Forthcoming book: Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge UP, 2014)

"I’m extremely pleased to be able to say that my next book is entitled Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future and it will be published by Cambridge University Press in November 2014, with a preface by the esteemed Peter Suber. While print copies and versions for e-readers will be available for purchase, a PDF version of the book will be itself available open access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Any royalties that I earn from sales of the book will go to Arthritis Research UK ... While I have been known for my outspoken views on OA, this book is not meant as a pro-OA polemic, even if I do eventually side with OA, but attempts to conservatively give information and arguments from both sides; it is intended to open a space in which it is possible to think critically (and sometimes more abstractly) about the research and publication practices of the academy and to allow others to join these debates. Amid some misinformation, there are genuine concerns and part of the point of this book is to move beyond the strawman debates and identify the true sticking points for all parties ..."