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Dominic Allington-Smith
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#OpenAccess Librarian at UCL.
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Exciting update in our latest blog post 📢 UCL Discovery has reached 60 million downloads! ✨🥳

Read more about the milestone here :
UCL Discovery reaches 60 million downloads! | UCL Open@UCL Blog
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🏆 UCL is ranked 9th globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for the third year in a row.

This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation.

🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR
June 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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At last week's event to celebrate 10 years of UCL Press, we announced that we had reached our 20 millionth open access download! Find out more: uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-an...
June 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
December 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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REF 2029 Open Access Policy and Consultation and Engagement summary published 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202... #ref2029
REF 2029 Open Access Policy and Consultation and Engagement summary published  – REF 2029
2029.ref.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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We have just published our Festive Edition of the Open@UCL Newsletter! 🤶🏼

Find out more about our advent calendar, the UCL #OpenScience Awards, our first Citizen Science community event, UCL Principles of Authorship, and more!

Read the full newsletter: https://buff.ly/49rtuit

@AcademicSky
December 6, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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💥New: Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access Muthu Madhan argues the One Nation One Subscription policy risks significantly increasing expenditure while delivering little in return.

#AcademicSky #OpenAccess #OneNationOneSubscription
India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few
Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!
December 3, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Welcome to the #AdventCalendar of #ResearchSupport! Every day from today until Christmas we will be sharing our advent calendar! https://buff.ly/3ZsKi5F

Keep following for daily updates or visit our blog for an accessible version of the content: https://buff.ly/4g6hoh5
Advent Calendar of Research Support
UCL Open Science & Scholarship has created an advent calendar for you! Happy holidays! :)
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December 1, 2024 at 11:31 AM
December 1, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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🎉Octopus.ac has integrated with the UK government's Areas of Research Interest (ARI) database, enhancing collaboration between researchers and policymakers. Find out more about the new feature ji.sc/octopus-ari-...

#OpenResearch

@ukri.org @jisc.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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I have created a #starterpack of organisations and publishers active in the #OpenAccess and #OpenResearch ecosystem. #scholcomms
Let me know if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/SKC4wrS
November 25, 2024 at 11:41 AM
November 30, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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We would like to welcome our good friends @ucldiscovery.bsky.social to the platform! UCL Discovery shares Open Access research from UCL as it happens, follow them for regular updates on new publications!
November 28, 2024 at 5:01 PM
UCL Discovery is on Bluesky!
bsky.app/profile/ucld...
bsky.app
November 28, 2024 at 4:48 PM
November 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM