Open Research, University of Sheffield
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Providing information and advice about making your research open at the University of Sheffield.
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Unwrap our festive podcast on visual data in research. We explore how to mobilise visual data in open research, and tackle reproducibility, documentation and sharing + tools and institutional perspectives with Dr Ester Ehiyazaryan-White, our #UKRN LNL at SHU👇
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Mobilise visual data and make it part of open research design. by SHU Open Research Podcast
In this episode, we dive into the growing role of visual data in research—from images and videos to graphs, maps, and other visual materials—and explore how visuals can reveal insights that text or nu...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Unwrap our festive podcast on visual data in research. We explore how to mobilise visual data in open research, and tackle reproducibility, documentation and sharing + tools and institutional perspectives with Dr Ester Ehiyazaryan-White, our #UKRN LNL at SHU👇
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Registration is open for Open Research Week Ireland 2026. This first-time event is a collaboration btwn Dublin City U, U College Cork, U College Dublin, U of Galway, & Queen's U Belfast, celebrating open researchers & the professionals who support them. Full schedule here: www.dcu.ie/library/open...
Open Research Week | DCU Library
www.dcu.ie
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Registration is open for Open Research Week Ireland 2026. This first-time event is a collaboration btwn Dublin City U, U College Cork, U College Dublin, U of Galway, & Queen's U Belfast, celebrating open researchers & the professionals who support them. Full schedule here: www.dcu.ie/library/open...
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Would you look at that?! It's an early Christmas pressie! The Open Research Conference 2026 Call for Contributions is now live!
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
This year we're celebrating our adoption of the UNESCO recommendation for Open Science.
Go on, treat yourself... throw in a submission.
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
This year we're celebrating our adoption of the UNESCO recommendation for Open Science.
Go on, treat yourself... throw in a submission.
Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 | Library | Library
Find out how to submit a contribution for for the 2026 Open Research Conference. This year our conference centers on UNESCO's "Recommendations for Open Science", reflecting our new institutional…
library.ed.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Would you look at that?! It's an early Christmas pressie! The Open Research Conference 2026 Call for Contributions is now live!
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
This year we're celebrating our adoption of the UNESCO recommendation for Open Science.
Go on, treat yourself... throw in a submission.
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
This year we're celebrating our adoption of the UNESCO recommendation for Open Science.
Go on, treat yourself... throw in a submission.
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Fake DOI-like strings are increasingly common. Learn how to check whether a DOI is valid, how prefixes work, and more. https://tinyurl.com/599yk8yv
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Fake DOI-like strings are increasingly common. Learn how to check whether a DOI is valid, how prefixes work, and more. https://tinyurl.com/599yk8yv
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
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Data stewardship encompasses a broad range of activities in the management of research data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to reuse 💾
If you play a role in data stewardship at York, or are the designated ‘data person’ in your area, then consider joining our new network 👇
If you play a role in data stewardship at York, or are the designated ‘data person’ in your area, then consider joining our new network 👇
Research Data Stewardship Network
Join the Research Data Stewardship Network at the University of York
www.york.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Data stewardship encompasses a broad range of activities in the management of research data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to reuse 💾
If you play a role in data stewardship at York, or are the designated ‘data person’ in your area, then consider joining our new network 👇
If you play a role in data stewardship at York, or are the designated ‘data person’ in your area, then consider joining our new network 👇
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For the second day of #12DaysOfWRUP, we’re sharing a bit about our story and mission.
WRUP was founded in 2016 by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to publish high-quality, open access academic work. In 2026, we’ll be celebrating our 10th anniversary — 👀 this space for details!
WRUP was founded in 2016 by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to publish high-quality, open access academic work. In 2026, we’ll be celebrating our 10th anniversary — 👀 this space for details!
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For the second day of #12DaysOfWRUP, we’re sharing a bit about our story and mission.
WRUP was founded in 2016 by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to publish high-quality, open access academic work. In 2026, we’ll be celebrating our 10th anniversary — 👀 this space for details!
WRUP was founded in 2016 by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to publish high-quality, open access academic work. In 2026, we’ll be celebrating our 10th anniversary — 👀 this space for details!
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Welcome to the 12 Days of White Rose University Press! 🎉
Throughout December, we’ll be sharing facts, stories, and insights about WRUP — our books, people, and our mission to make research open and accessible. Join us as we celebrate another fantastic year of open research and publishing.
Throughout December, we’ll be sharing facts, stories, and insights about WRUP — our books, people, and our mission to make research open and accessible. Join us as we celebrate another fantastic year of open research and publishing.
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Welcome to the 12 Days of White Rose University Press! 🎉
Throughout December, we’ll be sharing facts, stories, and insights about WRUP — our books, people, and our mission to make research open and accessible. Join us as we celebrate another fantastic year of open research and publishing.
Throughout December, we’ll be sharing facts, stories, and insights about WRUP — our books, people, and our mission to make research open and accessible. Join us as we celebrate another fantastic year of open research and publishing.
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Calling all digital research technical professionals and researchers across the UK!
We are once again teaming up with @ukri.org to host the DRI Retreat in Manchester in 2026.
Save 23rd-27th March in your diary and sign up for notifications:
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
We are once again teaming up with @ukri.org to host the DRI Retreat in Manchester in 2026.
Save 23rd-27th March in your diary and sign up for notifications:
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
Survey | DRI26 Interest
Provide details to be informed about DRI26
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Calling all digital research technical professionals and researchers across the UK!
We are once again teaming up with @ukri.org to host the DRI Retreat in Manchester in 2026.
Save 23rd-27th March in your diary and sign up for notifications:
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
We are once again teaming up with @ukri.org to host the DRI Retreat in Manchester in 2026.
Save 23rd-27th March in your diary and sign up for notifications:
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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Late to the game sharing this: Stage 1 of #CALC26 CfP is out and we're accepting submissions
The Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference is for anyone with research, projects, perspectives on all things using critical practice in libraries and information studies
sites.google.com/view/calccon...
The Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference is for anyone with research, projects, perspectives on all things using critical practice in libraries and information studies
sites.google.com/view/calccon...
CALC
A conference to discuss critical practice in libraries.
sites.google.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Late to the game sharing this: Stage 1 of #CALC26 CfP is out and we're accepting submissions
The Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference is for anyone with research, projects, perspectives on all things using critical practice in libraries and information studies
sites.google.com/view/calccon...
The Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference is for anyone with research, projects, perspectives on all things using critical practice in libraries and information studies
sites.google.com/view/calccon...
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Universities want new business models, not just discounts.
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Universities want new business models, not just discounts.
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
For Equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing | Pour un édition scientifique équitable et pérenne [Checklist]
This bilingual checklist presents 13 concrete actions researchers can take to move toward a more equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem.Each action is classified by career stage (all...
zenodo.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
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Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought:
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
"Journal style does not allow 3-dimensional figures. Please rework Figure 5 into a figure with only 2 axes if possible"
a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting in an airplane .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting in an airplane .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought:
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
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This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share
If you use #qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all […]
If you use #qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all […]
Original post on mastodon.online
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November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share
If you use #qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all […]
If you use #qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all […]
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Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
The N8 Research Partnership launched its Rights Retention statement in January 2023. Now nearly three years later and with the sector in the midst of a financial crisis, the...
leeds.libcal.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
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Tenzing will also gently encourage best practices for Acknowledgments sections, by modeling them in its outputs.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Tenzing will also gently encourage best practices for Acknowledgments sections, by modeling them in its outputs.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
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@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!
tenzing Documenting contributorship with CRediT
tenzing.club
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!
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New resource by the ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group: the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model, a tool to assist institutions assess their practices & capacity to evaluate data contributions.
View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New resource by the ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group: the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model, a tool to assist institutions assess their practices & capacity to evaluate data contributions.
View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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⚡We are recruiting🌟
We are looking for a fixed-term Digitisation Officer and a fixed-term Digital Engagement Officer (with possibility to extend) to work in our Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team!
Find out more info here 👀👀➡️ tinyurl.com/4epkcfp2
We are looking for a fixed-term Digitisation Officer and a fixed-term Digital Engagement Officer (with possibility to extend) to work in our Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team!
Find out more info here 👀👀➡️ tinyurl.com/4epkcfp2
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
⚡We are recruiting🌟
We are looking for a fixed-term Digitisation Officer and a fixed-term Digital Engagement Officer (with possibility to extend) to work in our Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team!
Find out more info here 👀👀➡️ tinyurl.com/4epkcfp2
We are looking for a fixed-term Digitisation Officer and a fixed-term Digital Engagement Officer (with possibility to extend) to work in our Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team!
Find out more info here 👀👀➡️ tinyurl.com/4epkcfp2
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The latest Opinion from #UKSGInsights journal: Andrew Johnson from the University of Sheffield Library - "Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector" dub.sh/55gEiGy
October 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The latest Opinion from #UKSGInsights journal: Andrew Johnson from the University of Sheffield Library - "Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector" dub.sh/55gEiGy
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Everyone needs to take the Creative Commons Personality Quiz. #OAWeek
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
CCpersonalityQuiz
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October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Everyone needs to take the Creative Commons Personality Quiz. #OAWeek
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x
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This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25
October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25
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It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself.
We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself.
We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
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New Open Research in Practice case study:
The Feminist WonderLab Collective: An ECR space to support feminist practices and Open Scholarship by Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Research Associate
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
Read about their work on our wiki 👇
The Feminist WonderLab Collective: An ECR space to support feminist practices and Open Scholarship by Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Research Associate
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
Read about their work on our wiki 👇
York Wiki Service
uoy.atlassian.net
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New Open Research in Practice case study:
The Feminist WonderLab Collective: An ECR space to support feminist practices and Open Scholarship by Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Research Associate
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
Read about their work on our wiki 👇
The Feminist WonderLab Collective: An ECR space to support feminist practices and Open Scholarship by Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Research Associate
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
Read about their work on our wiki 👇
To celebrate #OAWeek, book onto one of our training sessions!
✨21st Oct: OA for books & chapters
✨21st Oct: Demystifying open research I: authorship
✨23rd Oct: Bitesize OA webinar (REF&UKRI policies)
✨23rd Oct: Copyright misconceptions
✨23rd Oct: Demystifying open research II: publications
Links 👇
✨21st Oct: OA for books & chapters
✨21st Oct: Demystifying open research I: authorship
✨23rd Oct: Bitesize OA webinar (REF&UKRI policies)
✨23rd Oct: Copyright misconceptions
✨23rd Oct: Demystifying open research II: publications
Links 👇
We've got some training for @sheffielduni.bsky.social researchers coming up for #OAweek2025!
✨21st October - Exploring open access for books & chapters
✨23rd October - Bitesize OA webinar (REF & UKRI policies)
✨23rd October - Copyright misconceptions
Book via myDevelopment using links below -
✨21st October - Exploring open access for books & chapters
✨23rd October - Bitesize OA webinar (REF & UKRI policies)
✨23rd October - Copyright misconceptions
Book via myDevelopment using links below -
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
To celebrate #OAWeek, book onto one of our training sessions!
✨21st Oct: OA for books & chapters
✨21st Oct: Demystifying open research I: authorship
✨23rd Oct: Bitesize OA webinar (REF&UKRI policies)
✨23rd Oct: Copyright misconceptions
✨23rd Oct: Demystifying open research II: publications
Links 👇
✨21st Oct: OA for books & chapters
✨21st Oct: Demystifying open research I: authorship
✨23rd Oct: Bitesize OA webinar (REF&UKRI policies)
✨23rd Oct: Copyright misconceptions
✨23rd Oct: Demystifying open research II: publications
Links 👇