#LDNOpenFest26 The London #OpenScience & Scholarship Festival 2026. OpenResearch: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences on Friday, 24 April, Online.

As part of the #LDNOpenFest26, we are hosting: #OpenResearch: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences on Friday afternoon exploring it from non-traditional outputs to data, infrastructure & digital skills in #AHSS. Join us if you can!

🗓️ 24 April | 🕑 2–3:30pm BST | 📍 Online
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4u60XbF

Submission Instructions - Ai4lam FF2026 will be both in‑person and hybrid! Submit your proposal via: Fantastic Futures 2026 – ConfTool Pro – Login The information below is for planning purposes and may change or expand. The Program…

Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! ai4lam.org/submission-i...

#FF2026 is in the US, but will be very hybrid so you don't need to travel there to present or attend many sessions #AI4LAM #MuseTech

Looking for something to read over the Easter break? @susan-librarian.bsky.social has just published our latest #Scholcomm newsletter featuring great selection of news, announcements, readings, events. Lots to catch up again - have a look #openresearch #openscholarship mailchi.mp/0945df75792c...

We’re delighted to welcome @blmedieval.bsky.social to Bluesky 👋

Follow for fascinating insights into medieval manuscripts, music, and history from the British Library’s collections.

Library conferences on BlueSky A list of library and information science conferences, with links to their hashtags on the social media platform BlueSky.

Exciting news - I have actually updated the Library Conferences on BlueSky page, and it now has current and previous 2026 sections! Lots to do to add in events I have noted in screenshots and saved emails, but good progress.

Tam 10 yıl önce bugün, 11 Mart 2016’da Creative Commons Türkiye lansmanını gerçekleştirdik. 10 yılda açıklık kavramı ile ilgili sayısız etkinliğin, savunuculuk faaliyetinin içinde yer aldık. Bizimle olduğunuz için teşekkür ederiz.

Nice 10 yıllara :)

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Copim Conference 2026 : Copim Community : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive On Feb 26 and 27, 2026, the two-day conference brought together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven open access book...

For those that missed it - videos of all sessions at the @copim.bsky.social conference last week are now available on the Internet Archive.
Lots of enthusiasm and stimulating discussion around community-led publishing of #openaccessbooks ....
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Together w/ @susan-librarian.bsky.social at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, we teamed up with @jennye.bsky.social to organise the "#OpenResearch: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences perspective" online session. More details are coming soon. Here is the link to register! bit.ly/OpenResearch...

Very exciting to see the full rogramme of the London #OpenScience & Scholarship Festival 2026! #LDNOpenFest26 Led by fantastic team of @uclopenscience.bsky.social Booking is now open. Check the sessions out and note that Tue. 21 April is in-person at the @fci-library.bsky.social 🎊

AI and Repositories Looking for our work on “Dealing with Bots”? Visit the website Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents many opportunities for improving scholarly communications but also brings with it si…

Recording of the dealing with #AIbots webinars from COAR is now available coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/a.... You can also check their dedicated site for new resources for repository managers at dealing-with-bots.coar-repositories.org

We’re hiring a Social Media Manager at the British Library.

Join our Digital Engagement team and help connect audiences with the stories, collections and ideas of the UK’s national library.

📍 St Pancras
Apply by 15 March 2026
More details here: link.bl.uk/rkj

February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

MORPHSS Catalogue launch event and panel discussion Documenting open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: MORPHSS Catalogue launch event and panel discussion.

Documenting #openresearch practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: #MORPHSS Catalogue launch event and panel discussion. Thursday 19th March, 15.00-16.30 GMT. #AHSS www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morphss-ca...

Special thanks to @susan-librarian.bsky.social for making this happen! This rich book is downloadable and fully searchable via the British Library’s Research Repository.

AI in the Research Library - Research Libraries UK AI in the Research Library RLUK recognises the impact which Artificial Intelligence, in particular GenAI, is having across our research libraries. AI is reshaping the research landscape and…

RLUK's AI in the Research Library collection brings together talks from their programmes and conference series. It is grouped across four themes: AI Strategy & Futures in Libraries, AI Tools and Technical Skills, AI Bias, Law and Ethics and AI and Open Source Infrastructure. www.rluk.ac.uk/ai/

Webinar: From Vision to Implementation: Libraries and Research Managers Driving Open Research Information - LIBER Europe

#Webinar @libereurope.bsky.social From Vision to Implementation: Libraries and Research Managers Driving Open Research Information.
Apr 15, 2026 14:00 CET
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Webinar: From deals to cost distribution: How libraries share and manage the costs of national-level (transformative) open access publishing agreements - LIBER Europe

#Webinar @libereurope.bsky.social From deals to cost distribution: How libraries share and manage the costs of national-level (transformative) open access publishing agreements.
Mar 9, 2026 14:00 CET
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Fantastic Futures 2025: highlights and resources Hundreds of information professionals gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage.

In December, hundreds of library, museum, archive and research staff gathered at the British Library to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage. Find out more: www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fant... #AI4LAM

Opportunities to support the Open Repositories Conference are still available. Expression of interest closes on Friday, January 30. Feel free to share this with those who might be interested in providing financial support! #OpenRepos #OpenRepos2026
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Web archive research in an age of Smart Data | British Library The web represents the largest unstructured data collection, with a huge variety of data types, creators and sources, distributed across the world. The arc

The British Library is hosting a free event on 9 Feb, 18:30: Web Archive Research in an Age of Smart Data. Hear from Emmanouil Tranos, Thom Vaughan, Dr Andrea Kocsis, and Cameron Huggett. Chair: Jane Winters.
📍Location: BL Knowledge Centre, London.
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So sad to learn of death of Paul Ayris - a passionate, enthusiastic, encouraging and supportive advocate for #OpenAccess. The force behind the establishment of #UCLPress and the OAI Conferences, and of #OA policies at individual HEI and national funder level. RIP Paul.
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New Artificial Intelligence Policy released by OLH The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' edit...

OLH has just released its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy!

After a year-long consultation with our journal editors, the policy sets out how generative AI can be used responsibly in academic publishing. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/885/

AI and Repositories Looking for our work on “Dealing with Bots”? Visit the website Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents many opportunities for improving scholarly communications but also brings with it si…

#AIBots @coar-repositories.bsky.social has published the initial outcomes of their work on the impact of AIBots on #openrepositories and developed a new, dedicated website. #Openrepos
Dealing With Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers
coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/a...

Final week to submit proposals for #OpenRepos2026, don’t miss out! #OpenRepos This year, OR2026 will take place ONLINE on June 8-11, 2026. It is a great opportunity to meet the open repositories community, engage with peers and showcase your work. or2026.openrepositories.org/program/call...

It was a pleasure to have you speaking at the #OpenEngaged again Rupert! I am grateful. Pity it wasn’t in-person this time but I hope to see you next at the #COPIM Conf. Fingers crossed 🤞

Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge? // British Library This year’s Open and Engaged Conference aligns with the Open Access Week 2025 theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, by exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is…

Happy Friday! Recordings and slides are now available from Open and Engaged Conference 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" Here is the link to the collection of fantastic talks and presentations. #OpenEngaged doi.org/10.22020/dgz...

Webinar from @sparc-eu.bsky.social: Can the ERA Act Help Reach 100% Open Access? 10 December 2025 11:00-12:30CET
www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/o...

Public Domain Day in Europe 2026 On the first day of each new year, a wealth of heritage enters the public domain. This material is perfect for being made as freely accessible as possible – though this doesn’t always happen. With…

#PublicDomain Day in Europe 2026 will take place on 15 January at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and online. Europe track in the morning and afternoon sessions are in English. meemoo.be/en/training-...

DISKAH Webinar: Technical Writing in the Humanities DISKAH webinar on Technical Writing in the Humanities

The Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities Network (#DISKAH) is organising an online webinar on “Technical Writing in the #Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint” in collaboration with the Programming Historian. Dec 15 from 1:30pm to 3pm GMT
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Register for the UK @datacite.org event from our own #DataServices at the British Library.
The #CARE Principles For #IndigenousData and #DataSovereignty Webinar.
🗓️ Thu, 11 Dec.
🟢 9:00-11:30 GMT
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc1aa...
🟠 16:00-18:15 GMT
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