My 2019 in review

This was, in many ways, a pretty bad year for me. My health has, to be frank, been appalling once more. It has necessitated treatment with cyclophosphamide in hospital, a chemotherapy agent that makes you feel very unwell and leaves your immune system vulnerable to every vulturous bug under the sun. As a result of the damage to my immune system, I also need lifelong immunoglobulin therapy to ensure that I am not killed by a common cold turning into pneumonia. This is all not great. I was not best pleased by the election result in the UK, either.

In other ways, it has been a very good year for me. I won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize. We also won a Coko Foundation Open Publishing Award at OLH. We were awarded a £3m grant from Research England for the COPIM project. The Arcadia Foundation gave an additional grant towards this same project of £800,000. My book, Close Reading with Computers was published. The final manuscript of our edited volume went to The MIT Press and was accepted. Two other books went under contract. I completed the Metrics for Open Monographs project for Jisc.

I also achieved a significant musical milestone, signing to Tici Taci records; my favourite music label of all time.

This wasn't a bad year.

Books

• Eve, Martin Paul, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Eve, Martin Paul, Cameron Neylon, Daniel O'Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and others, Reading Peer Review (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Eve, Martin Paul, Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (Stanford University Press: 2019)

Edited Volumes

• Eve, Martin Paul, and Jonathan Gray, eds., Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020)

Journal Articles

• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literature: Jennifer Egan's Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City', LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 2020
• McGovern, Melanie, and Martin Paul Eve, 'Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli's Abortion Eve', The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 9.1 (2019), 6.1-6.28
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock's I'm Jack', Critique: Studies In Contemporary Fiction, 60.3 (2019), 330–41

Book Chapters

• 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 Jennifer Edmonds (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Philosophy', in Thomas Pynchon in Context, ed. by Inger H. Dalsgaard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Pynchon and the New Materialism', in The New Pynchon Studies, ed. by Joanna Freer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Late Modernism, Postmodernism, and After', in The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, ed. by Peter Boxall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Publishing and Information', in The Oxford Handbook of Publishing Studies, ed. by Angus Phillips and Michael Bhaskar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• 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 Wendy Knepper and Courtney Hopf (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Book Reviews

• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Review of Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford; Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels by Lee Clark Mitchell; and Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing by Nicholas Thoburn', American Literature, 91.3 (2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Review of Anthony Uhlmann's Saint Antony in His Desert', Electronic Book Review, 2019
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Review of Enumerations: Data and Literary Study by Andrew Piper', Modern Philology, 2019

Conference Papers/Talks

• Eve, Martin Paul, 'The Future of Open Research and Its Impact on Humanities and Social Science' (presented at the Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Plan S, Alternative Business Models, and Open Access Monographs' (presented at the Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle, London, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Digital Humanities, Open Publishing, and Literary Studies' (presented at the Vice-Chancellor's Seminar, University of London, London, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Open Monographs Metrics Experiment' (presented at the Metrics for Monographs Meeting, Jisc Collections, London, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'The Economics and Political-Economics of Open-Access Monograph Publishing' (presented at the Open Access Monographs: From Policy to Reality, University of Cambridge, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'OA and Learned Societies' (presented at the NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Open Access and the Slow Onset Storm for the Humanities' (presented at the Fordham/Birkbeck Symposium on Digital Scholarship, Fordham University, London, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'The Sacred Unreadable Artefact: Digital Preservation, Computational Abundance, and Scarce Access' (presented at the Digital Library Futures: Symposium on Non-Print Legal Deposit, University of Cambridge, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Plan S: Origins, Developments, Speed' (presented at the UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition, Telford, England, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Fact and Fiction, Proximity and Profundity, Distance and Depth' (presented at the The Mediated Text, Loughborough University London, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, John Willinsky, and Oya Rieger, 'Consortial Funding Models: What Are They and How Do They Work?' (presented at the OASPA Webinar, Online, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Starting an Open Access Journal' (presented at the Publishing Workshop, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 2019)
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Open Access and Monographs' (presented at the Technē Congress, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 2019)

Other Articles

• Eve, Martin Paul, 'If We Choose to Align Open Access to Research with Geo-Political Borders We Negate the Moral Value of Open Access', LSE Impact Blog, 2019
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Open Metrics for Monographs Experiment: Final Report', Jisc Open Metrics Lab, 2019
• Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, 'Plan S: One Year On', Research Europe, 2019, 8–9
• Lem, Pola, and Martin Paul Eve, 'Worried Societies Air Their Concerns as They Search for Plan S Solutions', Research Europe, 2019, 7
• McKenzie, Lindsay, and Martin Paul Eve, 'Linking Liability: Sci-Hub, a Repository for Pirated Research Papers, Is Widely Acknowledged to Be Illegal. But Is Sharing a Link to the Site Illegal, Too?', Inside Higher Ed, 2019
• Mayo, Nick, and Martin Paul Eve, 'Journal's Plan to Review Preprints Aims to Kill "Desk Rejects"', Times Higher Education, 2019
• Eve, Martin Paul, and Lizzie Sayer, 'Distributed Models for Open Access Publishing: Q&A with Martin Eve', International Science Council, 2019
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'Open Metrics for Monographs: Background Contexts and Literature Review', Jisc Open Metrics Lab, 2019
• Eve, Martin Paul, Andy Byers, Mauro Sanchez, and Paula Clemente Vega, 'Janeway. An Open Insights Interview with Martin Paul Eve, Andy Byers and Mauro Sanchez', Open Insights, 2019
• McKenzie, Lindsay, and Martin Paul Eve, 'Making Monographs Open', Inside Higher Education, 2019
• Eve, Martin Paul, 'In or out, Green or Gold? Plan S Raises Questions for the REF', Research Fortnight, 2019

Music

• Course Correction - Mine/Fly [2019]
• Martin Eve - The Learning Experience (Tici Taci) [2019]
• Javier Busto - Dopamine (remix) (Nuff Music) [2019]
• The Long Champs - Opsimath & Eremite EP (remix) (Tici Taci) [2019]

My 2019 in review was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on December 14, 2019.