This month I will be participating as a “curator” of the Digital Reading Network’s blog by posting some brief articles around the general topic of “digital comics”.

Where I link to the four posts of the series where I have been sharing some results of our look at the tweets we gathered from the #MLA14 backchannel.

A first look at my research into the #MLA14 backchannel. How many tweets were tagged with #MLA14 since September? Read this to find out.

I am very happy to announce the publication of a new cluster at MediaCommons’ The New Everyday: “The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life” edited and curated by David N. Wright and myself.

Today I received proof that Elsevier are also sending takedown notices to UK universities – asking them to takedown copies of their staff’s academic research papers, hosted on university webpages. The full text is further down this post (in red). It is not just Academia.edu, it is not just the University of Calgary, University of California-Irvine, or Harvard University.

A post inspired by “How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science”, an opinion piece at the Guardian by Professor Randy Sheckman, 2013 Nobel prize winner in physiology or medicine.

I’d just like to point out to anyone who asks, particularly CRC Press (part of Taylor&Francis Group, who are in turn part of Informa PLC) that by posting the full text of my book chapter to Academia.edu I am *not* breaching the copyright transfer agreement I signed.

My piece “Open Access: Towards Fairer Access to Research” is up on the Impact of Social Sciences blog. It will also appear in the eCollection in for the Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference on Thursday 24 October 2013 in Senate House, University of London. Printed copies will be available as well as electronic versions then.

The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog published my rebuttal of that Science magazine article on predatory journals.

Yesterday I published my response to the recent article on Science Magazine titled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?”, on The Comics Grid blog.