This is an event held by Brunel University London Library to mark Open Access Week.

The way in which researchers publish their work is undergoing a profound transformation. The introduction of digital technologies that shift the cost of publishing to the labour to first copy, rather than in the actual dissemination, changes the research-publication landscape.

Where previously scholars committed their work to journals that were printed and sold (to small audiences), with the advent of the internet and the world wide web comes the possibility of giving free access to anybody who is interested, not just to those who can pay.

In this talk, Dr. Martin Paul Eve will explore the contexts and controversies that sit behind so-called "open-access" publishing and present alternative models for the future of research communication.

Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a senior lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave, 2014); Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and Password [a cultural history (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2016). He is a founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation platform, the Open Library of Humanities.