Introduction

I am a researcher and publisher working within the humanities and information science, with a focus on ethics and inclusive systems. At UCL my PhD research looks at public archaeology in India, specifically at issues of community engagement and utilisation of cultural heritage.

I also run a researcher-focused publishing company called Ubiquity Press, which specialises in open access academic journals and open data. We work on different ways to break down barriers to publishing, and have several interesting projects underway. In relation to this I am also employed by the British Library, where I currently run a project to establish and expand the Dryad system in the UK. Dryad is a data repository for scientific journals which provides open access to the data underlying their publications.

What's New

July 15, 2011 Presented talk titled An OA Publisher on Campus: Ubiquity Press, Open Access Publishing in the Arts and Humanities Conference, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
June 28, 2011 Presented talk titled Research Data, Publishers and Libraries, "Libraries and Research Data: Exploring Alternatives for Services and Partnerships" workshop, LIBER Annual Conference, Barcelona.
16 May, 2011 Presented talk titled Open Access and Open Data - and Why they Matter for Archaeology, ACRN and CASPAR workshop "Archaeologists and the Digital. Towards Strategies of Engagment", UCL, London.
19 March, 2011 Presented talk titled DryadUK: Challenges, Solutions and Implications, JISC Managing Research Data International Workshop, Birmingham.
September 22, 2010 Presented talk titled LIFE3: A Predictive Costing Tool for Digital Collections, at iPRES 2010: 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, Vienna.
August 25, 2010 Edited and released Present Pasts Volume 2 Number 1, which contains papers from the WAC Ramallah inter-congress on "Overcoming Structural Violence", held in 2009.
July 27, 2010 Presented talk titled Understanding the true costs of Digital Preservation at the Decoding the Digital conference at the British Library.
July 5, 2010 Presented talk titled LIFE3: Predictive Costing of Digital Preservation at the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting in Madrid. Then stuck around and attended a few days of the Open Repositories conference.
February, 2010 Overcoming Structural Violence: The WAC Inter-Congress in Ramallah August 2009 by Brian Hole published in Public Archaeology (Volume 9 Number 1).
February 27, 2010 Presented talk titled Predicting Digital Preservation Costs for Newspapers at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) annual conference in Delhi.
November 19, 2009 Presented talk titled Politics, Religion and Violence in Indian Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology Heritage Studies Research Group.
February 6, 2009 Presented talk titled Archaeology: The Pagan Threat with Gabriel Moshenska at the UCL Institute of Archaeology Heritage Studies Research Group.
December, 2008 The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas (Courtney Jung) reviewed by Brian Hole in Public Archaeology (Volume 7 Number 4).
November, 2008 The Debate at Avebury by Brian Hole - opinion piece published in Current Archaeology (Volume 225).
December, 2007 Human Remains: Retain or Return? by Brian Hole - opinion piece published in Current Archaeology (Volume 214).
October, 2007 Presented talk titled Human Remains in Museum Collections to the Birkbeck Archaeology Society.
September, 2007 Playthings for the Foe: The Repatriation of Human Remains in New Zealand by Brian Hole published in Public Archaeology (Volume 6 Number 1).