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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Jun 26

Discover how @jisc.bsky.social is driving down the costs of digital archival collections in the UK. digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/2...

Celebrating the power of collective participation to drive prices down - Digital collections

Amid increasingly tighter budgets across the UK educational sector, the digital archival group purchasing scheme offers a model that collectively benefits participating higher education institutions w...

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Jisc @jisc.bsky.social · Apr 8

We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Feb 26

Registration for DCDC25 is now live!

The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions.
See you in Durham in July.
dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/

DCDC25 - DCDC25

A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being achiev...

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Feb 26

Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education.

www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...

Award-nominated guide update aims to help FE and HE organisations with records management - Jisc

www.jisc.ac.uk

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h-j-dobson.bsky.social @h-j-dobson.bsky.social · Nov 19

www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/jis...

Jisc to take responsibility for HE sector copyright negotiations - Jisc

Universities UK (UUK) entrusts Jisc with oversight of the Copyright Negotiating and Advisory Committee (CNAC) to further enhance its sector-wide licensing activities.

www.jisc.ac.uk

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Dec 2

Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...

Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme - Jisc

Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.

www.jisc.ac.uk

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Nov 27

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing

Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

www.nature.com

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci | The Signal

Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalog...

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Matt @mattlibrarian.bsky.social · Nov 25

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · Nov 24

Love this message from FDR and the Office of War Information. “Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” #books #bookbanning #history #reading #ideas #fdr #booksareweapons

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · Oct 28

New Royal Historical Society report on ‘The value of history in UK higher education and society’. It ‘highlights a growing divergence between the popularity of history—as a subject of study and public interest—and the security of historians within UK higher education’ #skystorians

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Oct 21

Fabulous final keynote from Erik Boekesteijn #openengaged at the British Library

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Neil Grindley @neilgrindley.bsky.social · Oct 9

We're at the Jisc All Staff conference. 700 people in one room. #jisc. Talking about AI. Surprise surprise.

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Peter Findlay @pfin25.bsky.social · Oct 9

You should still be able to register for the Open Athens session tomorrow. One of the many Jisc cyber security services we provide to universities, colleges, and schools in the UK. www.jisc.ac.uk/cyber-security

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Oct 4

Only 10 days left to apply to the DCDC2025 conference call for papers: dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/call-...

Call for papers - DCDC25

Call for papers Choose Your Own Future: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Solutions As a community, the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference has addressed change in a myriad...

dcdcconference.co.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 27

History Day is back and celebrating its 10th year! Join us on 5 Nov 11:00 - 16:00 at Senate House to explore the library, museum, archive and special collections from around the UK. Sign up for #HistDay24 is now open … see you there! Discover more at: buff.ly/3zyvHLE

Poster showing details of History Day 2024 which will take place on 5th November 2024 11.00-16.00

Poster showing the details of History Day 2024 which will take place on the 5th November 2024.

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · Sep 26

For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about iPres 2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/i...

iPres 2024

Ghent - which I experienced virtually! Well it’s been a while since I was at iPres but this year I was really pleased to be back immersed in all that digipres goodness virtually joining in with many a...

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Sep 27

www.wired.com/story/intern...

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself

The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

www.wired.com

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · Sep 26

An important (and overdue) Govt comissioned report now available:

The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

#History 🗃️

The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal: independent research report (accessible)

www.gov.uk

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · Sep 18

Join us next Wed 25/9 at 17:30 either at the IHR Wolfson Room or online via Zoom as @brycchancarey.bsky.social of Northumbria University will kick off our Autumn seminar program with a paper on eighteenth century clerical naturalism. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/ratio...

The ‘rational study of God’s works’: Eighteenth-century clerical naturalists and the origins of the modern life sciences

www.history.ac.uk

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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · Sep 3

pro.europeana.eu/event/theory...

Theory, change and growth: the story of the Impact Playbook | Europeana PRO

This webinar, organised by the Europeana Impact Community, looked at the history and future of the Europeana Impact Playbook. Read our summary of the event…

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Aug 30

"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from."

AI in publishing going great then

www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 30

And here it is: the UKRI CEO role now readvertised. Very important for R&D, and hence for UK prosperity so let's hope for a really good field of candidates
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

UK Research and Innovation - Saxton Bampfylde - Global Executive Search & Leadership Consulting

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is at the forefront of driving the nation's research and innovation agenda, playing a pivotal role in the Government's

www.saxbam.com

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · Aug 28

Chunk of today preparing the launch of the forthcoming toolkit on #digitalpreservation and community-generated digital content. Launch due 7th November aka World Digital Preservation Day. Will interest folks at #ara2024

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · Aug 21

Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · Aug 22

As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!

Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS

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