London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 – open for booking! | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

Have you booked any sessions at the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival yet?

Check out the full programme & book events on #OpenAccess and #Rights, #Publishing, #Funding, #OpenResearch, #Gender and #Ethics & more!

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

#LDNOpenFest26 @uclopenscience.bsky.social

What’s it like to use DataSeer SnapShot to check for #openscience policy compliance in @ariessystems.bsky.social Editorial Manager? We’re so glad you asked…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMhX...

#opendata #openresearch #scisky

Research-Practice Partnerships | The MORPHSS Catalogue

Practice #25 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Research-Practice Partnerships

"Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) seek to bring research and practice closer together through sustained collaboration between researchers and practitioners..."

#OpenResearch #OpenAHSS

This Wednesday join Research Data Steward Kate Harrigan for ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club.

📅: Wed, 1st April
🕐: 13:00-14:00
📍: Archives & Special Collections Training Room

If you’re interested in #openresearch / #openscience / #openscholarship!
👇
universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4399742

Jason at Limoges Airport

Four people stood watching the rear end of a Ryanair plane

On route to #UKSG2026 in Glasgow (via Manchester and Preston) from the bustling hub of Limoges Airport! Feel free to grab me tomorrow or Tuesday to chat all things #OpenResearch, #OpenAccess and analytics from @chorusaccess.bsky.social

The @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Roadshow at @ucc.ie A huge thank you to everyone joining us! Your input is central to shaping the future of public engagement in open research. #OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #LetsGoEngaged

The @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Roadshow at @ucc.ie

A huge thank you to everyone joining us! Your input is central to shaping the future of public engagement in open research.

#OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #LetsGoEngaged

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✨ New on the blog!

March Copyright Reads (2026) is live and packed with fresh insights, updates, and thought‑provoking stories from the world of copyright and research.

📚 Dive in here: blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/03/...

#Copyright #OpenResearch

Critical Thinking for Equity on Both Ends of the AI Model A Research Support Librarian and Open Research Champion at Sheffield Hallam University examines what transparency, equity, and responsible practice really require when black-box AI systems become rout...

New in Society & AI — Domi Smithson, Open Research Champion at the Sheffield Hallam, asks: what does transparency require when AI tools are black boxes in research? A practitioner lens on AI literacy:

societyandai.org/insights/cri...

#OpenResearch #OEWeek2026 @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

OA Dashboard

Considering we don’t have national infrastructure (or mandates) for open access in Aotearoa - our universities repositories and OA agreements are shifting the dial but not sure if we can get to 70% without them. Congrats to Massey and Lincoln who have! #OpenResearch

tesaunders.github.io/oa-nz/

#UKSG2026 update: Jason De Boer is en route from France to Glasgow representing CHORUS.

If you see him in Glasgow, do the right thing:
- welcome him to Scotland
- ask what actually happened on the journey 😏
- then steal 5 minutes to talk CHORUS and open research

#OpenResearch #ScholComm

CERN to Host Open Research Europe, Europe’s Flagship Open Access #Publishing Platform home.cern/news/news/ce...
&
Germany Joins Open Research Europe www.dfg.de/en/service/p...
#oa #openaccess #scholcomm #openresearch @cern.bsky.social

🚨Special feature this week is a @seamammalresearch.bsky.social paper out last month🦭but there's more:

Explore research from @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social with open access datasets and articles:

🤓👉📚 research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/j...

#OpenResearch #MarMam #MarineMammals

Authorship (Collective, Collaborative or Communal) | The MORPHSS Catalogue

Practice #4 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Collective, collaborative or communal authorship.

"Collective authorship practices allow the demonstrably communal nature of authorship to manifest as an open and collaborative process..."

#OpenResearch #AHSS

For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate - LSE Impact The unique expertise of research institutions and publishers mean that any resolution to research integrity issues can only be achieved through collaboration.

💥New post | For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate

✍️ Heidi Ormstad, @rnls.bsky.social & @roeggen.bsky.social

#AcademicPublishing #OpenResearch #ResearchIntegrity

#ReproducibiliTea #Reproducibility #OpenScience #MetaResearch #ResearchCulture #AcademicCommunity #EarlyCareerResearchers #ScienceCommunication #OpenResearch #TeamScience

Join our next talk on Open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences with Dr Jenni Adams from @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social on 26 March at 2 pm UK time! See Teams link in comments. uea-uk.libguides.com/researchrepro #OpenScience #openresearch #reproducibilitea

Interested in taking part in a global co-creation with other #OpenScholarship champions and practitioners? 🌍 Applications are coming through now to be matched, discuss and create. Join them! 🌟
Closing date 8 April 26.
#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #OpenResearch #OpenSource #OpenPedagogy #OpenScience

ENGAGED Roadmap roadshow at University of Galway. Real conversations on moving research from “for people” to “with people”. Strong engagement, clear appetite for change. #Publicengagement #OpenResearch #LetsGoEngaged

@engagedroadmap.bsky.social roadshow at @universityofgalway.bsky.social
Real conversations on moving research from “for people” to “with people”.
Strong engagement, clear appetite for change

#Publicengagement #OpenResearch #LetsGoEngaged

Promotional graphic inviting to meet Jason De Boer at UKSG conference on March 30-31, 2026, discussing open research developments.

Heading to #UKSG2026 in Glasgow?

Our European Business Development Lead, Jason De Boer, will be at the UKSG 2026 Conference on 30–31 March.

A quick chat could go a long way toward simplifying your open research workflows.
Schedule a meeting: jdeboer@chorusaccess.org

#OpenResearch #ScholComm

Research Data Steward Kathleen Harrigan joins the next ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club.

📅: Wed, 1st April
🕐: 13:00-14:00
📍: Archives & Special Collections Training Room

If you’re interested in #openresearch / #openscience / #openscholarship!
👇
universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4399742

"Meeting colleagues in person for the first time and making new connections highlighted just how integral mutual enthusiasm, sharing experiences and viewpoints and open discussion is for the [open research] landscape moving forward."

#CopimConference #OAbooks #OpenResearch #OpenAccess

Last week we updated our rights retention policy @lborouniversity.bsky.social so researchers no longer have to opt-in. This will make more of our amazing institutional research openly available at point of publication! More details on our blog and webpages #openaccess #openresearch #rightsretention

PIDfest 2026. SURF. Text imposed over photo of T.rex. skeleton. The PIDfest 2026 call for proposals is now open! We welcome proposals from all PID enthusiasts, wherever you are on your POD journey. The Call for Proposals will remind open through March 22. All information can be found on https://www.pidfest.org/ Photo by Museum Naturalis, own work, CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=154961665

Hey there, PID enthusiasts!

If you've been planning to submit a proposal for #PIDfest2026 and could use a little more time, rest easy. The deadline has now been extended to Tuesday, March 24! www.pidfest.org/pidfest-2026...

#PIDs #metadata #OpenResearch

Check out the Think Open blog's #OpenScience annual review for good reading tips 👇

#openresearch #openaccess #opendata #openeducation

LyrOpen Fair The Fifth Annual LyrOpen Fair: 2026 The Fifth Annual LyrOpen Fair The fifth annual LyrOpen Fair will be held virtually from March 24 to April 2, 2026, with five webinars exploring the open research…

Not long to go now until the Fifth Annual @wearelyrasis.bsky.social Open Fair!

📆 24 March - 2 April
✋️ 5 FREE webinars
🧐 Exploring the #OpenResearch & scholarship ecosystem

Find out more & register 👉 lyrasis.org/lyropen-fair/

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This Knowledge Exchange project on alternative publishing practices was one of the highlights of my work with Research Consulting last year https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17733624 Thanks to everyone I worked with on the project and to the participants for all their thoughtful contributions […]

This project on alternative publishing practices was one of the highlights of my work with researchconsulting.bsky.social last year. Thanks to everyone I worked with on the project and to the participants for all their thoughtful contributions #openaccess #openresearch #openinfrastructure

#openscience #openoutputs #philanthropy #genai #openresearch #opendata | Open Research Funders Group ✨ Last Friday ORFG members and guests gathered in a cold (and snowy!) Seattle at the Gates Foundation headquarters for our Annual meeting. We could not be more grateful to our host Ashley Farley for ...

Wowza! We had fun last Friday at our Annual Meeting. So many shoutouts to make, but for now, extra special thanks to @openaccessmaven.bsky.social for hosting us at the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social!!!

#OpenOutputs #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData

Original post on code4lib.social

"Planning is understood to promote trust in repositories] but [...] despite the importance assigned to succession planning in certification standards for trustworthy digital [#repositories (TDRs), there is little in-depth guidance on how to design and implement such plans."

Hope for the best […]