Universities want new business models, not just discounts. As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741... Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Great initiative... First issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research: doi.org/10.36399/f74...

Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought: Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share If you use #qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all […]

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

Tenzing will also gently encourage best practices for Acknowledgments sections, by modeling them in its outputs. We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.

@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!

New resource by the ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group: the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model, a tool to assist institutions assess their practices & capacity to evaluate data contributions. View the maturity model: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

⚡We are recruiting🌟 We are looking for a fixed-term Digitisation Officer and a fixed-term Digital Engagement Officer (with possibility to extend) to work in our Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team! Find out more info here 👀👀➡️ tinyurl.com/4epkcfp2

The latest Opinion from #UKSGInsights journal: Andrew Johnson from the University of Sheffield Library - "Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector" dub.sh/55gEiGy

Everyone needs to take the Creative Commons Personality Quiz. #OAWeek I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x

This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25

It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself. We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)

New Open Research in Practice case study: The Feminist WonderLab Collective: An ECR space to support feminist practices and Open Scholarship by Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Research Associate @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Read about their work on our wiki 👇

To celebrate #OAWeek, book onto one of our training sessions! ✨21st Oct: OA for books & chapters ✨21st Oct: Demystifying open research I: authorship ✨23rd Oct: Bitesize OA webinar (REF&UKRI policies) ✨23rd Oct: Copyright misconceptions ✨23rd Oct: Demystifying open research II: publications Links 👇

📢 Sheffield researchers! The Research Software Engineering team is running its FAIR4RS training programme again this year: learn how to create better, FAIR-er software for your research. Find the full programme and register for the kick-off seminar on October 16th 👇 rse.shef.ac.uk/training/fai...

The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day #WDPD25 Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy! If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message! #digipres

Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

Come join the team at Dryad! We're seeking a Data Curator to assess data and metadata submissions and work with authors to meet FAIR data guidelines. Open to remote candidates in the UK. blog.datadryad.org/jobs/

The @n8cir.bsky.social is hosting a free 1-day workshop (23 October) on working with and managing sensitive research data - inc. speakers from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social and DARE UK. Data stewards from N8 institutions can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...

📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

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 👇

Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds: 🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT) leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...

Find out about ORCID, DOIs & open publications beyond the OA article in two bitesize sessions coming up for @sheffielduni.bsky.social researchers for #OAweek2025 ✨21st Oct - Demystifying open research I - authorship ✨23rd Oct - Demystifying open research II -publications Booking links below:

We've got some training for @sheffielduni.bsky.social researchers coming up for #OAweek2025! ✨21st October - Exploring open access for books & chapters ✨23rd October - Bitesize OA webinar (REF & UKRI policies) ✨23rd October - Copyright misconceptions Book via myDevelopment using links below -

Welcome to IASSIST Quarterly Vol. 49 No. 3! The four articles in this issue highlight a shared commitment to empowering diverse research communities through innovative approaches to data stewardship and support. ➡️ iassistdata.org/blog/2025/09...

🔊 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...

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👇

A big thank you to everyone for making our very first event such a smashing success! As the current landscape of Data Stewardship in the UK continues to evolve, we hope to be continue being a support system for the Data Stewards community. Until next time! 🚀

📢 Dryad & @openrxiv.bsky.social are excited to announce a new partnership & integration. Beginning today, authors posting #preprints to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will have the option to upload #opendata to Dryad at the same time. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA #preprint #openaccess #datasharing

The CaSDaR Hybrid Event launch is fast approaching! Have you registered 👉 t.ly/yqC93 Come meet our Project Partners: 🟣 ELIXIR-UK @elixiruknode.org 🟣 UK Reproducibility Network 🟣 Digital Curation Centre @digitalcuration.bsky.social 🟣 PSDI @psdi-uk.bsky.social

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."

🆕#ResearchCultureUncovered episode with @nickshepp.bsky.social explores open research across disciplines at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The @ukrepro.bsky.social Train the Trainer programme's open for applications: FREE training for researchers, PIs & professional services staff.

New OA Book by Lever Press one of the publishers that @sheffielduni.bsky.social Library supports via its Open Scholarship Fund 🔓📘

For those of you unable to join us last week for #OpenFest25, all the session recordings are now available to watch online: libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

Last but not least of our key ingredients that add to our EEDI focused open research approach driven by #Openfest25 Thank you to all co-organizers, speaker and participants - its been a pleasure! All recordings of the online sessions will be released next week. Stay tuned!

Just about to start our 3rd day of #OpenFest25 The recipe for an #EEDI open research approach is still in the making, more ingredients from yesterday pictured below👇

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

And you can find more information about the @researchdataall.bsky.social Data Stewards Career Tracks Working Group, co-chaired by Elizabeth Newbold, here: www.rd-alliance.org/groups/data-...

You can find my presentation, 'Recognising the contributions of Research Technical Professionals at the University of Sheffield', here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

You can find Esther Plomp's presentation, 'Why CRediT' is not enough', here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25

Always a pleasure to hear @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org articulate their vision of open access publishing - also thanks to Hannah Hillen from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & @reddite.bsky.social for being an excellent chair

And funders' and regulators usually don't care about process!

Publishing has to be something the scholarly community is doing (in community with librarians and publishing professionals), rather than something that is done to scholars' work.

The main thing I'm taking from this talk in #OpenFest25 with @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org and Hannah Hillan is that if we want an open access movement that is equitable and diverse, the process of publishing matters at least as much as whether or not outputs are open

Thanks to @reddite.bsky.social for chairing our first panel of #OpenFest25 Day 2 - see you all again at 2pm for our panel on inclusive approaches to recognising contributions to research, with Esther Plomb & @themauvedesert.bsky.social on CRediT, +Elizabeth Newbold from @ukri.org on data stewards

We are now running our second day of #OpenFest25 Our key ingredients of the EEDI open research approach from the first day pictured below @reddite.bsky.social chairing sessions today🔊