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🔊

I am also unable to comment in Teams, for some reason (I refuse to install MS software on my Linux machine, so I am in the browser). Hopefully I can answer any questions verbally :) #openfest25

Personal news! I'm taking a career break, planning to write more and do some consultancy (first gig: work with @RoRInstitute ). Read all about it https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/some-personal-news And let me know if you've any good ideas for adventures

Talking this morning about experimentation in open access through experimental publishing and community-led initiatives for libraries like @openbookcollective.bsky.social. #OpenFest25

Day 1 of #OpenFest25 is a wrap! Thanks to @domismithson.bsky.social for so brilliantly chairing all of today's sessions 🥳

Powerful presentation from @lyndamk.bsky.social of @datarescueproject.org on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration www.datarescueproject.org #OpenFest25

@emmawilson.bsky.social on how challenges in finding+accessing research literature harms bibliographic diversity, ending with a key point: "proprietary [research information] systems don't work for us *as researchers*". How do you evaluate the lit. when you can't even read the abstracts? #OpenFest25

Starting now! #OpenFest25 let's go!

OpenFest 2025 begins tomorrow! To whet your appetites, here's a new podcast from our colleagues (and chief organisers!) at Hallam on this year's theme: Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (OR+EEDI)

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-...

RDM Weekly made it to double digits! 🎉 Week 10 includes: - The @turingway.bsky.social Handbook - Evaluating a Data Steward Pilot @openresshef.bsky.social - Intro to Parquet files in R @tladeras.bsky.social - #rstats packages for CONSORT diagrams and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

One week until OpenFest 2025! The festival is open to all, and the sessions this year are predominantly online - so we hope to see many of you there! This year's theme is Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Register at the link below: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

The Open Access Support Fund (OASF) supports collaborative projects and initiatives to promote the development and sustainable implementation of open access and open research practices @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14061/o...

The CaSDaR Hybrid Event Launch's Agenda is out! 🚀🚀 Still waiting to register? Don't wait any longer ▶️ www.eventbrite.com/e/careers-an...

I left the slides entirely to Kevin because he's the best in the biz. We're talking on Wednesday 3rd September at 1000 BST in a session alongside Hannah talking about @thoth-metadata.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org talking about care and the commons. Register here: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Do I know anyone working in the library school at Sheffield Uni?

If you're in Edinburgh, you'll be familiar with the post-fringe blues. What to do with all the free time?! Well - how about grabbing a cuppa and signing up to Sheffield's online OpenFest? sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries. Full programme and registration links below:

New preprint on researchers’ responses to a pilot data stewardship service at @sheffielduni.bsky.social Our mixed methods evaluation found value across a range of disciplines, enhancing data management practices & supporting integration of FAIR principles into research workflows.

New podcast episode has just dropped on Spotify! Listen to Dr Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee from Sheffield Hallam uncovering the power of open data👇 discussinghttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/shu-library-research-supp/episodes/Unlock-the-power-of-open-data-and-teach-open-research-e3663qq

🆕 #ResearchCultureUncovered episode! Host @nickshepp.bsky.social chats with @simonhettrick.bsky.social on the #HiddenREF & why ALL research outputs matter. 🎧

🔊 Our survey on Electronic Lab Notebooks/ Electronic Research Notebooks is still open! We want to hear how ELNs support your work and open research aims, and to find out what further support or resources might be valuable. Survey link below:

If you are a research team or organisation who has a bit of underspend before the end of July. Then consider investing some of it learning hands on skills and tools to communicate your research. Animations, podcasts, infographics, blogs, social media and more. www.andytattersall.com/contact

🔊 6 weeks to go until Sheffield #OpenFest2025 - join us for 4 days of online events, with an in-person celebration at Hallam to round off the week 🤓 Registration link below!

New Spotify episode on #openresearchculture How are we driving a cultural change? What are the skills and practices that inform transparency and accessibility? As a linguist by background, I look into HOW we communicate and interact with researchers👇 spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/a7JJh3iXSUb

Interesting outputs from a project involving colleagues at @openresshef.bsky.social @knowledgeexchange.bsky.social and @researchconsulting.bsky.social Research rationale published on @octopus-ac.bsky.social, with links to underlying problems: doi.org/10.57874/m15...

We’ve got a job going. You get to work with me and quite frankly I am an exceptionally hilarious* and brilliant** person to work with, honest. * Moderately funny on occasion ** Shouty about big publishers but in a knowledgable way