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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...
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...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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...
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...
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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
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
For Equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing | Pour un édition scientifique équitable et pérenne [Checklist]
This bilingual checklist presents 13 concrete actions researchers can take to move toward a more equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem.Each action is classified by career stage (all...
zenodo.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
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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.
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
"Journal style does not allow 3-dimensional figures. Please rework Figure 5 into a figure with only 2 axes if possible"
a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting in an airplane .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting in an airplane .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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.
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
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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 […]
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 […]
Original post on mastodon.online
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November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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 […]
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 […]
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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
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
Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
The N8 Research Partnership launched its Rights Retention statement in January 2023. Now nearly three years later and with the sector in the midst of a financial crisis, the...
leeds.libcal.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
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
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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.
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.
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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.
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.
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@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)!
tenzing Documenting contributorship with CRediT
tenzing.club
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
@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)!
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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...
View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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⚡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
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
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
⚡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
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
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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
October 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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
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Everyone needs to take the Creative Commons Personality Quiz. #OAWeek
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
CCpersonalityQuiz
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October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Everyone needs to take the Creative Commons Personality Quiz. #OAWeek
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
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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
October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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
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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)
We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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)
We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
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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 👇
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 👇
York Wiki Service
uoy.atlassian.net
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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 👇
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 👇
✨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 👇
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 -
✨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 -
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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 👇
✨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...
FAIR² for research software
rse.shef.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📢 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...
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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
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
a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .
ALT: a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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...
Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector | Insights
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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...
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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/
blog.datadryad.org/jobs/
Jobs & opportunities | Dryad news
Dryad is a non-profit, mission-driven organization that envisions a world where all research data is openly available and fully re-used. Our multidisciplinary, fully curated open data publishing platf...
blog.datadryad.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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/
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...
Working with and Managing Sensitive Research Data
This FREE one-day workshop will focus on the challenges and complexities of working with sensitive data.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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 👇
🔊 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...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇
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🧵 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...
Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress
The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🧵 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...
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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...
🌎 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...
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
leeds.libcal.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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 👇
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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...
🌎 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...
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
leeds.libcal.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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...
🌎 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...