My 2018 in review

2018 was, in general, a pretty good year for me. Certainly, parts of it were marred by handling my new hearing loss, but an assistive device (a speech-filtering microphone system) has greatly helped with this, although I am still functionally deaf in many environments. On the plus side, though, I moved house to the Kent coast and it has been one of the best things we've done in years.

In personal news, I released two EPs this year, one on Logical Records and the other with Nein. I also took up a fitness programme that has seen me lose 18kg of weight this year. I am now back up to being able to do 15 chin-ups, too, which feels good.

In academic terms, perhaps most significantly this year I was awarded the KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This was truly a humbling experience for which I am extremely grateful. I also shared the Electronic Literature Organization's N. Katherine Hayles Award with the volume's other contributors and the editors for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. I was also awarded a grant this year from the Second Call for Funding for Non-Author-Fee-Based Publishing Initiatives (€30,500) from OpenAIRE, on which I was the PI. Development on Janeway continues apace.

In terms of academic publications, things went pretty well this year. I have a good pipeline in train and my next book is due out in the new year. As usual, a full list is presented below.

I wish all my friends and colleagues a merry Christmas season.

Books

• Eve, Martin Paul, Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (Stanford University Press: 2019) [in press]

Edited Volumes

• Old Traditions and New Technologies: The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Open Scholarly Communications, ed. by Eve, Martin Paul; Gray, Jonathan (MIT Press: 2019) [in press]

Journal Articles

• Severin, Anna; Egger, Matthias; Eve, Martin Paul; and Hürlimann, Daniel, "Discipline-specific open access publishing practices and barriers to change: an evidence-based review", F1000Research (7), 2018 [Download]
• Katz, Daniel S.; Allen, Gabrielle; Barba, Lorena A.; Berg, Devin R.; Bik, Holly; Boettiger, Carl; Borgman, Christine L.; Brown, C. Titus; Buck, Stuart; Burd, Randy; de Waard, Anita; Eve, Martin Paul; Granger, Brian E.; Greenberg, Josh; Howe, Adina; Howe, Bill; Khanna, May; Killeen, Timothy L.; Mayernik, Matthew; McKiernan, Erin; Mentzel, Chris; Merchant, Nirav; Niemeyer, Kyle E.; Noren, Laura; Nusser, Sarah M.; Reed, Daniel A.; Seidel, Edward; Smith, MacKenzie; Spies, Jeffrey R.; Turk, Matt; Van Horn, John D.; and Walsh, Jay, "The principles of tomorrow's university", F1000Research (7), 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas", C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings 6(3), 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul; and Street, Joe, "The Silicon Valley Novel", Literature & History, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Reading Very Well for Our Age: Hyperobject Metadata and Global Warming in Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven", Open Library of Humanities 4(1), 2018 [Download]

Book Chapters

• Eve, Martin Paul, "Philosophy", in Thomas Pynchon in Context, ed. by Dalsgaard, Inger H. (Cambridge University Press: 2019) [Email me to read] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Pynchon and the New Materialism", in The New Pynchon Studies, ed. by Freer, Joanna (Cambridge University Press: 2019) [Email me to read] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Sincerity", in The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction, ed. by Eaglestone, Robert; O'Gorman, Daniel (Routledge: 2019) [Email me to read] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Violins in the Subway: Scarcity Correlations, Evaluative Cultures, and Disciplinary Authority in the Digital Humanities", in Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research, ed. by Edmonds, Jennifer (Open Book Publishers: 2019) [Download] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "'What was knowledge for, I would ask myself': Science, Technology, and Pharmakon in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas", in David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed. by Knepper, Wendy; Hopf, Courtney (Bloomsbury Academic: 2019) [Download] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Late Modernism, Postmodernism, and After", in The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, ed. by Boxall, Peter (Cambridge University Press: 2019) [Email me to read] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "English: the Future of Publishing: 'The Future of Open Access'", in English: Shared Futures, ed. by Eaglestone, Robert; Marshall, Gail (D. S. Brewer: 2018) [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Jennifer Egan", in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century American Novelists (Bruccoli Clark Layman: 2018) [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Publishing and Information", in The Oxford Handbook of Publishing Studies, ed. by Phillips, Angus; Bhaskar, Michael (Oxford University Press: 2018) [Download] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "'Dance Like Nobody's Watching': The Mediated Shame of Academic Publishing", in Shame and Modern Writing, ed. by Sheils, Barry; Walsh, Julie (Routledge: 2018) [Download]

Reviews

• Eve, Martin Paul, "Review of Enumerations: Data and Literary Study by Andrew Piper", Modern Philology, 2018 [Download] [in press]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Review of The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention by David Letzler", Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 6(1), 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Review of Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord (Eds.)", New Formations, 2018 [Download]

Conference Papers/Events

• Eve, Martin Paul, "Where Next for the Open Library of Humanities?", CNI Fall 2018, Washington DC, USA, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Open Access and the Humanities: Economics, Books, and the Coming Storm", ISMTE European Conference 2018, London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Academic Publishing and Open Access", Open Access Week, University of Lincoln, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Where next for open access? Plan S, Brexit, and the Need for Leadership", Open Access Week, University of East London, London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Open Knowledge and Monographs: Economics, Plan S, and Academic Freedom", Open Knowledge: Process, Ethics, Possibilities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Digital Architextures: Literature, Interpretation, and Computation", Martin Paul Eve Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Close Reading with Computers", BACLS: What Happens Now 2018, Loughborough University, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Two Roads Diverged: Open Access Monographs in the United Kingdom", Jisc and CNI leaders conference 2018: The changing role for libraries in the context of the research university, Oxford, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "The Anti-Distributional Economics of Open Access", Moving Towards Full Open Access in Higher Education, Congress Centre, London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Chair's Opening Remarks", Moving Towards Full Open Access in Higher Education, Congress Centre, London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Open Access and the Humanities: Economics and Politics", Seminar on Reproducibility and Open Research, University of Oxford, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Access Problems for the Contemporary History of the Book", Books.Files, New York City, NY, USA, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Close Reading Cloud Atlas with Computers", Close Reading + DH: A Dialogue, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Open Access and the Humanities: Economic Distribution and Political Will", European Conference for the Humanities, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Academic Publishing and Open Access", Library Seminar, University of Lincoln, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Publishing technologies and digital preservation", Centre for Technology and Publishing Workshop, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul; Jubb, Michael; Johnson, Rob; and Budden, Yvonne, "Implementing full open access - repositories, monographs and methods of delivery", The next steps for delivering open access - implementation, expansion and international trends, Westminster, London, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Technology Changes Everything and Nothing in Scholarly Communications", CHASE Consortium Brief Encounters Launch, The Royal Institution, UK, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Distance and Depth", Thinking Big, Institute of English Studies, 2018
• Eve, Martin Paul; Fitzpatrick, Kathleen; Barnes, Christopher; Wacha, Megan; Blyth, Carl; and Agate, Nicky, "Open Humanities 101", MLA 2018, New York, New York, United States of America, 2018

Other Articles

• Baeten, Jos; Eve, Martin Paul; de Vries, Saskia; Kingsley, Danny; and Rooryck, Johan, "'The Open Letter: Reaction of Researchers to Plan S: too far, too risky' - a response of the Fair Open Access Alliance", Fair Open Access Alliance, 2018 [Download]
• Kafka, Alex; Eve, Martin Paul; Willinsky, John; and Morrison, Heather, "Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing?", Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018 [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Some jottings on academic freedom and Plan S/open access", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul; Kingsley, Danny; Rooryck, Johan; Suber, Peter; and de Vries, Saskia, "FOAA Board recommendations for the implementation of Plan S", Fair Open Access Alliance, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "On the practical implementation of Plan S", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Pells, Rachael; and Eve, Martin Paul, "Plan S: a shock or a solution for academic publishing?", Times Higher Education, 2018 [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Dial S for Strategy", Research Fortnight, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Institutional Cultures, Patents, and Open-Source Software for Open Access", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Pells, Rachael; and Eve, Martin Paul, "REF submission rules 'could increase burden' on departments", Times Higher Education, 2018 [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Linux CPU Frequency Scaling on the Intel i9 7980XE", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Pells, Rachael; and Eve, Martin Paul, "REF: funders 'running out of time' on open access monographs", Times Higher Education, 2018 [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "The real ethics of AI are about the labour underpinning it", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Where we are with the OA monograph mandate for the Third Research Excellence Framework?", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Transparency agendas are being used to legislate against consortial open-access models even though it has good cost outcomes", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Forthcoming Books in the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Series", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul; and Byers, Andy, "Janeway: a scholarly communications platform", Insights: the UKSG journal, 2018 [Download]
• Pells, Rachael; and Eve, Martin Paul, "LSE launches new open-access publishing platform", Times Higher Education, 2018 [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "My critique of metamodernism", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Pells, Rachael; and Eve, Martin Paul, "REF open-access requirement for books 'worth the outlay'", Times Higher Education, 2018 [Email me to read]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Thoughts on the UUK offer and why I voted yes", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "On the OA mandate for books in the Third REF and the worry over trade books", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "The Tender Document for the European Commission's Open Access Platform Asks for an Awful Lot for Not Very Much", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Action Short of a Strike Must Recognize That 9-5 is Not Always Helpful", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Keith McMillen K-Mix on Linux", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Who does the work of implementing DORA?", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Who was actually responsible for the Toby Young OfS debacle?", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "How Learned Societies Could Flip to OA Using a Consortial Model", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]
• Eve, Martin Paul, "Open Access Resources and Evaluation; or: why OA journals might fare badly in terms of conventional usage", martineve.com, 2018 [Download]

My 2018 in review was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on December 14, 2018.