Having returned from a glorious week away in Crotia and Bosnia (for Pynchon fans: it was "very nice, very nice, very nice indeed"), I have returned to an inbox that features the current state of play with HEFCE's thinking on open access mandates for a post-2014 REF. In order to ensure that I've got it straight in my own head, I thought I'd write a summary post for quick reference. I'm using the PDF version as my reference.

I'm very pleased to announce that I am joining Jisc's National Monographs Strategy Expert Advisory Panel.

Last night I went to see Punchdrunk's performance of The Drowned Man, the latest in their series of promenade theatre pieces. Housed in an enormous building next to Paddington station in the middle of London, the piece was a strange mixture of ambient environmental exploration and two loose narratives of betrayal and murder, expressed through dance and physical theatre.

I'm extremely pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition on "The Front Line of OA in Humanities and Social Sciences" on the 23rd August, 2013 at the Tokyo National Institute of Informatics. I'll post more about the remit of the talk when I can, but the seminar schedule is now online. The talk will be translated, so all are welcome.

OK, this is probably one of the most specific posts I've ever written, but... I wrote a bash script to automatically fetch and parse the currently used data on the 4G EE mobile network in the UK that can then be used with Conky.

I received an interesting email this week from Nate Wright, who posed the following questions: I asked Nate if he'd mind if I replied publicly to this in a blog post because, quite frankly, this issue is important: Although we always go by the aphorism that the social problems are the ones that need fixing, we cannot neglect the technological If we do not build and maintain an open toolset, we cannot rely on the arguments derived from the free

This is a post that I have found very difficult to write, because it puts me in a conflicted position. A while back, in light of the Troy Davis execution, which profoundly upset me, I promised to boycott travel to any region that implemented the death penalty.

Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats? Dr. Martin Paul Eve, University of Lincoln Paper delivered at conference: 5th July 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. This work is at a very early stage and I'm not entirely happy with much of the logic.

I'm pleased to announce the publication of the open access booklet, Collins, Ellen and Milloy, Caren and Stone, Graham, Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors, Baker, James and Eve, Martin Paul and Priego, Ernesto (eds.), OAPEN-UK and Jisc Collections: 2013. As you can see from that list, I was privileged enough to be invited to edit this important guide.

In this piece on the future of peer review for the British Academy, I assert that, in the humanities: OA is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and our methods. 67% of existing OA journals do not charge APCs and yet academics have tended to steer clear of them.

This book chapter was written in 2010, but is finally out! Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish’, in Zombies in the Academy, ed. by Andrew Wheelan, Chris Moore, and Ruth Walker (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2013), pp. 103–117 The scholarly communication structure at present bears a strong resemblance to a malware system called a botnet.