“If you want to make the world better, you've got to be prepared to put the groundwork in”: An Interview with Martin Eve on Social Justice and Design Justice in Open Access

This interview with Professor Martin Eve explores Open Access, social justice, and design justice in scholarly publishing. Eve discusses barriers in academic publishing, highlighting the exclusionary nature of paywalls and Article Processing Charges, advocating for consortial funding models. He recounts the founding of the Open Library of Humanities and the development of the Janeway platform to enable equitable access to research.

The interview was originally conducted over Zoom. This is a copyedited and annotated version based on the automated transcript (Eve & Priego 2025).