A twitter conversation that I had with Michelle Brook this morning. [<a href="//storify.com/martin_eve/openness-for-society-or-for-profit" target="_blank">View the story "Openness for society or for profit?" on Storify</a>] Openness for society or for profit? was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on April 19, 2014.

For my own reference: 0x0020 Apply first row conditional formatting 0x0040 Apply last row conditional formatting 0x0080 Apply first column conditional formatting 0x0100 Apply last column conditional formatting 0x0200 Do not apply row banding conditional formatting 0x0400 Do not apply column banding conditional formatting If no bitmask on the row, it is inherited from table-level properties.

This article originally appeared, in a shorter, edited form in the Guardian: Is UK humanities research reaching the widest possible audience? Today marks the launch of another report into the open access ecosystem; a space that is rapidly becoming extremely saturated.

It's almost 2 years since I founded the open access journal Alluvium, which publishes short, topical articles written by leading academics on 21-century writing and 21st-century literary criticism. Launched in June 2012 with my colleague Dr Martin Eve, the journal has gone from strength to strength and its growing readership is spread across the globe.

With his fastest turn-around in well over a decade, Paul Thomas Anderson completed production on Inherent Vice last summer, just around a year after initial screenings of The Master began.

I'm very pleased to be able to say that I will be speaking at the symposium on David Mitchell, organised by Courtney Hopf and Wendy Knepper, on the 9th May at NYU London. Should anyone else wish to attend, you can register interest online. The programme is available to download in PDF form and below in plain text.

OK, so this was utterly painful and I needed to share what finally worked for me. I have 2 x Nvidia GTX480 cards. I have 3 x monitors. I wanted to be able to run all three off the same box, using it as a single X Screen (i.e. so I can move windows between screens and it acts correctly). No matter what I tried, it wouldn't let me do so with the proprietary driver. I asked on Stack Exchange and got somewhere closer.

Martin Paul Eve, Pynchon and Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Thomas Pynchon, perhaps the most important living American author, is famed for his lengthy, complex and erudite fictions. Given these characteristics, an examination of the philosophical dimensions of Pynchon's works is long overdue.

As detailed over on the OLH site, I am very pleased to be able to say that we have secured a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch the Open Library of Humanities! To quote: Funding for the Open Library of Humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on April 07, 2014.

The Cluster and the University Library invited Dr. Martin Eve (Lincoln University) for a two day intensive workshop with Dulip Withanage and Dr. Andrea Hacker to develop and design a publication tool for Open Access books.

Since yesterday's HEFCE announcement, I've seen some comments floating around that resurrect the argument that OA mandates are a blow to academic freedom. I do not agree, and especially so when we're talking about the HEFCE mandate. With HEFCE's current policy, 96% of submissions to the last REF would have simply required authors to deposit to comply; no change of publisher policy was necessary.