Print.

I'm pleased to say that my patch to add a CLOCKSS manifest to OJS' LOCKSS page has been merged! This means that anybody who wants to sign up to be archived by CLOCKSS -- which is a subscription-based, geographically distributed dark archive -- will no longer have to modify the OJS manifest to be included.

It seems that 2012 really was the “tipping point” for Open Access, especially in the UK. The Finch Report has mandated OA for RCUK-funded projects and the implementation phase is now hastily underway. No longer can Open Access be seen as a minority issue; it's here and it's here to stay. As one struggle ends, another begins though, like a grim phoenix rising from the ashes.