We're proud to support #TheLibrarians - a gripping story of ordinary people on the frontlines, risking everything to uphold fundamental rights. With freedom to read under attack, the heroes are... everyday librarians. @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social UK cinemas from 26 Sept: www.thelibrarians.film

Terrible news from Belgium, where a Trumpian-style Flemish government want to close the Institute for Development Policy @uantwerpen.be. Please support and share!

Welcome everyone to a new academic year! To celebrate we decided to write a blog post introducing copyright law and highlighting the bits we considered most relevant. Why not head over to our blog and have a read: blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/09/... #AcademicSky #Copyright #BlogPost

My article "Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire", co-authored with best writing mates Phil Martin (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) and Jeremy Speight (@uafairbanks.bsky.social) is finally out Open Access with #SecurityStudies! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/6

More lawsuits against AI companies from film industry giants. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #AI #Lawsuits #Copyright #Infringement

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Students thoughts on using AI in HE. Have a read, very good points. [Research done in Australia] theconversation.com/uni-students... #AI #HigherEducation

‘They said I should be purged and killed’: The librarians who stood up for free speech

"Heute geht mirs recht übel und es ist mir alles in den Weeg gekommen dass ich Ihnen nicht die Continuation meines mikroscopisch metaphisisch politischen Diarii durch diese Ochsenpost überschicken kann." #Goethe an Charlotte von Stein  am 18.9.1780. Der Brief kam mit  Ochsen in Kochberg an.

Have you ever wondered how to apply a CC licence to your YouTube video? Fret no more. Have a look at The University of Edinburgh's instructions on how to do so. PDF also available: open.ed.ac.uk/how-to-guide... #YouTube #CClicence

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Great resources to help create responsible AI policies and practices. Why not have a look: www.artscouncil.org.uk/lets-create/... #AI #Toolkit #ResponsibleAI

Don't believe big tech when they say they cannot be open-source or transparent. Meet Apertus, Latin for "open" - www.swiss-ai.org/apertus #AI #Apertus #OpenSource

🤖 AI in Academia – Gamechanger or Risk? How often do you use tools like #ChatGPT, Perplexity, Highspace, or ResearchRabbit in your work? #AI can speed up data analysis, boost literature search, and spark new ideas, but it also comes with risks like hallucinations, stereotypes, and unreliable data.

Our new copyright reads are ready for your perusal! Have a look! blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/09/... #AcademicSky #Copyright

NEW PAPER. A toolkit to help with systematic reviews. Thx to my co-authors Natalie Pearson & Nathan Rush. To Lara Skelly & @lboroor.bsky.social for setting it all up in the @lborouniversity.bsky.social #repository. Thx @Trello & @notion.com for existing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“The NIH has been pushing for more openness in the ecosystem into which it pours nearly $48B annually.” So Springer + Elsevier, being the bad actors they are, are now mandating and ⬆️ their open access fees (svrl thousand $!). “They’re responsible to shareholders, and not to the research community.”

Looking for accurate, truthful information about various aspects of the history of the Holocaust? We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions. Subscribe now: buff.ly/IH0i9uf

Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

Featuring our very own @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @alittleroad.bsky.social ⭐

📚 From our book series with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social THE SEA COMMANDS: Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village ⌲ By Paulo Mendes “A work with a remarkable mastery of writing, exemplar of a very fine and consistent ethnography” berghahnbooks.com/title/Mendes...

"After a woman unearthed a dark family history while cleaning her attic, she took steps to make things right – highlighting systemic problems with Austria’s Holocaust restitution policies" Read about our latest exhibition, on display until 10 October, via @timesofisrael.com 📰

We've published a new blog post outlining the free training sessions we have on our website. If you're a researcher in the #humanities interested in #publishing and #OpenAccess, there may be something useful for you in there! 👇 uolpress.co.uk/2025/08/navi...

📚 Fast 276 Jahre alt und immer noch ein Star? In der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur ist Goethe als literarische Figur populärer denn je – ob in Krimis oder Romanzen. Was dahinter steckt, jetzt in unserem Magazin klassisch modern lesen 👉 magazin.klassik-stiftung.de/de/faszinati...

Many UK universities likely to walk away from journal agreements after publishers put forward proposals with “year-on-year price rises” rather than cheaper deals demanded by national negotiators, @davidprosser.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/busines...

Cutting-edge analysis of a Neolithic cow tooth dating back to the construction of Stonehenge provides evidence of Welsh origins. This is the first time that scientists have seen evidence linking cattle remains from Stonehenge to Wales. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/scienti...

Some info about the other sessions in this exciting EEDI-focused programme: All events online and open to all #openfest25 #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #EquityEqualityDiversity

A new economic valuation report has, for the first time, brought into focus the scale of the National Geological Repository's impact on the UK economy. The facility has saved major energy and infrastructure projects £1.5 billion over the last 20 years. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

FREE UKSG webinar: Usage metrics for OA, AI, and more: building on solid foundations” 26 September 2025 dub.sh/6mgp86s

The Sea Changes programme looks fantastic! Unfortunately we can’t be there this year, but keep an eye out for a special MUP conference discount coming soon 👀📚

We have a new blog post looking at the intricate relationship of art and copyright. Have a read here: blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/08/... #Art #CopyrightSky #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

Excellent piece about #copyright of photographs of celebrated works of art. 🏛️ "An even more troubling moral issue that naturally calls into question the whole point of a museum in the first place." 🗃️ #arthistory #museums #Academicsky #photography ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/a-question...

An amazing story.

A new national guide to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland is launching soon. Webinar on Sep 4, 12–1.30PM IST. Great to see @norfireland.bsky.social leading on this. #OpenScience #OpenResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchMatters #Ireland

The transition to fully open access: a new era for the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing | Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10877-025-01342-7

Thrilled to announce the launch of six inaugural papers in the new, peer-reviewed, community-owned, and fully diamond open-access journal Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR), published by the Open Library of Humanities:

Opinion: University over-expansion has led to the farce of pretend graduate jobs, writes Paul Wiltshire #academicsky #edusky

A reflection on my 10 (ish) years at Loughborough - new blog post from Gareth Cole. blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/08/... #OpenResearch #OpenData #Research #ResearchRepositories #FutureofResearch @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lborolibrary.bsky.social

We updated our copyright webpages. Why not have a look? www.lboro.ac.uk/services/lib... #CopyrightSky #Webpages

We asked Jane Austen expert @devoney.bsky.social about her favourite Austen novel, adaptation, and what fun facts she discovered whilst researching her new book 'Wild for Austen', out next month. Read the Q&A on our blog here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08... #JaneAusten #booksky

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

🧵(1) Exciting news regarding the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project, which photographed more than 9,000 manuscripts in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1994 and is the largest repository for scholarly access to texts in Geʻez. hmml.org/collections/...

“Usually, it is best to cite works after they have undergone peer review and been formally published. … However, you may cite an unpublished work for a variety of reasons, including referring to emerging research.” 🔗 apastyle.apa.org/blog/cite-un...

Thanks to the editors' wonderful work, the book is out #OpenAccess My closing chapter is about: How to do science as a woman and laugh! Here is the link to the book www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... @ceudeminst.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social @proac.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

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

When AI is used for good: www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat... #Indigenous #AI #Culture #Preservation

Disney and Lucasfilm have turned copyright into a galactic superpower. But what does that mean for fans and creators? 📝 New blog: The IP Strikes Back 🔗 blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/08/... #Copyright #StarWars #IPStrikesBack #PopCultureLaw

#OpenAccess! SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE ARAB WORLD: The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline, edited by Abdullah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti has now published. Find out more here: bit.ly/4eSMLw4 #Anthropology #Sociology

"It's an incredible story - the document had been part of a dusty box of papers in a UK saleroom... But on closer examination the vendor came across a piece of World War Two history detailing the freeing of the only Nazi-occupied area of the British Isles." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...