We're wrapping up International Cat Week with Suzy. Suzy has published her article open access under one of our Read & Publish agreements. She can sit down now, relax, and watch those views and citations roll in! Thank you @patekb.bsky.social for sharing your studious and fluffy friends with us!

We continue our International Cat Day (Week) activities with Cleo. Cleo submitted her Data Management Plan to our colleagues for review, and knows that with their support, her funding application will be outstanding! She looks towards the future with confidence. Be like Cleo.

For International Cat Day on Saturday, we're celebrating the feline friends of @patekb.bsky.social, one of our Team Coordinators. Since passing her viva and submitting her PhD thesis to our team to make it openly available in the repository, Amber spends her days taking long, well deserved naps.

To continue our celebration of Disability Pride month, we want to highlight the support available at King's for disabled staff and students. This includes support around learning, mental health, funding, and adjustments. You can find out more here: www.kcl.ac.uk/student-life...

Disability Support & Inclusion | King's College London

The Disability Support & Inclusion Team offers information, advice and guidance to prospective and current disabled students.

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Happy Disability Pride Month! New research from Dr. Carla Finesilver (@finesilver.bsky.social) and Jonathan Berliner shows that neurodivergent students thrive when they are active partners in co-designing their classroom environments. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/881FI

Neurodivergent students learn best when active partners in shaping their learning environment | King's College London

Neurodivergent students learn best when they are active partners in shaping their learning environment, according to a new report by Dr Carla Finesilver and Jonathan Berliner from the School of Educat...

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This week is Alcohol Awareness Week. To commemorate this, we are highlighting the Read & Publish Agreements we have with journals focussing on substance use and addiction. These agreements help spread the important work of King's researchers working in these fields. You can find out more here:

Sunday the 5th of July is Research Appreciation Day! We want to thank all of our fantastic researchers who make King's College London a hub for innovation and development. You can browse our research for free at the King's Research Portal: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/

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We have recently launched our Research Data Management Clinic! This is a fortnightly space where King's researchers and doctoral students can bring any queries they have to discuss with the RDM team. Find out more here: shorturl.at/tqPWE (King's ID required 🔒)

For Refugee Week, we're highlighting the King's Sanctuary Programme. The Programme was established in 2015 and since then has supported over 100 refugees. You can find out more about it here: www.kcl.ac.uk/service/sanc...

For Diabetes Awareness Week, we are celebrating the pioneering diabetes research and treatment carried out at King's College Hospital. These archive photographs from Historic England offer a glimpse into life in the Diabetes Department and the people who shaped its history. sl1nk.com/pfbz2nw

A nurse pushing a trolley carrying meals for patients with diabetes from a kitchen at King's College Hospital (MED01/01/1055) Archive Item - Topical Press Agency Medical Collection | Historic England

A nurse pushing a trolley carrying meals for patients with diabetes from a kitchen at King's College Hospital

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The Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) will be hosting its symposium next week at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts. The event is free and will feature panels, talks, and workshops. You can find out more information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...

OIPA Symposium 2026

Following on from the success of the 2024 OIPA Symposium, this year's event will feature panels, lightning talks and workshops.

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📢 Join us at the OIPA Symposium! Attend in person or online to explore key pressures in higher education, hear lightning talks across open scholarship, and help shape the future of institutional publishing. Register free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo... #OpenAccess #OpenScholarship #OIPA2026

OIPA Symposium 2026

Following on from the success of the 2024 OIPA Symposium, this year's event will feature panels, lightning talks and workshops.

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@uolpress.bsky.social reflects on the recent Open Access Publishing in Practice session at the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival, featuring LSE Press Head of Publishing Philippa Grand and David Luke, editor of How Africa Trades and How Africa Eats. 🔗 uolpress.co.uk/2026/05/open...

Open Access Publishing in Practice – Author experiences and insights from the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival - University of London Press

On 23rd April 2026, we hosted an online panel discussion on ‘Open Access publishing in practice‘ as part of the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival. The event brought together authors and pub...

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Read out interview with Dr Anna Collins, the Open Research Manager for Research Data and Bibliometrics at King’s College London here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Our Q&A with Dr Anna Collins, the Open Research Manager for Research Data and Bibliometrics at King’s College London: Can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you into research…...

Our Q&A with Dr Anna Collins, the Open Research Manager for Research Data and Bibliometrics at King’s College London: Can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you into research data...

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🗣️"Open social science methods can be applied across all the major qualitative methods" #OpenSocialScience #OpenScience @lsepress.bsky.social @civica.bsky.social @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social @twm.bsky.social

Qualitative research can and should be more open and reproducible - LSE Impact

Qualitative research has lagged behind quantitative studies in open research practices. A new book shows how & why qualitative research can be more open.

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For Mental Health Awareness Week, we want to promote Mental Health Open. This is an open access, peer-review, and data journal focussed on advancing mental health knowledge. You can check it out here: mentalhealthopen.eu/index.php/mh...

There is still time to sign up for our next #OpenAccess training session for academic and professional staff. It takes place on Wednesday, 13 May, on Strand Campus. tinyurl.com/6femkfnx @kingsnmes.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social

We are pleased to share issue #3 of King’s Open Research Quarterly! In keeping with a colourful Spring theme, we are thinking about sustainability and how ’Green’ Open Access is, along with the colours of Openness. Subscribe here: shorturl.at/DAQz9 (Kings ID required🔒) #Kings #OpenResearch

For our latest team day, we visited the Temple of Mithras in London, shared Open resources on Ancient Rome, and enjoyed some delicious pistachio cake courtesy of our talented colleague Charlotte. It was a very fulfilling day and we've highlighted some of our resources below. #OpenAccess #Kings

Stress Awareness Month King's participates in 22 R&P agreements which allow eligible King's authors to publish Gold open access without paying APCs. These agreements remove cost barriers and reduce admin burden around OA publishing. You can find out more here:

Open Access and APC funding | Research support | King’s College London

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Happy World Book Day! 📚 For WBD, we're highlighting 'Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation', edited by Sara Marzagora (King's) & Francesca Orsini (SOAS). This is an Open Access book on oral traditions, storytelling & global literary circulation. Read: shorturl.at/45wVT

Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation

Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

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Happy Earth Day! To celebrate this year's Earth Day, we're highlighting the role of Open Access in supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We're proud to advocate for open access publishing for our researchers in line with these goals. Check out our thread below. 🧵

Stress Awareness Month This article explores the impact of emotionally challenging research and highlights the importance of institutional support, supervision, and wellbeing planning. Supporting researcher wellbeing is an essential part of research culture.

Coping with Emotionally Challenging Research: Developing a Strategic Approach to Researcher Wellbeing

While previous work has highlighted the possible impacts of undertaking emotionally challenging research, it is only recently, particularly within the UK with the 2028 Research Excellence Framework…

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The London Open Science & Scholarship Festival is taking place this week! A collaborative event led by UCL and London universities, exploring key issues in Open Science—from AI to careers. Find out more and sign up: shorturl.at/UhI2F

Stress Awareness Month Creating Pure records? If your research output is already published online, you can save time and reduce stress by importing records from CrossRef or Scopus instead of creating them from scratch. See our guide on how to import research outputs into Pure:

Stress Awareness Month One of the biggest sources of research stress is sorting out data at the end of a project. Planning early using a Data Management Plan (DMP) can make projects run more smoothly and reduce pressure later on. A useful tool for writing DMPs is DMPOnline:

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Data Management Plans that meet institutional funder requirements.

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Stress Awareness Month Research can be stressful: deadlines, publishing pressure, data management, and compliance. Over the next month we will be sharing information and tools to help support researchers manage these pressures and to raise awareness about stress within research culture. #Kings

For our Open Research Journal Club last week, we discussed a recent study by Swanson et al. (2026) on how LLMs can perform large-scale deanonymisation at speed and relatively low cost, using micro-data gathered from unstructured text. You can read the full paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800

Call for recommendations 🙏 At our next journal club, we're going to be discussing predatory and non-reputable practices in research publishing. We're looking for recommendations for articles or papers on this topic. If you know of any please let us know!