Today, I gave a talk at Royal Holloway for the TECHNE consortium of Ph.D. students on open access and scholarly communications. In the second part of the session, as I often do, I opened up into a "blue-skies" game where I ask those present, in groups, to think through what they want from a system of scholarly communications and how they would design it from scratch today if they were freed of practical and social constraints.

New provisions in UK copyright law look promising for text and data mining. Last year, the government signed into effect an exemption to copyright for the purposes of non-commercial research.

This post is the final in an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. You can now [download my full response in a Word document format](/images/Eve-Green-Paper-Response.doc). The document total is 18,750 words. I hereby release this work under a [CC0 license](https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/).

This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 28: >How could the data infrastructure underpinning research information management be improved? The emergent challenge for the UK's research data infrastructure is in ensuring twofold that: 1.

This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 27: > How would you suggest the burden of REF exercises is reduced?

This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 25: >a) What safeguards would you want to see in place in the event that dual funding was operated within a single organisation?

This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 26: > What are the benefits of the REF to a) your institution and b) to the wider sector? How can we ensure they are preserved?

Dear Sir/Madam, I write in a personal capacity to request an internal review of my partially denied FOI request with the reference [FOI2015/25797](https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/302242/response/745563/attach/3/FOI%20Request%20ref%20FOI2015%2025797%20Meetings%20between%20BIS%20officials%20ministers%20and%20Elsevier%20Thompson%20Reuters.pdf) (pertaining to meetings between senior BIS officials and Elsevier/Thomson Reuters). Details in the

So, probably against my better thoughts with respect to quantified self stuff, I got a fitness tracker for Christmas: the Jaybird Reign. The trouble was, regardless of what I tried, it just wouldn't pair with my phone (I'd followed all the instructions). I grudgingly waited until the tech. support team was open and got in touch, thinking I'd have to RMA the unit.

This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this.

Over the holiday period I wanted to visualize the differences between two editions of a text that I had found to be very different (more on this in the new year). I couldn't find a ready-made solution, so I put together a small piece of software to achieve this: [SankeyVariant](https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/SankeyTextualVariant). The software is based on d3.js and the Sankey plugin and, with the modifications that I have introduced, it allows