It is with great pride that I can now post this: Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!

Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible. Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos

Considering just replacing all my induction slides with this one.

It's that time of year again! Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025: Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos

We're looking for some maternity cover in our team: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... come work with us!

🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community! 🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness. 💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ... #STIENID25

The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here: Data rescue and sustainability Date: 25/09/2025 Time: 16:00-17:00 Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25

New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚 My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere... 🧵>>

Alright let's do this *opens annual review* 1 hour later... I'm going to need more GF oreos *goes to kitchen to retrieve the rest of the packet*

You'd think it obvious that the catalogue doesn't replace the librarian but a great deal of my work comes from people not understanding that

The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social. This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.

Hello, I'm a librarian in a film. I'm either aged and stooped or I'm a nerdy femme fatale. Either way I wear glasses and only ever work with very outdated print tomes. I've never heard of a computer or been in a romantic relationship. There is a cardigan somewhere on screen. 📚

I have a genuine copyright/AI query - If the issue is renumeration for use (and replacement) of authors/artists work and it's been ruled in a few places that a computer cannot hold copyright - Why is it not the case that anything created by a LLM/GenAI is automatically in the public domain?

Had a entertaining moment last week when I was complaining about how I turn off AI on things. Someone waggishly pointed out that my personal fiction is also in it and I got to reply with great delight that they were stored in PCloud and on open source word processors. #ProtectYourWork

Very unusual to find a @livunipress.bsky.social journal (www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/revi...) to not have it's OA policy on Open Policy Finder! Made the query from one of our doctorate students quite hard to answer!

KU moves from Wiley: www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/as...

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

The #nih just released new info on its zero-embargo #openaccess policy, which takes effect next week (July 1). https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access This includes: * a new overview of the policy itself […]

Watch all four sessions from the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025. This year focusing on the question: “What’s stopping us?” Asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them. #OER #OpenResearch open.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-op...

Can AI train on my openly licensed research? Do I retain copyright if I choose a CC BY license? Why can’t I reuse a figure from my own paper? Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL 🗓️ 9 Jul ⏰ 15:00 UTC 🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪

Still time to book on - We've got 100+ so far!

Concerning. For those (like me) not au fait with the acronym, Wiley are saying they won't publish community peer reviewed pre-prints, and possibly any pre-print which is too close the final published version.

THIS. I call it the 'print event horizon' if it's not been digitised a LLM can never read it and there is MILLIONS of print/handwritten archival and library works/items that haven't because funding digitization just isn't sexy anymore.

*makes notes for changing all advice materials* But I don't really want to recommend Unpaywall... *sigh* blog.oa.works/sunsetting-t...

REF 2029 policy release: We’re pleased to share the guidance for the Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding element and the updated Code of Practice guidance. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop... #REF2029

The N8 Research Partnership has today released a landmark statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarly research is published

This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g... #MedLibs

As it is Global Accessibility Awareness Day ( #GAAD ) we'd like to re-draw your attention to this particular passage from the Researcher's Guide to Bluesky (blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...). Go to Settings >> Accessibility >> Require text before posting. Takes a second, makes a difference. 🧵

Repost to save a life: allthings.how/how-to-disab.... I cannot overstate the rage-inducing response I get when office randomly shoves copilot in my face. LET ME WRITE A WORD DOC THE WAY I HAVE FOR YEARS DANGIT!!!

Does anyone with more copyright knowledge than me understand why the REF's not allowing Share Alike CC licences in #REF2029?

I am thinking many words. None of them polite: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My colleague and I are running an online event about the OBC and author publishing OA books. Please do share via any channels as we'd love to get a really good discussion going! Choosing open access for books: An author journey 25/06/25 13:00 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ad8...

📣 April issue of the BL Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! This issue features: 🔹@copim.bsky.social community updates 🔹Launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social #OJC 🔹Heritage Science Data Service #HSDS 🔹Closing report from #ProjectRetain and more! us18.campaign-archive.com?u=03d177e620...

No point doing an OA policy if there's no research left to make OA but there you go... www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

Copim Compass is now live 👉 buff.ly/evuQYdn Packed full with valuable resources to help you enhance your #OAbooks publishing, explore check out the toolkit NOW to see how it can benefit you 🛠️ #CopimCompass #ToolkitLaunch

I'm hop-along-Humphreys today - The joys of late-30s todays bingo card is 'strange and mysterious extreme pain in your left foot when you put your body weight on it'... I'm going to learn a new medical name for a damaged part of my body again aren't I?

I just added the final link to the OxFOS recordings list (in our event recording archive) so if anyone's interested in listening to any sessions they couldn't attend (or having a nose around the in-person events if you couldn't make those!) I highly recommend it: openaccess.web.ox.ac.uk/recordings

My colleague has summarised Leo Lo's talk on AI (regarding the report from @ARL.org : www.arl.org/resources/th...)

@drbeth.bsky.social I'd like to add your 'PGR influence diagram' from your talk at UKSG to my report - could you share? I have digital cookies to offer in payment (and not the kind you have to click to avoid on the internet!) 🍪👍

I had the glory of a migraine at 3am for which I partially woke up, noticed and then went back to sleep so now I just feel... rubbish. So I'm having to use my 'quiet listening' playlist when my ultimate concentration band have a new album: thebirthdaymassacre.bandcamp.com/album/pathways

If you're presenting and someone's recording and you know they're going to be transcribing I have a personal plea: PLEASE put the spelling of authors you're quoting SOMEWHERE in your slide deck!!! #IHaveNoIdeaWhoThesePeopleAre

This is such an exciting journal migration! The @ilr-rit.bsky.social was est. in 1921 by the International Labour Organization, a UN Agency set up after WWI to advance social & economic justice via international labour standards. Super proud to be publishing ILR in 3 languages #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Some reading for me when I have *any* headspace: publicationethics.org/guidance/gui...

At #UKSG2025 @nielsstern.bsky.social mentioning the POSI Principles which guide the infrastructure on which the scholarly and research communities rely to be openly governed, sustainable & replicable openscholarlyinfrastructure.org. Crossref's 2024 self audit here: www.crossref.org/blog/2024-po...

Back from #UKSG2025 and I had a great time sorry-not-sorry for all the speakers who got left-field questions from me and an actual sorry for anyone who got their ear talked off! It was great to see @drbeth.bsky.social @kirstywallis.com @tmorley24.bsky.social Rebecca Wojturska and everyone else in 3D

Today we launch the Open Journals Collective, an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers. Proud to be part of it! 🙌 🔗 www.openjournalscollective.org 📖 Read the accompanying blog post: shorturl.at/H6p0M #openaccess #scholcomm

Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social announcing Open Journals Collective at #uksg2025 - read this morning's LSE Impact blog post blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Listening to @drbeth.bsky.social present on PGRs.

Sharing the gluten free cake that I risked sacrificing to the seaguls for my #UKSG2025 beach photo

Looking forward to joining the crew