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Libraries of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York; supporting shared repositories, White Rose University Press, and innovating through collaboration.

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Happy birthday to #CharlesDickens, who was born #onthisday in 1812! It's a great day to celebrate this great English writer's enduring legacy - fortunately we've got a book that does just that! Check out this #openaccess monograph on the WRUP website: universitypress.whiterose.ac…
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University of York@UniOfYork16 Jan 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 PhD Spotlight competition: 🥇 1st - Fedor Topolev-Soldunov 🥈 2nd - Minahil Khan 🥉 3rd - Brandon Daniel Tipper ✨ People's choice - Minahil Khan Read more all the finalists, york.ac.uk/research/graduate… #YorkTalks @UoYYGRS @bric_york
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📅 Date: 21 January 2025, 12-1pm 📍 Location: Online via Zoom 👉 Click here to register for this event: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #OpenResearch #OpenAccessFuture #AcademicPublishing

The realities, challenges and future of open access publishing - attendee registration form

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2025 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online via Zoom Responses to this form are monitored by the Open Research team and stored securely in a shared Google Drive folder accessible...

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📣We're excited to work with all three prizewinners of the 2024 Sheffield Doctoral Publishing Prize! Many congratulations indeed to Yiyun Liu, Lucas Gastiarena and Owen Gurrey PhD graduates in Music, Education & English respectively.
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Read the full announcement here: sheffield.ac.uk/library/open…
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🎉 Some exciting news! Not only can you follow us here on X, but you can now find us on other platforms too. Check us out here!🦋 bsky.app/profile/wrunipress.…
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#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! University of Sheffield. Opening up practice-based research. 4 December 2024. Online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-u…

Opening up practice-based research

An Open Research Conversation at the University of Sheffield

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Continuing to highlight teams supporting your research journey… 📣 The Open Research team provides online and in-person support to Postgraduate Researchers through individual appointments, departmental meetings and training workshops. Find out more at york.ac.uk/library/research-…

Open Research team

The Open Research team works in partnership with academic and research staff, postgraduate researchers, and other staff facilitating research.

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📢#StepUp, it's #UPWeek ! University press publications educate, enlighten, motivate, and inspire. Here are some of our latest #openaccess books that deal with current issues and global challenges. Download them from our website! tinyurl.com/DownloadHromazic tinyurl.com/DownloadBiopower
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Happy World Digital Preservation Day! #digipres Check out the listed events organised by different communities in different regions throughout the day on 7th Nov. dpconline.org/events/world-d…
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World Digital Preservation Day 2024 is in full swing! Exciting #WDPD2024 events are happening globally: dpconline.org/events/world-d… How are you celebrating? Share photos of your #digipres decorations, workspace, or WDPD bakes! Join the global community in marking this special day!
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Symplectic@Symplectic6 Nov 2024
Excited to feature Beverley Jones from @sheffielduni at the @figshare & Symplectic Conference! Her roadmap towards #FAIRdata & software is an inspiring guide for #OpenScience. Thanks, Beverley, for advancing #ResearchTransparency!
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Considering publishing an #OA book, but worried about the inclusion of third-party materials (e.g. images)? This is the webinar for you! Learn from experts and share challenges you face or solutions you've found with others 👇
oabooksnetwork (not posting here anymore)@oabooksnetwork31 Oct 2024
FREE WEBINAR: From Permission to Publication: Managing Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books This solutions-focused session brings together expert speakers to share their experiences of this key issue. 📅 Tues 19 November, 13.30 GMT 👉 SIGN UP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Sue Lacey Bryant@SueLaceybryant6 Nov 2024
What next for AI in libraries? A mixed blessing? Let's learn, mitigate the risks & maximise the benefits. A pleasure to join a Panel discussion with @mkhokhar @UniversityLeeds & Liam Garrett @leedslibraries, with Mia Ridge @britishlibrary, hosted by the glorious @theleedslibrary
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University of London Press@UoLPress25 Oct 2024
To round off #OAWeek, our next blog post is from our Publisher @emma_gallon, with her thoughts on how she sees #OpenResearch as one of the key ways to improve research and publishing culture. uolpress.co.uk/2024/10/refle… @SASNews @oipassoc @OpenBookCollect #OpenAccess @UofLondon

Reflecting on publishing and research culture - with our Publisher, Dr Emma Gallon - University of...

Open research and research culture in the humanities: ‘community over commercialisation’ The Royal Society’s definition of research culture as encompassing the ‘behaviours, values, expectations,...

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Open Research TUoS@OpenResShef23 Oct 2024
Don't forget that the UKRI open access policy now includes monographs, edited collections & book chapters. Guidance for researchers is available on our webpages: sheffield.ac.uk/library/open…. #OAWeek 2024
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Following our spotlight on OA monographs… we also host OA journals 📚 Free to access and full of valuable research. Explore a handful below or on the WRUP website! bit.ly/3YCLS3h #OpenAccess #FreeKnowledge #CommunityOverCommercialisation
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Exciting news from WRUP! 📚 We’re releasing a diverse range of open-access titles soon—covering poetry, history, physics, philosophy, and more. Follow the link to explore! bit.ly/40ioCKb #OpenAccess #Community #WhiteRoseUniversityPress
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Open Research TUoS@OpenResShef24 Oct 2024
Did you know there are a growing number of options for publishing an OA book? Have a look at our list of fully OA book publishers - including @WRUniPress, @OpenBookPublish, @punctum_books, @lsepress, @UCLpress, @MayflyBooks & more! sheffield.ac.uk/library/know… #OAWeek 2024
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Johanna Archbold@Johanna_speaks23 Oct 2024
Still time to register for this @IOAP_community & @oipassoc joint webinar for #OpenAccessWeek 2024. Looking forward to welcoming great speakers from the @Copim_community Opening the Future, Open Book Collective @OpenBookCollect and Thoth Open Metadata @Thoth_metadata Reg below ⬇️
Open Institutional Publishing Association@oipassoc17 Oct 2024
Want to learn more about the #OpenAccess books landscape? Join us on 24th October for a webinar with OIPA & @IOAP_community – 'Delivering Open Access for Books by Default: The role of community-led funding models and infrastructures'. See you there! 📚 ioapblog.blogspot.com/2024/0…
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For this year’s #OAWeek, we’ll be highlighting a number of useful resources for authors looking for more information about -- and support with -- publishing an #OAbook. Oh, and did we mention they’re all free? #OAWeek 📢openaccessbooksnetwork.hcomm…📢
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