LJMU Open Research Team
@ljmuresearch.bsky.social
Open research advocates at LJMU library providing information and advice to researchers at Liverpool John Moores University.
We’re now on Day 2 of #OpenFest26! Explore how life drawing can make research data visible, human and interpretable with Amie Longthorne @ljmuresearch.bsky.social libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... #OpenFest #DrawingData
Tom is also an award-winning pumpkin carver-and he amazingly represented his PhD in a pumpkin last year. Our team is still in awe.
Tom Hyatt@tomhyatt.co.uk · 2w agoOver the last six years, I’ve been doing a PhD at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social at the interface between art and science, researching ‘Electromagnetic Art’: What is it? How might we make it? Why would we want to?
Saw this post and was reminded that there's currently an exhibition all about May Morris at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/lady...
May Morris: Crafting a Legacy
"I’m a remarkable woman – always was, though none of you seemed to think so."May Morris
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2w ago'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt
You Said, We Did! LJMU researchers said they wanted a list of journals covered by our agreement-here one is! To read more about our Open Journal Checker tool, check out this blog post with details on where to go/how to search: ljmuresearchsupport.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/y...
You Said, We Did – Introducing Open Journal Checker
Our Researchers wanted a list of journals covered by LJMU’s Institutional Open Access Agreements. You can now search ALL these journals in one place. •&nb…
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This list of Diamond Open Access monograph options from @kirahopkins.bsky.social is fantastic. I appreciate being able to share it with authors with ease/simplicity & show people OA options. Where you publish is a choice-this helps me expand those choices! Thank you! zenodo.org/records/2212...
Where can I publish a book open access without (necessarily) paying a fee? A list of Diamond open access options
Many publishers utilise various business models that enable them to publish some (or all) of their books open access without charging authors a fee, often called a Book Processing Charge (BPC). Wh...
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Hooray for open journals and @ojcollective.bsky.social Congrats!
Professor Caroline Edwards@theblochian.bsky.social · 3w agoMAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess
Why not give your library a Think. Check. Submit. boost? Find all our promotional resources here: bit.ly/4zmkkQW/ • Posters • Postcards • Stickers • Social media banners
Partially funded by LJMU Library 💪! We love seeing open access books from our colleagues being welcomed to the world, in particular from our fantastic friends up the road @livunipress.bsky.social . Congrats, @helentookey.bsky.social
Joe Moran@joemoransblog.bsky.social · last mo.This book by my colleague Helen Tookey will be great. And the online version is free to read!
Hoping for clear skies later so we can add a new #SolarEclipse photo to our collection. Like this one that Tom Kent took 114 years ago of a solar eclipse over Kirkwall #Orkney in April 1912. Taken 2 days after the sinking of the Titanic. Archives are amazing. ❤️
Dr Pownall took part in our Open Research Week in 2024 and I STILL remember so many things that she discussed. Looking forward to her keynote next month! For anyone interested in that talk from a couple of years back, you can listen here: opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18...
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Domi Smithson@domismithson.bsky.social · 2mo agoOpen Research in Sheffield: People and Place: Join us for #OpenFest26 and hear keynote speaker Dr Madeleine Pownall from @universityofleeds.bsky.social present "Who Built Open Research? Reclaiming the Intellectual Lineage of Openness." Explore our full programme: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...
What does an OLH Open Access Award make possible? Read Amie Longthorne's latest OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, reflecting on Data as a Story, the exhibition supported by the award.
Data as a Story Exhibition
Data as a Story Exhibition The OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, authored by Amie Longthorne, Open Data Management Specialist, Liverpool John Moores University The idea and getting started …
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One of my favourite parts of my cycling commute to campus is the birdsong of south Liverpool.
UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 2mo agoTake a moment to pause and listen. Research shows birdsong can boost your mood, help you cope with stress and improve your focus. In our latest film with BBC Ideas, discover why nature's soundtrack is so good for our wellbeing. Watch here: www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cx25g...
Hip, hip hooray!
Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 3mo agoEThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Saw this and thought of you, @luciejones83.bsky.social
Internet Archive@archive.org · 3mo ago🧵 Family cookbooks contain more than recipes. They preserve history. 📖 On the #FutureKnowledge #podcast special #VanishingCulture series, Katie Livingston explains why everyday artifacts matter. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...
One of my favourite demos to show researchers in @doaj.bsky.social is filtering by language. If I'm taking you in there, I'm also showing you how you can find a place to publish in Vietnamese, in French, in Arabic, in.....I love it!
LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago👀ICYMI | "75% of all APC-based journals in DOAJ are English-only as opposed to 33% of Diamond" #OA #DiamondOA #AcademicSky @jpolonen.bsky.social @johanrooryck.bsky.social
The Hidden REF Competition is now live! The competition is your opportunity to highlight your hidden contributions to research. All the information you need to put together your submission can be found at: hidden-ref.org/hidden-ref-c... 🗓️ The deadline for submissions is 13 September
Hidden REF Competition 2026 - The Hidden REF
Celebrating all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation The Hidden REF Competition The Hidden REF Competition celebrates all research outputs and everyone involved in […]
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Really enjoyed listening to this-nice dip into something I thought I knew a little bit about, then realised I really didn't! Interesting, informative, and accessible.
James Crossland@jamescrossland.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis week on HISTORY'S DEVILS, I talked to Antonia Senior about Kim Philby of the Cambridge Five - not just a traitor who spied for Stalin, but also a sociopathic murderer. Full episode, here ⬇️ 🎙 #spies #history #coldwar podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Chuffed to bits to publish this, after many discussions with its fantastic editors-who grabbed the advice from @cathdishman.bsky.social that 'anything was possible' & ran with it. Beautiful cover by Kiera Morris & wonderful, creative stuff inside. A testament to what's possible when you're open!
Open Institutional Publishing Association@oipassoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoLJMU Open Journals Service have just published their first Zine! It has come out of a monthly #Ethnography club meeting, and describes itself as a guerrilla-style Zine, 'publishing the unpublishable': openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/EiD @ljmuresearch.bsky.social #OpenAccess #Publishing #Zines #Journals
LJMU Open Journals Service have just published their first Zine! It has come out of a monthly #Ethnography club meeting, and describes itself as a guerrilla-style Zine, 'publishing the unpublishable': openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/EiD @ljmuresearch.bsky.social #OpenAccess #Publishing #Zines #Journals
Ethnography is Dead
The zine explores ethnographic and qualitative research as creative, critical, and reflexive practices.
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Multiverse! Cortex! Biomarkers! 🧠🔬 All this and more in our recent paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ccandl.bsky.social @kmueller123.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmu-ris.bsky.social Also, the code: osf.io/k8amh
A Multiverse Analysis of the Logical Memory Test and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) detection with blood-based biomarkers promises to revolutionise dementia diagnosis. However, blood testing is still a challen…
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Tomorrow 14:00 to 15:30 GMT+1 join us online for the #OpenResearch for Business Researchers webinar. For further information and to register visit: www.ukrn.org/event/ukrn-w...
UKRN webinar - Open Research for Business Researchers
UKRN webinar - Open Research for Business Researchers
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UK Reproducibility Network@ukrepro.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe’re hosting an upcoming webinar on Open Research for Business Researchers. If you’re interested in the future of business research and research impact, join us for what promises to be an insightful discussion. Find out more and register here: lnkd.in/efWRxMTM lnkd.in/eDaxhQN2
Qué bien!
@thinkchecksub.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur Think. Check. Submit. slides are now available in Spanish! The deck covers: ✔️ The problem of predatory publishing ✔️ An introduction to Think. Check. Submit. ✔️ Free resources to help researchers publish with confidence Many thanks to Jackeline Alger for the translation. bit.ly/4xkwOYw
Very exciting to see Senior Lecturer in American History Malcolm Craig's history-based role-playing games out in the wild. Watch out for a special launch event when the new academic year starts in September! FYI @ljmuimpact.bsky.social, @ljmuresearch.bsky.social, and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
Malcolm Craig@malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 4mo agoI have not run a game at a convention for many, many years. But this weekend I'm hosting a game of Hot War 2nd edition at the Rolling in the Ruins mini-con organised by @breakfastruins.bsky.social. I am both nervous and excited.
A week today! Our 'Overview of Books Publishing' free training session provides a comprehensive overview of the process of getting an academic book published, incl choosing a publisher, preparing a proposal, book contracts & the writing & production process. Sign up: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Overview of Books Publishing
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Super cool video about our @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Heritage Lottery funded project with the Unity Theatre! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAM... The exhibition runs until the end of this month and you can learn more about the project here: ljmuarchives.blog/2025/10/14/i...
'A Radical Re-Imagining: The History of Merseyside Unity Theatre, 1937-1987' - Archive & Exhibition
YouTube video by The Library@LJMU
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New Paul McCartney album out today 🎶 Revisit his catalogue with a curated track selection by editors of the Journal of Beatles Studies—including an 80-song playlist 🔗 bit.ly/JBS-80-at-80 @paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com #PaulMcCartney #BeatlesStudies #OpenAccess
Announcing our new #OpenAccess #DigitalCulturalHeritage series - thanks @sas-news.bsky.social! And thanks to the authors of the inaugural volume: @amsichani.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & Eirini Goudarouli @uknatarcsector.bsky.social. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
University of London Press launches new open access ‘Digital Cultural Heritage’ series
The University of London Press has published the inaugural volume in its new Digital Cultural Heritage series, co-authored by researchers from SAS and The National Archives, UK.
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