Open Access in the humanities: benefits, challenges and economics

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Martin Paul Eve will deliver a talk entitled, “Open Access in the Humanities: Benefits, Challenges, and Economics.†This event is free and open to the public.Martin Paul Eve is a Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, U.K., in the Faculty of Media Humanities and Performance, working on literature and technology. Martin specializes in 20th- and 21st- century American fiction, particularly the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. He is also interested in various strands of critical theory, including Theodor W. Adorno, Michel Foucault and Ludwig Wittgenstein.In addition to this, Martin works on publishing technologies and the analysis of these forms. This is undertaken through practical research interventions, most notably seen in his well-known work on open access publishing. In addition to his scholarly literary research, Martin also edits Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon and Alluvium, as well as establishing the Open Library of Humanities Project. He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional in C# and the .NET Framework.Martin is currently on research leave working on the Open Library of Humanities project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.