Guest Seminar: Martin Eve

As part of the Doctoral School’s ongoing programme, we have invited a distinguished guest speaker Professor Martin Paul Eve to talk to about academic publishing and open access. The seminar will take place from 1-3pm on Wednesday 28th March in UL110 (University Library).

Open access is an important political topic. Funders, governments, and universities are seeking to make academic publications as broadly available as possible. These changes pose many challenges to the traditional economics, politics, and practices of scholarly communications. In this talk, Martin Eve will discuss the open access landscape in the UK and beyond, covering economic reconfigurations, UK policy discourse, and the forthcoming mandate for monographs.

About the Speaker:
Martin is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and a former colleague of the University of Lincoln. Martin is well-known for his work on open access and HE policy, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academy Policy Series on the topic, being a steering-group member of:

• OAPEN-UK project
• Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group & Scholarly Communications Advisory Group
• SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications
• Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Access Steering Group
• Collaborative Knowledge Foundation advisory board
• And many other OA initiatives

Martin is also an Executive Board Officer for Punctum Books, and founded the ever-growing Open Library of Humanities; a non-profit open access publisher for the humanities and social sciences, whose publishing model relies on support from an international collection of libraries effectively combating the need for Article Processing Charges.

To book onto the event, click here: https://lncn.eu/cu25.