I'm a vocal advocate of Open Access for scholarly communication in linguistics, and have also provided training in open access issues to postgraduates and colleagues. My main current activities in this area:
- Editor-in-chief of the platinum open access Journal of Historical Syntax
- Member of the Advisory Board of Language Science Press since January 2023
- Member of the board of LingOA since June 2021
- Member of the scientific board (wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of open-access.network since Spring 2020
- Blogging about OA at https://oaling.wordpress.com (Twitter: @oalinguistics), including the compilation of a list of platinum Open Access linguistics journals
Here are some OA-related things I've done in the past:
- Founded the platinum OA Journal of Historical Syntax in 2011, which was briefly a section of Language (2013-2017), but is now an independent journal once again.
- Organized and chaired a CIDRAL talk by linguistics OA pioneer Dieter Stein, February 2013.
- Member of the advisory group of Manchester Open Library (to 2017)
- Provided training in use of Open Journal Systems (OJS) software:
- to Manchester University Press staff, August 2014
- to student members of Manchester Medical Research Society, December 2014
- Delivered a training session on OA publishing:
- at the LAGB Postgraduate Summer School, Oxford, September 2014 [slides]
- as part of a Manchester postgraduate masterclass on linguistics publishing, November 2014 [slides]
- as part of artsmethods@manchester, March 2015 [slides]
- at the Publication Seminar, Osaka University, August 2021 [slides]
- as part of ERUA's Open Science Meetups, July 2022 [slides]
- Spoke on OA at the Manchester SOAR Becoming a Researcher workshop, June 2015 [slides]
- Gave a talk on OA journals without APCs at the SLE pre-workshop on the uncertain future of linguistics publishing, Leiden, September 2015 [slides]
- Spoke on OA at Academic Book Week debate Opening the Book: the future of the academic monograph, John Rylands Library, November 2015
- Member of the editorial board of Open Generative Syntax and Open Germanic Linguistics (at Language Science Press) since 2016 and 2020 respectively
- Editor of ScienceOpen's Language Change collection (currently dormant)
- Briefly interviewed for Deutschlandfunk on my love of OA (while wearing my cool OA T-shirt - shame it wasn't a TV interview).
- Wrote an open letter to the ERC Scientific Council in July 2020 encouraging them to commit to Plan S
