New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence. buff.ly/7radka2

OA WEEK: Next week (20-26 October) is #OAWeek! At the OABN, in collaboration with @copim.bsky.social , we've gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA books or open infrastructures & shared the details in this post: 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/i...

How can individuals foster enhanced research culture, and institutions embed it meaningfully? Exploring this, GW4 Re-Culture is now open for applications! This creative, skills-based programme explores how we can build a flourishing research culture across GW4 universities: buff.ly/zbS1QJP

RECORDING: the recording of our recent webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors', organised with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency, is now available to view and share: 📺 youtu.be/vVf9GspOs8g?... #OAbooks #OpenAccess @operaseu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Thanks @iansample.bsky.social at @theguardian.com podcast for chatting #ScientificPublishing. This pod follows from The Strain on Scientific Publishing & reports of publisher profit margins rivalling Google etc... Paper: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Interested in experimental book publishing? Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project! 📆 4 October 2025 ⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST 📍 Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London More details 👉

Sign up, sign up to this free webinar which takes place in one week's time! Hear from the authors and series editors of #OpenAccess books about their experiences 👇

Mohammed Alsudairi and I wrote a book on Sino-Middle Eastern relations! Permanently in OpenAccess as part of @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org's Elements in Middle East Politics series. 🔗https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/narratives-of-sinomiddle-eastern-futures/9ED65BBD5309CF1D7943B0B604E5F8A5

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis. 2nd-5th September - all welcome. This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms. More details and registration:⬇️

Join @kjsanders.bsky.social and @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social later today to discuss 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿 FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OpenAccess after the event 📹 📆 Wed 25th June 🕰️ 2pm (BST) 🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu

Hello ASAPbio Community! We would like to invite you to one of the upcoming Community Calls of 2025! We will be discussing: ✨ OpenRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social ✨ Research Fraud ✨ Replacing Academic Journals ✨ Experiments in Publishing Register for the Call 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social. Details here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓 The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all. No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨ Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen! 👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV

Take part in today's event 'Creating An Open Culture: A Reflection on GW4’s UKRN Train-the-Trainer Programme', 13:15-14:15! Speakers include: David A. Ellis, @uniofbath.bsky.social Lis Grey, @bristoluni.bsky.social Katy Huxley, Cardiff University Matt Lloyd Jones, @exeter.ac.uk buff.ly/Kzy1cc5

GW4 Open Research Week 2025 is finally here! 🥳💡👏 Join us every day this week for a host of online sessions, celebrating and showcasing best practices in open research & open culture. ⏰ Open to all and there's still time to register! gw4.ac.uk/gw4orw25/

There is still time to sign up for the GW4 Open Research week next week 31 Mar - 4 Apr, we are looking forward to lots of interesting discussions gw4.ac.uk/gw4orw25/

Join us online for the GW4 Open Research Prize Awards on 2 April 2025! 🎓✨ Celebrate groundbreaking open research and hear from shortlisted entrants & leading academics, including keynote speaker Prof. Marcus Munafò. 📅 2 April 2025 | 12:30–3pm | Online 🔗 Register now: buff.ly/b2MN4f3 #OpenResearch

What can open institutional publishing offer? How is it making a difference, and why does it matter? 📖 💬 From bibliodiversity to author care; LSE Press's @philippagrand.bsky.social & @suzannetatham.bsky.social explore the overdue comeback of institutional publishing for @timeshighered.bsky.social.

#ExeterUni researchers 📢 We have a new institutional membership with Cogitatio Press, no charge to publish #OpenAccess in all 5 full #OA journals when you are corresponding author: www.cogitatiopress.com/index/about/...

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

🥁 Reminder: Our next PCI webinar is on March 20, 2025, at 4 PM CET. Sabina Leonelli from the Technical University of Munich will discuss "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair." For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/49QXV0R

Horizon Europe Open Science Requirements in Practice @openaire.bsky.social webinar next week: Friday 14 March 11am UK time ✅Learn the requirements for #OpenAccess and #RDM ✅Find out how to comply ✅OpenAIRE tools & Services ✅Ask questions

EVENT: 'Beyond Mandates: Fostering a Culture of Open Access Book Publishing' Co-hosted by @knowledgeen.bsky.social & Copim Thurs 6 March @ 12:30 GMT "A more effective and lasting avenue to OA for books might be to embed open research & publishing within universities" Sign up:

Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland & Teesside Universities invite you to their Open Research Week - March 24th-28th. Events are via TEAMS. Please share widely with all your networks! @dulib.bsky.social librarytalksunderland.libcal.com/calendar/res...

Don't forget - there's still time to enter this year's GW4 Open Research Prize for your chance to win a £250 voucher. Prizes will be awarded to the top entry across three categories - widening reach, improving quality and the poster prize. Enter by 28 Feb: https://buff.ly/4dXBHM3

GW4 Open Research Week 2025! 🌍 Join #GW4 from 31 March – 4 April 2025 for a week of discussions & interactive sessions on Open Research: Open Culture. Explore how openness enhances research integrity, collaboration, and impact. 📅 Open to GW4 & beyond! 🔗 Full details: https://buff.ly/411fUyN

Don't forget to submit your entry to this year's #GW4OpenResearchPrize! Prizes of £250 in vouchers will be awarded to the top entry across each of the three categories: - Widening Reach - Improving Quality - Poster Prize Apply by 28 Feb: https://buff.ly/42Xf9t6 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch

The deadline for this year's #GW4OpenResearchPrize has been extended to 28th February, so there's still time to submit your work and gain recognition for best practices in open research. gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea... @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

So great to read that this entire book series, Elements in History and Contemporary Society, will be published #OpenAccess with no charge to the author🥳 #OA publishing costs funded by the Royal Historical Society🙏

#ExeterUni researchers, our publishing agreement with @plos.org includes new options from 2025: PLOS Complex Systems & PLOS Mental Health Publish #OpenAccess without publishing fees when you are corresponding author, in 12 PLOS journals full list on this page: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ope...

Interested in getting your work published #OpenAccess but not sure about the different paths available? Join our free intro to OA publishing training session online on Monday 24th February with our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social. Book your place here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #AcademicSky

Hi, #GW4 researchers [Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter] The deadline for #GW4OpenResearchPrize is Friday 14 Feb. Don't miss the chance to get recognised for incorporating or enabling #OpenResearch practices in your work Find out more and apply: gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea... @gw4alliance.bsky.social

🔊🎉Our new semester's programme of Open Research Conversations is now available, including sessions on early career researchers, open research across different epistemic cultures, indigenous data sovereignty, & more. These online sessions are open to all - sign up here: #OpenResearch #AcademicSky

It was a pleasure to work with Ennia Bosshard et al on this brand new paper! Read to learn more about factors that encourage or discourage adoption of pro-environmental practices by smallholder farmers besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uniexecec.bsky.social #conservationscience🌎

#ExeterUni Postgraduate & Early Career Researchers - do you want to find out more about your options when publishing #OpenAccess ? We still have spaces available for an online session next week - Weds 5 Feb 14:00-15:00 - ‘Researcher Development : Publishing in Open Access’ Sign up link below🙂

⏳ The deadline is fast approaching for this year's GW4 Open Research Prize! Apply by 14th February 2025 to be in with a chance of winning a £250 voucher! https://buff.ly/4dXBHM3 Looking for inspiration? Take a look at last year's winning entry for more ideas:

Holy heck-we're closing in on 1000 people already registered for our Open Research Week in February 2025! If you're interested in all things open from small charities, training, measuring, AI, reward, & everything in between: www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-researc... Free, recorded, open to all!

#ExeterUni researchers, our institutional #OpenAccess policy has been revised, you only need to deposit in ORE when required for funder or REF compliance ✅claim your outputs in Symplectic ❎no need to upload to ORE if it’s published #OA with CC BY licence, or already compliant in another repository

📣 Big news! After a successful launch we are delighted to announce that SUP has expanded its scope to include submissions from researchers at all UK higher education institutions! Let's publish more #OpenAccess books 🔓📚 Read all about it here: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...

🚨 An article I wrote with @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Gabriel Kupper @hass-cornwall.bsky.social is now available 📣 Open Access 📣 in the Journal of War & Culture Studies. It’s on journalism at the Iraq War’s 20th anniversary, cultural memory & political ‘overing’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UKRI #OpenAccess requirements for monographs, chapters, edited collections have been in effect for a year! 6 Exeter books published #OA under the new policy in 2024🥳 & more to come in 2025😀 #ExeterUni researchers, contact us about #OA options for your UKRI-funded books, we can help you to comply👍

🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/

Newest issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social out today - link below. If you think academic publishing needs to change & you work on public health, do consider publishing in, & otherwise supporting, this journal as they forge a new path, away from commercial publishers. It can't be easy but amazing to see

#GW4 researchers📢 Are you maximising the reach of your research by incorporating or enabling open research practices in your work? The #GW4OpenResearchPrize is open for submissions - apply by 14 February. Find out more: gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea... @gw4alliance.bsky.social

Had a really fun time chatting with @jacoates.bsky.social for the Preprints in Motion podcast (Follow @ripplingideas.bsky.social). #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity 🧪

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices? The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025. www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

Join the Experimental Publishing Group later this week for a fascinating seminar! 🗓️ Thursday 16th January ⏰ 16:00 GMT 📍 Online using kMeet Speakers: Remi Kalir (Duke University), Sonja Visser (Hypothes.is) & Janneke Adema (@openhumanities.bsky.social) 🔗 buff.ly/4a3swt5

Delighted to be continuing our support for ‪@proghist.bsky.social‬ in 2025 #DiamondOpenAccess #DigitalHumanities

Hi👋 We are the Open Research Team in the Library at University of Exeter, supporting #OpenResearch, #OpenAccess publishing and #ResearchDataManagement #RDM. We’ll be posting on Bluesky from now on.