W-Ray the @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social whippet mascot is supporting the 'Screening the Fleet' event today in Sheffield!#openaccess #academicpublishing

🚨 Reminder! We still have tickets available for Screening the Fleet – 50 Years of the Navy on Screen 🎬 If you—or anyone you know—are interested in media, military history, or British TV, don’t miss this one. Come along and get signed up!

Last run through of my talk for #OpenFest tomorrow, pretty much bang on an hour so I'm going to have to speak fast and attempt to not go off track. Hopefully it'll be an enjoyable, if general, overview of EDI issues in Open Research. I hope you'll come along! sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

WRUP colleagues will also be available to discuss Open Access publishing. This event is open to all—so please share. Join us for conversation, insight, and reflection on Britain’s naval traditions on screen. We look forward to seeing you there!

Prof Rayner shares his research in a talk and discussion with Chris Terrill—filmmaker & broadcaster—followed by an audience Q&A. 📅 Thu 18 Sept,🥂 Drinks 17:15, 🎤 Talk 17:30. 📍Lecture Theatre 02, The Diamond, Sheffield. 🎟️ Free – registration required 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

⚓️ Event Alert: Screening the Fleet – 50 Years of the Navy on Screen How has the Royal Navy been portrayed on screen over the past 50 years? What can these depictions reveal about culture, politics, and national identity? Join us for an evening of discussion with Prof Jonathan Rayner & Chris Terrill.

🛡️ August is National Immunisation Month WRL supports cutting-edge research, with papers on immunisation, policy, and practice - supporting global knowledge-sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration. To explore, click the🔗: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk #OpenAccess #WRRO #Immunisation

Our fab colleagues in the Research & Innovation service have launched a new home for Leeds research stories 📚 researchatleeds.leeds.ac.uk Follow for more: 🔹 LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/showcase/res... 🔹 Bluesky – @researchleeds.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #ResearchAtLeeds #LeedsUni #OpenResearch

Excellent, insightful conversation on the What the REF podcast between @simonhettrick.bsky.social and Marcus Munafo (@ukrepro.bsky.social) covering REF, open and transparent research and research culture (also rowing) youtu.be/uHRQjNqY6CY

It’s World Hepatitis Day! 🌍 Here at White Rose Research Online, you can access the latest research on new trials and studies — all free to read, no paywalls. Explore cutting‑edge findings here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/search/a... #WorldHepatitisDay #OpenAccess #Research

Forthcoming collections including Two Sides of the Straits and Sand from the Urns (Paul Celan, bilingual edition).

At White Rose University Press we’re proud to continue celebrating transformative poetry with volumes like Oysters, Nightingales and Cooking Pots (Tristan Corbière intranslation) universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/books/m/10.2...

Today marks the anniversary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s death — a reminder of how his visionary poetry (Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) still shapes the way we imagine nature, myth, and the mind.

📚✨ Today we're playing an emoji game — and we want you to join in! Can you guess the White Rose University Press books from just a string of emojis? 👀🔍 (Yes... we know some are a little tenuous. That's part of the challenge!) 📺the🚢 🦪🐦🍲 ⭐🚗 Drop your guesses in the replies! 💬👇 #EmojiGame #WRUP

Today we’re hosting the in-person day of the ALN Conference 2025 at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School! And would you believe it - sunshine again? It’s always sunny at ALN 😏☀️ #ALN25

Continuing our week of thanks, we’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to Professor Nikki Dibben from the @sheffielduni.bsky.social, who will be stepping down from the White Rose University Press Editorial Board after nearly five years.

Your passion, dedication, and scholarship help make open access publishing a reality. We’re grateful to be part of your publishing journey. 🙏📚💙 #ThankYou #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #WhiteRoseUniversityPress

🌟 It’s #NationalThankYouDay and we want to say a huge THANK YOU to all the incredible authors we've had the pleasure of working with at White Rose University Press.

Wishing him all the best as he brings IT and Library teams together to strengthen collaboration, enhance digital services, and help shape the University’s ambitions for AI. 🚀📚💡

🌟 Huge congratulations to @masudk.com on his appointment as Chief Digital and Information Officer at the University of Leeds! 👏 He’s been a hugely influential figure for White Rose Libraries through his work on the Executive Board and with White Rose University Press @wrunipress.bsky.social

AI & Copyright Regulatory debate with @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social, Seb Cuttill, @jsecker.bsky.social & Naomi Korn covering: 🔸Big Tech 🔸Unethical use of AI 🔸Craic - Creative Rights in AI Coalition 🔸Hallucination 🔸Misinformation 🔸Biased content How can we trust anything we see? #CILIPConf25

🔊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:⬇️

Last week to grab your tickets for the Research Culture CoP event! 🎟️ Big brains, good vibes, real talk about making research better. Don’t get stuck watching from the window 😬

WRay last night at the end of the conference. Think he had a good time @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social

Wendy’s research has also inspired the Madeleine Blaess Research Portal—a rich educational resource for schools and the wider public 🌍👉 www.madeleineblaessproject.com/about/madele....

2️⃣weeks AND only 5️⃣full Conference places to go! Join professionals from across the knowledge & information sector to exchange ideas and explore current challenges. ook today: cilipconference.org.uk #CILIPConf25

The ALN Online Conference is happening today! 🎉 Sustainable Innovation: Moving Forward in Challenging Times brings together brilliant work across academic libraries. WRL is proud to support collaboration across Leeds, Sheffield & York—part of a wider ecosystem of innovation.

🎪🎺 ROLL UP, ROLL UP! 🎠🎷 The Greatest Research Culture Show on Earth is rolling into town! 🎉 ✨ Talks! 🎞️ Films! 🎨 Workshops! 🎤 Community! 🤹 🎡 One day only — 14 July @ Nexus, Leeds 🎟️ EXCLUSIVELY for Uni of Leeds folks! Academics! Technicians! Postgrads! Professional Services staff! Researchers! ...

📢Job Alert White Rose Libraries is looking for an Admin Assistant to support collaborative work across the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York. This role is perfect for someone with strong organisational skills who enjoys coordinating activity in a dynamic, cross-institutional environment.

*Cue sultry M&S Food music and narration voice… This won’t be your average academic event. It’ll be an insight-rich, community-powered celebration of what works in #ResearchCulture. Submit by 5pm today!📝 This won’t just be a research culture event. This will be a Leeds Research Culture event.

Excited to be attending the N8 Sustainable Scholarly Publishing Statement Launch today at the University of York! Bringing together journal editors from across the N8 to support open, collaborative, and responsible scholarly publishing-essential for sharing knowledge widely and freely!

Tomorrow is the 120th anniversary of the founding of @sheffielduni.bsky.social‬ 🥳 Originally home to just 114 students in 1905, Sheffield has grown a lot since then, and we’re very proud to be a part of it! Find out more about the history of the university online: www.sheffield.ac.uk/about/history

The published article is paywalled, but the preprint, is available open access via @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social with supplementary material and links to @github.com and Zenodo for the openly licensed code and datasets 🔓 📃 💾 doi.org/10.1101/2023...

A team of European and African researchers, including scientists from @york.ac.uk, have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on the biological sex and genetic makeup of an extinct human relative 💀 Summary 👇

Open Research / BRIC / @uoylibrary.bsky.social workshop coming up next week (Thu 5 June, 10:00-11:00, online) Copyright and licensing: the basics ©️ Book your place via SkillsForge (PGRs) www.skillsforge.york.ac.uk/york/#he.dev...; or the LMS (staff) york-ac.csod.com/ui/lms-learn...

Colleagues at @uoylibrary.bsky.social have developed a methodology to promote @york.ac.uk research in White Rose eTheses Online @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social to a global audience through the use of #Wikidata Read more about this project on the Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog 👇

Call for proposals for #OpenFest25 closes this Friday! Details below:

Events like #CILIPCopy25 remind us how important it is to strike the right balance between sharing research and respecting creator ownership. #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #Copyright #CreativeCommons #WRUP

The CILIP Copyright Conference dives into authorship, AI & copyright in HE-a key conversation for academic publishing. At WRUP, we protect authors’ rights through Creative Commons licensing. Authors retain copyright, and our CC BY & CC BY-NC/ND options support openness and control over reuse.

A huge thank you to @andiesuzanne.bsky.social for her engaging talk on the research behind her latest book Understanding Mental Causation - a fascinating exploration of mind, action, and agency. #Philosophy #MentalCausation #WRUP #UniversityofLeeds #PanelDiscussion

🎤Last call for tomorrows session: Making Your Message Stick: Presentation skills for White Rose Librarians 📅 8 May | 🕛 12:00–14:00 | 💻 Online

Until 2023 it lived here at the Hall with the rest of our archive. However we wanted lots of people to see the charter and use our archives for research, so it now has a fancy new home @uoyborthwick.bsky.social. It still returns to the Hall for special occasions like today!

🧠Author Event Alert: Understanding Mental Causation – A New Start for Philosophy of Mind 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mvmy7zjm

The latest White Rose Libraries Quarterly reports are now available online! Head to the White Rose libraries website to read the latest news, activity, and updates from the WRL Repositories, White Rose University Press, and Innovation and Collaboration. whiteroselibraries.org/strategic-pl...

It's time for our first panel discussion. @masudk.com introduces our topic of 'Shaping a more inclusive future'

White Rose Libraries is starting to wind down for Easter now, but we’ll be back next week! Happy long weekend - someone keep an eye on WRay for us and make sure he doesn't eat all the eggs while we’re gone…

[NEW BLOG] Good metadata practice for Open Access books ⭐ What makes good #OpenAccess book metadata? ⭐ How can @thoth-metadata.bsky.social help with OA metadata management? 🔗 buff.ly/pAilsKM @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social

Earlier this month, promising early career lecturers and fellows from @universityofleeds.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @york.ac.uk gathered for the first lab event of the Crucible programme.

Happy Librarian Day to all who celebrate🎉 #library #Librarian #Librarylife #LibrarySky #Skybrarian #NationalLibrarianDay

Missed our joint webinar on metadata for #OpenAccess books? Fear not! The recording is now available. 👇