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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 6h

@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆

We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8

(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 1d

UCL Postgraduate Students 📢

There are still spaces available on this week's 'Copyright for Postgraduate Students' online session 👩‍💻

Thursday 9th October 11am - 12:20pm 📆

Have a look and book here 👉 buff.ly/Dn1ZOPP

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 2d

A huge congratulations to the winners of UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards 2025! 🎉🍾

Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy

UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 5d

Also, remember you can always get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have questions or want to find out more 💻

UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 5d

Are you interested in the practice of Citizen Science but unsure where to begin? 🤔

A good starting point might be the resources on our webpages which can support the planning, development, and delivery of Citizen Science projects 📒

👉 buff.ly/mkGTQ7Z

Citizen Science support and training

Discover tools, training, and guidance to help you plan and deliver impactful citizen science projects.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 6d

September brought a new academic year and new open access books from UCL Press! Explore museum studies, urban childhoods, Victorian collecting, and more - all free to read and download!

📚 Start reading: bit.ly/4nUCUcz

#OpenAccess #UCLPress #AcademicPublishing

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 7d

We're big fans of the UCL libraries 🫶

UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 9d

Get to know our libraries and find your way around them with a self-guided tour. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started/self-guided-library-tours

Students sat around the Flaxman Gallery.

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 8d

🎧 UCL Press Play is back this October with S2 of The Greatest Good!

Join world-leading academics as they explore topics like neurodiversity, climate justice, and more.

Be the first to hear about new episodes:
👉 t.co/WMCYqDjA7M #UCLPressPlay #Podcast #UCLPress

A close-up of headphones resting on a monitor stand, with a softly lit background.

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 9d

With only three weeks until Open Access Week 2025, we're getting excited ✨

Have a read of our latest blog post to find out how we'll be joining this year's conversation, including a webinar with UCL experts in Copyright, Rights Retention, Research Integrity and Citizen Science 💻

Looking Forward to Open Access Week 2025 | UCL Open@UCL Blog

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 13d

Or, you can contact [email protected] for a bespoke workshop 📒🖋️

UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 13d

Autumn is officially in the air, and so is copyright 🍂©️

Whatever way you are using text and images this term, UCL copyright team has a session to support you 💻

Take a look at the programme and register for a session 👉 buff.ly/o1y0g15

(Image AI-generated from Microsoft Copilot)

Several cards on a wooden surface, where the following are printed on each: 'using images', 'copyright and GenAI', 'including materials in dissertations', 'publishing contracts', 'social media and copyright', 'protecting your copyright', 'permissions', 'Creative Commons'.

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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 15d

UCL has been rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange for the fifth year in a row in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).

Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL

#KEF5

@uclenterprise.bsky.social

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 16d

The autumn equinox has arrived 🍂

For anyone embarking upon a UCL PhD in this new season, welcome to the community!

If you're wondering where to start with Open Science, check out this digestible and comprehensive guide: buff.ly/ya6CIQT

Why not save it somewhere to refer back to?

Open Science: a practical guide for PhD students

UK guide to Open Science for PhD students, based on the original French version produced by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research:…

rdr.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 20d

Also, watch this space for news about this year's award winners who are currently being selected, and the awards ceremony which will take place during International Open Access Week (20th - 24th October)🏆

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 20d

New blog post ✨

Our latest blog post has been contributed by Miguel Xochicale, Senior Research Engineer at UCL, who won an Open Science and Scholarship award in 2023.

Read on to find out about his project and how it has developed over the last two years 👇
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

Shaping Tomorrow’s Healthcare: Unlocking the Power of Open-Source AI and Robotics | UCL Open@UCL Blog

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 27d

Spotlighting UCL's bibliometrics support resources! 📊✨

With links to relevant courses and external resources, take a look at the webpages 👀
buff.ly/iBrUCLa

And why not book onto an upcoming training session 📝 buff.ly/gTi0tc6

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 29d

UCL staff and research students 🔊

Need to write a data management plan? Not sure what UCL’s expectations are when it comes to managing research data?🗒️

The Research Data Management team are here to help ✨

Online and in-person training sessions are now available to book: lnkd.in/eqZtihzB

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Sep 5

More green! Looks great 😊

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Sep 5

Find the RDR here: buff.ly/TOnaeu3

Read about the RDR and upload your research outputs here: buff.ly/8WH6Jaa

University College London research repository - Browse

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Sep 5

Another exciting milestone 📢

UCL Research Data Repository has reached over 1 million downloads 🎉

A fantastic achievement - huge congratulations to the staff and research students who have published and shared their research outputs. The repository team are very proud! 👏

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's new stationery and back to school month ✏️📒🍂

The perfect time to refresh yourselves with our training and support resources📝https://buff.ly/8XtyfIT

Have a browse, and if you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to get in touch!👩‍💻

Training and Support Resources for Research

Outside the central teams that support the 8 Pillars of Open Science & Scholarship, UCL has a huge research community and a diversity of teams both centrally and in the wider university that support…

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Aug 27

Exciting update in our latest blog post 📢 UCL Discovery has reached 60 million downloads! ✨🥳

Read more about the milestone here :

UCL Discovery reaches 60 million downloads! | UCL Open@UCL Blog

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Aug 26

The UCL Stores Service and Open Access Team plan to digitise a number of historic University of London theses from the 1930s and make them available in UCL Discovery ✨

To find out more, visit:

Open Access for Theses: how to deposit

Guidelines for UCL research degree candidates on how to deposit an electronic copy of their final thesis in UCL's Research Publications Service (RPS).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Aug 22

We're still going through the @britishlibrary.bsky.social July Scholarly Communications Newsletter over here - a treasure trove of news, resources and upcoming events ✨
Take a look 👀 us18.campaign-archive.com?u=03d177e620...

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Aug 21

The deadline for this is tomorrow - Friday 22 August at 5pm⌛
Which means there's still enough time to submit a nomination or application! 💨

UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔊 Calling UCL staff and students - nominations and applications for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards are still open ✨

🗓️ Deadline: 5pm Friday 22 August

Read more or start an application/nomination today 👉 buff.ly/7w7bNG3

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