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

🎬 Today’s the Day! – Screening the Fleet Join us this evening for drinks, nibbles, and good conversation as we celebrate Screening the Fleet. Don’t miss out!

Our WRUP Exec Manager Kate is at #ALPSP2025, attending @alittleroad.bsky.social session on how scholarly societies & university presses can publish OA books sustainably & equitably—covering the transition to OA, academic engagement, & building fair, lasting models. #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing

🚨 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...

⚓️ 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

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

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

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.

🌟 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. 🚀📚💡

Open minds: exploring Open Educational Resources at York and beyond (Thu 10 July, online) 💭 🔓 Presenting work undertaken in the field of OER creation and reuse at @york.ac.uk, with guest speakers from @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Went to see the two Pats today 😄. They were friends with Madeleine Blaess & starred in the film we made about the diary I translated. Pat Marshall & Pat Roddis are true stars 🌟🌟 ❤️ @wrunipress.bsky.social

Navigating the complex landscape of portability for REF 2029 2029.ref.ac.uk/resources/na...

🎉 Today would have been Madeleine Blaess’s 106th birthday. We’re marking the occasion by celebrating her legacy and the extraordinary work of @wmichallat.bsky.social, author of 320 Rue St Jacques: The Diary of Madeleine Blaess 📖 👉 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/books/m/10.2...

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.

Whether you're looking for new digital tools, content platforms, or strategic partners, you can now book in 1-2-1 time directly with leading providers across the knowledge and information landscape. #CILIPConf2025 cilipconference.org.uk

*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

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...

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

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

All research- and research-enabling staff should receive credit for their contributions to research. Check out our new guidance for TUoS colleagues on how to use the CRediT taxonomy to make sure this happens:

🔊University of Sheffield colleagues, do you have an editorial role for a journal or other publication? Are you considering taking on an editorial role, or curious about what it involves? Our new Editors & Publishers Network provides networking opportunities & support - find more information here:

Researcher Development Programme: Managing sensitive research data (Tue 13 May, 10-11.30am, online) This awareness-raising session outlines key principles from planning for the management of sensitive data, to storing, collecting, archiving, sharing and protecting them

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

The latest from #UKSGInsights: "Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors" from Teresa Schultz, Rachel Borchardt, Dede Dawson dub.sh/S18tjDf

Last chance to register! Book your ticket to attend our free event celebrating the publication of Dr Andrea White’s ‘Understanding Mental Causation’. #openeducation #academicevent @wrunipress.bsky.social

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

The latest White Rose Libraries Quarterly is now online-featuring updates from White Rose University Press. Dive into the latest in open access publishing, new titles, and statistics at WRUP - plus news from WRL Repositories and Innovation & Collaboration. whiteroselibraries.org/strategic-pl...

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

Those working on or interested in open research, you have until 30th May to submit a proposal for this year's OpenFest, organised by the Sheffield universities. Our theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity in all the meanings of those terms - see the Call for Proposals for ideas.

Coming up next week - Open Research Conversation on Early Career Researchers & Open Research:

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

🆓 free browser extension that helps you access library-subscribed resources. It also searches for #OpenAccess 🔓content and redirects you to freely available sources when you hit a paywall💰 ⬇️Download the extension here⬇️ download.leanlibrary.com/leanlibraryo...

The White Rose Research Online upgrade is now complete! Part of our Repositories Renewal Project, the latest upgrade sees WRRO moving to the latest release of the EPrints platform. Head to our News page to find out more: whiteroselibraries.org/2025/04/15/r...

🎉 Today we’re celebrating the 6th anniversary of Star Carr -our very first publication! This work continues to have a profound impact, with over 45,000 downloads across both volumes. Access Star Carr Volumes 1 & 2 for free: 🔗 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/ #OpenAccess #StarCarr #Archaeology

I've been talking a lot about how practitioners in Schol Comms (libraries, publishers, infrastructure etc.) don't have much support when it comes to doing research & publishing. I'm toying with ideas to help, but want to know what's useful. Sounds interesting? -> forms.office.com/e/TLGN5ME069

Open access book infrastructure providers @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social have published their joint 2024 Highlights report, detailing some great activities and achievements from the past year 🔓 📚

If you missed the recent Open Lunch with @wrunipress.bsky.social and @openresleeds.bsky.social, you can now access the recording online! Check it out to find out more about the Leeds Early Career Publishing Prize - open to doctoral graduates from the University of Leeds #OpenAccess #Academicsky

It’s conference week for me this week - now at #REDUX2025 hosted by OUP. Great to see @oipassoc.bsky.social Chair, Kate Petherbridge, talking about the work of @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social UP and OIPA (Open Institutional Publishing Association) in this morning’s plenary 👏

Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.

Press Manager Kate Petherbridge is discussing Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges. She highlights key opportunities: university presses, embedded in institutional culture, can move beyond just ‘solving the problem of OA’—instead, OA is an opportunity to embrace.

Opening Keynote at ALPSP Redux 2025: Chris Leonard, Director of Strategy & Innovation at Cactus Communication, will explore AI in Academic Publishing: A New Chapter for University Presses.