For our latest spotlight, we spoke to @adamcrymble.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at UCL. Our conversation covered early engagement with open science, his work establishing an open publishing platform, and a recently published open access book. Read it here: buff.ly/Bp3vdkM

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The panellists at the Festival were all excellent. If you missed it, I'd recommend catching the recordings. I found 'Open Research, Gender, and Ethics' and 'AI and Publishing: Unintended Consequences, Unexpected Disruptions' especially interesting. #IOEIDL

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It's been a few months now, but this is a reminder that all of the write-ups and recordings from this year's London Open Science and Scholarship Festival are listed on the Open@UCL blog. Find the blog post here: buff.ly/FXqXZzO #LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience #OpenResearch

It's been a few months now, but this is a reminder that all of the write-ups and recordings from this year's London Open Science and Scholarship Festival are listed on the Open@UCL blog. Find the blog post here: buff.ly/FXqXZzO #LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience #OpenResearch

The Open Research Calendar @openresearchcalendar.org is a free online calendar where you can find open research events and share your own! See what's on near you: openresearchcalendar.org #Research #OpenResearch #AcademicSky

Registration for #OpenFest26 is now open! Join us to explore "Open Research: People and Place" through talks, workshops, panels, and more. Register now: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... @openresshef.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

New blog post ✨ UCL Copyright Officer, @christined.bsky.social has written a brilliant piece for the Open@UCL blog looking at Copyright and Generative AI. She focuses primarily on the pertinent question: How much is GenAI disrupting the way we approach Copyright? Have a read:

Copyright and Generative AI: what (if anything) do we need to do differently? | UCL Open@UCL Blog

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One month until submissions close for UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards 🏆 Don't forget to get your applications and nominations in - we can't wait to hear about all the work happening to make knowledge open and accessible. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open...

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📢 Submissions for this year’s UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards are now open! These awards are a chance to celebrate the fantastic work in Open Science and Scholarship taking place across #UCL 🏆 Find out more and apply or nominate: buff.ly/LeISQpB (Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash)

UCL staff and students 📣 As part of a UCL Research Culture project, there is an upcoming workshop looking at understanding and improving experiences of open science practices. Open to anyone at UCL involved in research, in any capacity. July 29, 1:30pm and 3pm 🗓️ Register: buff.ly/k2nG3U0

Submissions for this year's #UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards are open until 21 August ⌛ There are five categories, and you can apply for yourself or your team, or nominate another individual or team. Find out more: buff.ly/YIweNx5 #OpenScience #RewardAndRecognition #ResearchCulture

New blog post 📣 Research Support Librarian, @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social, has written a brilliant piece about how doctoral research support can fall outside the bounds of formal supervision, and how the UKCGE Recognised Associate Supervisor Award is acknowledging this. Read the post:

The UKCGE Recognised Associate Supervisor Award: Supporting Doctoral Researchers in Open Science and Beyond | UCL Open@UCL Blog

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📚 Award-winning research, open to all ✨ We’re proud that many UCL Press titles have been recognised by leading organisations across multiple disciplines. Our open access publishing model makes world-class scholarship freely available to readers everywhere. What will you discover? 👉 uclpress.co.uk

UCL staff and students 📣 Hoping to create a data management plan for a research project but unsure where to begin? If so, join this upcoming session about data management plans which will answer a lot of questions. Date: 30 July Time: 10 - 11:50am Location: Online Register: buff.ly/Ags7JVy

We're excited to launch a new blog series on the Open@UCL blog, highlighting various citizen science case studies 📝 The first instalment is about the long-running Transcribe Bentham Project, have a read now: buff.ly/hzRD1qP #CitizenScience #OpenScience #ResearchCulture #JeremyBentham

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UCL Copyright Officer, Christine Daoutis, has written a blog post about the recent news that a group of publishers, including Elsevier, have filed a lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement. Have a read: buff.ly/wG8ToSK #Copyright #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

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⬇️ 31.17 million open access downloads ⬇️ 13.58 million book downloads ⬇️ 17.59 million journal downloads 📚443 books published 📕16 journals 🌍242 countries and territories reached UCL Press makes groundbreaking ideas available for free, worldwide. What will you discover? 👉 uclpress.co.uk/books/

Looking forward vey much to speaking about 'Theorising open research for the arts, humanities and social sciences via the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science' at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference later this week ⬇️

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EORC26 has a packed agenda of full talks, lightning talks, posters, and networking opportunities. The programme includes five main sessions, addressing some of the big picture issues found in Open Res...

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We're nearly there, and we've nearly sold out our in person spaces for this years Open Research Conference. If you'd still like to join us though, we would love for you to join us online - all the talks will be broadcast live. Register here:

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Good Research is Open Research - so what's stopping us from making research more open? Join the conversation at EORC26 online!

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Congratulations to Adam Crymble, Sarah Fox,Rachel Rich and Lisa Smith! Their new #OpenAccess book, The King's Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820 published yesterday! Read and download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

The King’s Dinner

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

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⏳Just over a week to go until the #OIPA2026 symposium! There's still time to register to attend in person or online. 📆 Thu 18 Jun ⏰️ 10am-5pm 📍 Sussex & online 💰 Free for all 👩‍💻 Full programme: oipauk.org/news-events-... 💸 Apply for a travel bursary: oipauk.org/2026/05/28/t... #OpenAccess

Travel Bursaries for the OIPA Symposium 2026

Travel Bursaries for the OIPA Symposium 2026 OIPA is pleased to offer a limited number of travel bursaries to support early career professionals working in open access, scholarly communications, an…

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Most of the presentation slides, write-ups and recordings from #LDNOpenFest26 are now on the Open@UCL blog. Whether you would like a recap or missed any of the sessions, we hope you find this a useful resource. Have a browse now: buff.ly/KNTAhXz #OpenScience #ResearchCulture #ResearchSupport

🚨 NEW RESOURCES! Head over to #CopimCompass to discover new content on the Knowledge Bases and Library Success Stories sections 🧭 Where can I publish a book open access without (necessarily) paying a fee? 👉 buff.ly/z79au3r Stories of Open 👉 buff.ly/BwdH7sO

📢 Submissions for this year’s UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards are now open! These awards are a chance to celebrate the fantastic work in Open Science and Scholarship taking place across #UCL 🏆 Find out more and apply or nominate: buff.ly/LeISQpB (Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash)

(How) can pre-registration serve the needs of qualitative research communities? Check out our entry for Practice #21 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Pre-registering qualitative research ⬇️ #OpenAHSS #OpenResearch #Pre-reg

#UCL staff and students 🔉 There's still time to register for the next Data Management Plan workshop. 📆 Monday 8 June, 10 to 11:50am 📍 Online The session will cover expectations of UCL and external funding agencies, support available at UCL, and FAIR data principles 👩‍💻 Register: buff.ly/defB5iC

Our latest newsletter is out: buff.ly/IldvQwY It features a range of training sessions, blog posts, resources, and an exciting announcement: Applications and nominations for this year's Open Science and Scholarship Awards are now open! 🏆 ✨ Apply or nominate: buff.ly/LeISQpB #OpenScience #Awards

For the latest instalment in our Spotlight series, we spoke with @banazjalil.bsky.social Throughout her career to date, Banaz has contributed significantly to the engagement with #OpenResearch practices, across the #UCL community and beyond. Read about her brilliant work: buff.ly/ASmHrP1

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If you missed our 'Open Access Publishing in Practice' session, with a number of brilliant authors sharing their insights, you can now read a full summary on our blog: 👉 uolpress.co.uk/2026/05/open... @uclopenscience.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social #LDNOpenFest26 #OpenAccess

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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Blog incoming but here's a link for those who'd like to watch the full recording of our #OpenAccess in Practice session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvyZ... Thanks again to everyone who took part! Incl @philippagrand.bsky.social @paulakennedy.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social! #LDNOpenFest26

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We're currently collating all the recordings and write-ups from #LDNOpenFest💡 In the meantime, we have published a write-up of the 'Careers in Open Science' session, in which four experts shared experience and advice for pursuing a career in this area. Read on our blog: buff.ly/Ds3yVQG

#UCL staff and students 🔉 Are you interested in #bibliometrics but unsure where to start? Consider joining this in-person training session which will cover all you need to know. Wednesday 3 June, 1pm - 3:50pm Register: buff.ly/2KuXu1i #ResearchImpact #ResearchCulture