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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · 7h

#OpenEngaged in the #OAWeek is fast approaching! Book your place if you haven’t done it already. 🥁

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.

This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.

Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...

A collage of images including a person with headphones on working at a desk, a person weaving straw together and someone in a lab holding a bottle. A open padlock graphic is laid over each image and text reads Open and Engaged 2025. Who owns our knowledge? Monday 20th, Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd October, online conference..

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Creative Commons Türkiye @creativecommons-tr.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Creative Commons ve #TAROCH Koalisyonu, #kamumalı kültürel mirasa adil erişim için küresel bir eylem çağrısı olan Açık Miras Bildirisi'ni yayınladı.
📌 14 Ekim’de yapılacak lansman webinarına kayıt olmayı unutmayın!
creativecommons.org.tr/acik-miras-b...

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · 5d

#OpenScience Statement from UN's Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board. "this Scientific Advisory Board calls for urgent cooperation to advance science as a global public good – and we stress that doing so requires accelerated transformation to open science." www.un.org/scientific-a...

Open Science | Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board

Open science — the practices of widely sharing all forms of scientific knowledge — offers crucial benefits to the vitality of research, to connecting science to policy-makers and society, and to…

www.un.org

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks @casdarnetwork.bsky.social for the shout-out. #OpenEngaged programme is coming together really nicely. Check out the latest in the programme, meet the speakers and don't forget to sign up for each day seperately! #OAWeek

CaSDaR @casdarnetwork.bsky.social · 15d

This year’s Open and Engaged Conference aligns with the Open Access Week 2025 theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, by exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.

Register here: openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Join us online for this year’s #OpenEngaged Conference during the #OAWeek!
🗣️ We have fantastic speakers lined up and a programme packed with great topics.
✍️ Check out the programme and don't forget to register for each day seperately. openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 28d

We’re counting down to the launch of the #OpenHeritageStatement from the CC-led TAROCH Coalition with a 3-part blog series.

Part 1 of the series, published today, explores the barriers that stand in the way of open access to digital cultural heritage: creativecommons.org/2025/09/10/u...

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Twitter is dead.....scientifically speaking.

www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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National Open Research Forum (Ireland) @norfireland.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Register for the Navigating Open Research launch webinar - a new national guide to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland.

📅 Sep 4 at 12–1.30PM (IST)

The webinar will introduce the guide, share insights and use cases.
Register here👉 norf.ie/launch-navig...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #ECR

Launch – Navigating Open Research: A guide for Early Career Researchers | National Open Research Forum

norf.ie

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

A Question of Ownership

What the divergent attitudes towards open access reveal about the museum world

ideasroadshow.substack.com

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Open Science Fair @osfair.bsky.social · Jul 31

Summer plans in full swing? Don’t sweat it, registration for #OSFair2025 is extended until 31 August!

-Register now: www.opensciencefair.eu/registration...

-Plan your experience: www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/programme

#OpenAIRE #CERN

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 29

🥁July issue of the BL's Scholarly Communication Newsletter is out!
📚Read it here us18.campaign-archive.com?u=03d177e620...
#ScholComm #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM #OpenScholarship #DigitalScholarship #DataScience

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jul 23

NEW from @oapenbooks.bsky.social #OABooks toolkit 🛠️

▶️ Experimental book publishing
▶️ What experimental publishing does
▶️ Collaborative scholarship
▶️ Equitable interaction
▶️ Critique of legacy systems
▶️ New models, practices, and imaginaries
▶️ How to get started

🔗 buff.ly/rlbqGUG

OA Books Toolkit

What experimental publishing does

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 23

The beta version of the Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure (TSOSI) platform has been launched https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/the-beta-version-of-the-transparency-to-sustain-open-science-infrastructure-tsosi-platform-has-been-launched/

The beta version of the Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure (TSOSI) platform has been launched

Ouvrir la Science

www.ouvrirlascience.fr

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

Webinar from #DIAMAS - Aug 27, 2025 10:00 BST. From platform to practice: Using the EDCH (European Diamond Capacity Hub) Training Platform to build national and institutional capacity. #DiomandOA zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Check out the training platform at training.diamas.org

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

AI chatbot at London Museum - new conversational search agent. #CulturalHeritage www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/introdu...

Introducing our conversational search agent

Meet Clio 1.0, London Museum’s new conversational search agent – an experiment to help audiences explore our collections intuitively, using natural language.

www.londonmuseum.org.uk

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

Recommended Licenses and Tools for #CulturalHeritage Content creativecommons.org/2025/07/09/r...

Havsstrand by Maurice Denis. Public Domain. Swedish National Museum Many people can benefit from open access to cultural heritage in a variety of ways and for a variety of purposes — from creators…

creativecommons.org

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 21

Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) 10 Year Anniversary (Online) Conference: A Decade of Open Humanities Data. Friday 26 September 2025. #DigitalHumanities #OpenData openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/announcements

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 21

‘There is no political power without power over the archive’. Richard Ovenden. "that society would benefit from its citizens having access to a free library – but ensure that all people can read freely." observer.co.uk/news/interna...

‘There is no political power without power over the archive’

Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, ...

observer.co.uk

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 21

ASAPbio and Creative Commons announced #Preprint Policy Framework for Research Funders and Research Performing Organizations. asapbio.org/announcing-t...

Announcing The Preprint Policy Framework For Research Funders And Research Performing Organizations – ASAPbio

ASAPbio and Creative Commons are pleased to announce the launch of the Preprint Policy Framework for research funders and research performing organizations.

asapbio.org

Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 21

The #DataScience and #DigitalScholarship Fellowship Program (DS2F): A Library-Based Model for Addressing Curricular Gaps in Data-Intensive Training and Digital Pedagogy #DigitialSkills crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · Jul 10

Authorship in the Era of AI – Write-up from the panel discussion at the 2025 #OpenScience and Scholarship Festival @uclopenscience.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

Authorship in the Era of AI – Panel Discussion | UCL Open@UCL Blog

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Jul 7

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.

2-5 September - all welcome!

This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

Read the programme & register here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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OpenAIRE @openaire.bsky.social · Jun 13

Coming July 8: The @coar-repositories.bsky.social International Repository Directory (IRD) officially launches!

Click the link below and register for the launch webinars:

-COAR IRD #1 🕛 12h CEST (Asia/Africa/Europe)
-COAR IRD #2 🕕 18h CEST (Americas/Europe/Africa)

Register: shorturl.at/UBY2D

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · Jun 4

To support institutional leaders in navigating the complex dynamics of today’s scholarly communication system, EUA’s forthcoming briefing describes the current status of academic publishing.
Join the webinar launch of our new briefing buff.ly/N6acvEn
📆 5 June, 15.00 CEST
#OpenScience #AcademicSky

Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system

EUA - European University Association

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Rob Johnson @rschrobuk.bsky.social · Jun 2

The open access transition + AI disruption are reshaping publishing faster than learned societies can adapt.
Consortia, infrastructure, partnerships - societies must work together or risk losing their voice in research.
Full analysis: lnkd.in/e_MfxkaY
#ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchPolicy

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