🗣️"Open social science methods can be applied across all the major qualitative methods" #OpenSocialScience #OpenScience @lsepress.bsky.social @civica.bsky.social @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social @twm.bsky.social

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we want to promote Mental Health Open. This is an open access, peer-review, and data journal focussed on advancing mental health knowledge. You can check it out here: mentalhealthopen.eu/index.php/mh...

There is still time to sign up for our next #OpenAccess training session for academic and professional staff. It takes place on Wednesday, 13 May, on Strand Campus. tinyurl.com/6femkfnx @kingsnmes.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social

We are pleased to share issue #3 of King’s Open Research Quarterly! In keeping with a colourful Spring theme, we are thinking about sustainability and how ’Green’ Open Access is, along with the colours of Openness. Subscribe here: shorturl.at/DAQz9 (Kings ID required🔒) #Kings #OpenResearch

For our latest team day, we visited the Temple of Mithras in London, shared Open resources on Ancient Rome, and enjoyed some delicious pistachio cake courtesy of our talented colleague Charlotte. It was a very fulfilling day and we've highlighted some of our resources below. #OpenAccess #Kings

Stress Awareness Month King's participates in 22 R&P agreements which allow eligible King's authors to publish Gold open access without paying APCs. These agreements remove cost barriers and reduce admin burden around OA publishing. You can find out more here:

Happy World Book Day! 📚 For WBD, we're highlighting 'Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation', edited by Sara Marzagora (King's) & Francesca Orsini (SOAS). This is an Open Access book on oral traditions, storytelling & global literary circulation. Read: shorturl.at/45wVT

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate this year's Earth Day, we're highlighting the role of Open Access in supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We're proud to advocate for open access publishing for our researchers in line with these goals. Check out our thread below. 🧵

Stress Awareness Month This article explores the impact of emotionally challenging research and highlights the importance of institutional support, supervision, and wellbeing planning. Supporting researcher wellbeing is an essential part of research culture.

The London Open Science & Scholarship Festival is taking place this week! A collaborative event led by UCL and London universities, exploring key issues in Open Science—from AI to careers. Find out more and sign up: shorturl.at/UhI2F

Stress Awareness Month Creating Pure records? If your research output is already published online, you can save time and reduce stress by importing records from CrossRef or Scopus instead of creating them from scratch. See our guide on how to import research outputs into Pure:

Stress Awareness Month One of the biggest sources of research stress is sorting out data at the end of a project. Planning early using a Data Management Plan (DMP) can make projects run more smoothly and reduce pressure later on. A useful tool for writing DMPs is DMPOnline:

Stress Awareness Month Research can be stressful: deadlines, publishing pressure, data management, and compliance. Over the next month we will be sharing information and tools to help support researchers manage these pressures and to raise awareness about stress within research culture. #Kings

For our Open Research Journal Club last week, we discussed a recent study by Swanson et al. (2026) on how LLMs can perform large-scale deanonymisation at speed and relatively low cost, using micro-data gathered from unstructured text. You can read the full paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800

Call for recommendations 🙏 At our next journal club, we're going to be discussing predatory and non-reputable practices in research publishing. We're looking for recommendations for articles or papers on this topic. If you know of any please let us know!

Happy 10th Birthday to the FAIR principles! The guiding principles of data management were first published in this comment piece 10 years ago today. They state that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. You can read the article here: www.nature.com/articles/sda...

For #IWD2026, we're sharing the Gender Equality Index UK, developed by researchers at King’s College London and other universities. The Index measures gender equality across 372 UK local authorities. You can explore the open dataset, report, and interactive maps here:

This International Women's Day, we want to highlight some of the research conducted at King's relating to women's experiences and history. The English Women's Journal (1858-1864) was an influential, early feminist publication advocating for women's employment, education, and legal rights.

We're looking forward to RLUK's virtual conference from the 25th to the 27th of March. The theme of the event, 'The role of libraries in supporting civic society', feels very timely and we're excited to see what discussions emerge. You can find out more and sign up here: rlukconference.com #RLUK26

We are excited to have launch our other Open Research account on LinkedIn! We look forward to promoting our work and connecting further with the OR community across multiple platforms. If you are on LinkedIn, please check out our first post (with a lovely team photo) here: shorturl.at/ROExD

KORDS is King’s Open Research Data System — our institutional platform for securely storing, managing, and sharing research data. It supports archiving and sharing, with guidance from the RDM team on metadata, licensing, and data reuse. You can contact the RDM team here: [email protected]

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...

The Research Libraries UK Conference will take place from the 25th - 27th of March. The theme of the event is 'Stewardship in challenging times: the role of libraries in supporting civic society' You can find out more here: rlukconference.com

Really looking forward to this!

Where's the Data? 🔍🗂️ Not sure where your data belongs? Find the right repository for you at the Registry of Research Repositories. re3data.org #LoveData26 #KCL

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” Elizabeth Barrett Browning For Love Data Week, we’ve been inspired by literature, poetry & song to see some of the ways metadata makes data discoverable, understandable, interoperable & reusable. #LoveData26 #KCL

Where's the data? Working with environmental or climate data? The archive at CEDA, the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, specialises in Earth, atmospheric, and environmental datasets. If your data tracks the planet, give it a stable home. 🌍 archive.ceda.ac.uk #LoveData26 #KCL

Live, laugh, love! For Love Data Week, we are spotlighting a research project which maps the science of comedy. Dr Vanessa Pope and colleagues used a new computational method to analyse timing and structure in live stand-up comedy. Read more here: shorturl.at/HfHPB #LoveData26 #KCL

Where's the data? Is your sequencing data looking for a long-term partner? The European Nucleotide Archive ensures that genomic data stays findable, reusable, and interoperable. Match your sequences with the right archive. #LoveData26 www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/...

Very pleased to have the most viewed dataset (10,461 views) @kclopenresearch.bsky.social ! Molecular dynamics and metadynamics data supporting "Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of startle disease: The role of the Asn46Lys mutation in the glycine receptor" JCP 163, 125103 (2025).

How healthy is your relationship with your data? For #LoveData26, we’re highlighting red flags and green flags — common risks and good practices — to help make research data more findable, accessible, secure, and reusable. #KCL

Where's the Data? For #LoveData26, we're matchmaking fields with datasets! Working with MRI or neuroimaging data? OpenNeuro supports BIDS-formatted datasets. If your data maps the brain, this is where it belongs. 🧠💘 openneuro.org #KCL

Where is the data? For Love Data Week, we’re spotlighting KORDS — King’s Open Research Data System. From deposits by faculty, global views, and top-performing datasets, here’s what a year of data sharing at #KCL looks like. #LoveWeek26

It's day 2 of Love Data Week! 💕 Today’s blog post is by Dr Nick Owen from UCL's Advanced Research Computing Centre, about the vital role of Data Stewards supporting researchers to maximise centralised data storage infrastructure. Have a read now 👉 buff.ly/mSWZDco #ResearchData #UCL #LoveData26

Where's the Data? For #LoveData26, we're matchmaking research fields with datasets. Conducting social science or population research? Your data could find a home at ReShare, the UK Data Service's open repository — built for surveys and longitudinal studies. reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk #KCL

Data management is a core part of good research practice. To kick off Love Data Week, our data lifecycle shows data's journey through planning, collecting, organising, storing, preserving and sharing to support open research. #LoveData26 #KCL

Love Data Week (@lovedataweek.bsky.social) provides an opportunity to take stock of how you handle, manage, archive and share research data 📊 We have numerous resources to help you do it well, like the RDM 101 online tutorial (in the VLE) and our Research Data Management practical guide 👇

Are you going to be @uksg.bsky.social Annual Conference? To make it easier to plan your days we've curated session themes. I'm speaking for @countermetrics.bsky.social in the research infrastructure theme! Register at www.uksg.org/events/confe...

Next week is international Love Data Week! The theme for this year is 'Where's the Data?'. We're excited to share what we've prepared and to discuss all things data management. #KCL #LoveData26

Join @heroicendeavour.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social at this FREE @uksg.bsky.social webinar TOMORROW (Thurs. 5 Feb) 🔗 www.uksg.org/events/free-... #AI #Ethics #OpenAccess #Webinar

Now the #OpenJournalsCollective catalogue is live time to revisit @theblochian.bsky.social's @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article abt why it matters, why #TheFutureIsDiamond & how you can join our movement Read the blog & follow links to the #OJC website for more info blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

We are pleased to share the second edition of King’s Open Research Quarterly! Our spotlight features explore: • FAIR and CARE principles for data management • The impact of the UKRI Open Access policy for books and book chapters Read more & subscribe here: shorturl.at/DAQz9 (Kings ID required🔒)

Our next #OpenAccess training session for academic and professional staff takes place on Wednesday, 11 February, on Strand Campus. There are still places available! tinyurl.com/6femkfnx @kingsnmes.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social

See our most recent resource on how repositories can mitigate the impact of AI bots. Spoiler alert, there is no silver bullet if you want to keep your repository open!!! coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

You can't get good data without good methods! Love Methods Week highlights the importance of open and replicable methods through a series of online workshops. You can sign up here: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods... #Lovemethods26

Negotiations led by Jisc concluded last month with all five major academic publishers, enabling UK universities to read and publish #OpenAccess across 11,000+ journals. www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/lan...

Happy New Year everyone! We're looking forward to another year of making research as open and accessible as possible. We'll keep you posted on all of our work and the latest developments in the open access community. Here's to an open and productive 2026!

The next Open Research Week will take place from the 2-6 March next year. The week will include a series of free online talks and workshops to explore the current state of Open Research. You can find out more and sign up here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-researc... #KCL #OpenResearch #OpenAccess

We are very excited to be launching our newsletter for #OAWeek, the #Kings Open Research Quarterly! Our first issue covers Subscribe to Open, AI & Open Access licenses, key tools for researchers, and upcoming events. Read more & subscribe here: shorturl.at/DAQz9 (Kings ID required🔒)