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

As a member of the organising committee of the Digital Humanities in a Global Context meeting in Mexico City, I share the extended deadline for our CFP.

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.

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.

Opening Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing is a SpringerOpen book (using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license) that will be published in a few weeks. If you can’t wait for the book to be published and/or you want to make comments or suggestions, go to the dynamic book online version at http://book.openingscience.org.

We’ve been conducting a quick (really!) survey on using Twitter for engagement with research.

I have a blog hosted at City where I try to post updates about what we are doing in the course. In my latest post there I announce I have set up a new practice blog that only students and I can access, so they can practice without the anxieties of publicness.

This year’s SpotOn London conference will take place at the British Library. I’ll be participating in a workshop on science and HSS collaboration on Friday 8 November 2013.

Today I’m attending the Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences event at Senate House, University of London. Last night The Conversation UK published a piece by me in their “Hard Evidence” section, which they titled “Is open access working?”.

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.