Event recording now available on @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog: Archives Across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black Histories leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...

🌟🚢 We are excited to announce that Screening the Fleet by Prof. Jonathan Rayner (University of Sheffield), published by WRUP, has been nominated for the 2025 Maritime Media Awards! To read more about the nomination and the book, follow the 🔗👉 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/announcements

Join us tomorrow for our final KEN & @go-gn.bsky.social session in the series: "Elevating Equity Through #OEP" Our guests Tel Amiel and Diana Hernández Montoya will give their perspectives on #OEP in Latin America ⏰ Thu 6 Nov, 12noon-12:55 GMT 🔗 Register online: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Workshop: World in Translation: beyond English Wikipedia - 17 November leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/world...

Related: recent podcast with @yclepit.bsky.social and @richardnevell.bsky.social @wikimediauk.bsky.social discussing the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/prom...

In the face of deal cancellations, rights retention provides a valuable tool for universities to make their research outputs immediately #OpenAccess through the green route, from a repository like White Rose Research Online 👇

The University of Leeds is championing the use of Wikipedia to make education and history more accessible www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... @wikimediauk.bsky.social

Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care? leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818 Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge @akadidymus.bsky.social

Open to Collaboration: Supporting Open Research at the University of Leeds leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/o... @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @researchcultureuol.bsky.social @unileedsodpl.bsky.social

University Cultural Collections and Generative AI: Critical Approaches in a Library Context doi.org/10.48785/100... @dcch-leeds.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social

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A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Redefining the university library for 2025 and beyond @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/redef...

🗣️Speakers: 🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds) 🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)

Cambridge University Press report calls for “fewer, higher-quality papers” as libraries face “disproportionate rising costs” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o... “a timely reminder that academic publishing is dependent upon the financial state of academia itself” @eve.gd

🆕 New #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast episode! 🏛️@richardnevell.bsky.social and "Wikimedian in Residence" @yclepit.bsky.social join host @nickshepp.bsky.social to discuss @wikipedia.org and the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 🤖

Bridget will be discussing her book and its themes at this panel event next week, a collaboration with @urochester.bsky.social: Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester. leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...

Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇

Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇

Day 2 of ##Hiddenref2025 and a reminder that people are as important as outputs.

Tim Fellows talking now about @octopus-ac.bsky.social at the Festival of the @hiddenref.bsky.social REF. Planning to do more promotion of this innovative platform @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Me too…as discussed with “one of you” on the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...

#OpenScience Statement from UN's Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board. "this Scientific Advisory Board calls for urgent cooperation to advance science as a global public good – and we stress that doing so requires accelerated transformation to open science." www.un.org/scientific-a...

Proud to support @openbookpublish.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social Libraries...1st book published with them by a Leeds editor/author since we've been support from our Open Access Support Fund: Careful Village and Other 'Khashag' from Tibet - www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”! 📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom 👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ... 📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

Boosting Research Visibility: Highlights from the 2025 Research Profile Bootcamp leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/b...

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

Applications close 29 September. Find out what previous Fellows have gotten up to, and full details on how to apply, at the links above ^^ @lahri.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @openresleeds.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

This event is a bit different from usual and instead of just one or two speakers, we've got...loads! Through a series of lightning talks we hope to give you a sense of the teams and services available across the University of Leeds to support your open practice👇

This event is a bit different from usual and instead of just one or two speakers, we've got...loads! Through a series of lightning talks we hope to give you a sense of the teams and services available across the University of Leeds to support your open practice👇

📢Open Lunch is back🍕🌮🍰 Open to collaboration: supporting #OpenResearch at the University of Leeds leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... All welcome, though this event will mostly be relevant to staff and students at the University of Leeds.

Researcher Opportunities!! Are you a researcher with a background in the arts and humanities? Are you interested in exploring and showcasing world-leading cultural collections? Do you have experience in both academic research and engagement? Applications are now open for our 2025-26 Fellowships 👇

We’re excited that @masudk.com will represent #KEN at the inaugural Global Innovation Circle on Higher Education (GICHE) this October in Hannover - shaping conversations on inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures for higher Education. #GICHE #CollaborativeLeadership #FutureGenerations

Next steps for UKRN: UKRN Services will provide "an easy way for the UKRN community to offer its expertise to those who would benefit from it, for example through training, mentoring, or consultancy."

Nick in conversation with his @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social colleague Kikachukwu Oluonye and Associate Professor in Composition and Music Technology @scottmclaughlin.bsky.social

Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHS) @morphss.bsky.social morphss.hcommons.org #OpenFest25

Keep an eye out for collaborative online sessions between @knowledgeen.bsky.social and GO-GN, September-October time @beckpitt.bsky.social @rfarrow.bsky.social #OpenFest25

The GO-GN Open Research Handbook go-gn.net/gogn_outputs... *Global OER Graduate Network See here for other GO-GN resources go-gn.net/resources/ #OpenFest25

CRediT can be valuable but "by recording and measuring the productivity of a narrow range of research outputs we are not going far enough in addressing the roots of academic inequity, such as the perceptions of what it means to be a researcher and participate in research" #OpenFest25

Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/c69y2lr3... #OpenFest25

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons by @samuelmoore.org www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Available #OpenAccess, obviously 😀 #OpenFest25

Open Research podcast from the team @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091... #OpenFest25

Truly inspiring project in the face of the current United States administration's attacks on science and data #OpenFest25

Another @wrunipress.bsky.social publication, this one from the University of Sheffield Screening the Fleet: A Conversation about 50 years of the Navy on Screen Free, in-person event on 18 September: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

In a🆕episode of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast, host @tarynbell.bsky.social reflects with Dr Ireen Litvak-Zur from @advancehe.bsky.social on the recent AdvanceHE symposia on Barriers and Enablers to Thriving Research Cultures 🎧 player.captivate.fm/episode/294c...

Explore the projects and initiatives that the OASF currently endorses or has contributed to in the past: leeds.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/nui/...

The Open Access Support Fund (OASF) supports collaborative projects and initiatives to promote the development and sustainable implementation of open access and open research practices @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14061/o...

Thanks to #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast and @hallged.bsky.social for the invitation. Lovely to have chance to re-emphasise how much brilliant work is going on in the sector, and give shoutouts to some amazing people. Sorry to those I didn’t mention!

ReproducibiliTea at Leeds, The Next Generation @kellylloyd.bsky.social talks about why YOU as an ECR or PGR should consider getting involved with @reproducibilitea.org @universityofleeds.bsky.social youtu.be/P8mG0vY9wfk leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/r...

🎙️ Podcast episode 4 is out now What the REF is happening with the CKU?! Listen to What the REF?! via our website, on Youtube or wherever you usually find your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U97E... Have a question about REF you'd like answered? 👉 [email protected]