Juan Gabriel, in memoriam.

I have co-edited with Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. We have published a new addition to the collection.

Shouldn’t calls for papers include licensing and access type information?

This is part IV. For necessary context, methodology, limitations, please see here (part 1),  here (part 2), and here (part 3). Since this was published and shared for the first time I may have done new edits. I often come back to posts once they have been published to revise them.

An update on my work doing basic text analysis of a sample dataset of #WLIC2016 Tweets.

Here’s an edited list of the top 50 most frequent terms extracted from a cleaned dataset comprised of 10,721 #WLIC2016 Tweets published between Monday 15/08/2016 10:11:08 EDT and Wednesday 17/08/2016 07:16:35 EDT.

I have looked at the text from 4,945 Tweets published with #WLIC2016 since 14/08/2016 until 15/08/2016 11:16:06 (EDT, Columbus Ohio time).

As part of ongoing research in collaboration with my colleague Domenico Fiormonte on academic publishing and ‘monopolies of knowledge’ we have been looking at the available data on the amount of money universities spend on journal subscriptions.

A quick note on #dhdiversity. What is it that defines us a scholars?

“The BBC’s Great Debate” was broadcasted live in the UK by between 20:00 and 22:00 BST. I collected some of the Tweets tagged with #BBCDebate using a Google Spreadsheet. I have shared a dataset and share some insights from the data here.

The so-called Nabokov Genitalia Cabinet in Nabokov’s former office at Harvard University’s Comparative Zoology department.