Karen Colbron
@kcols.bsky.social
Subject Matter Expert Digital Collections focusing on access and use of digital content in learning, teaching and research.
Discover how @jisc.bsky.social is driving down the costs of digital archival collections in the UK. digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/2...
Celebrating the power of collective participation to drive prices down - Digital collections
Amid increasingly tighter budgets across the UK educational sector, the digital archival group purchasing scheme offers a model that collectively benefits participating higher education institutions w...
digitisation.jiscinvolve.org
June 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Discover how @jisc.bsky.social is driving down the costs of digital archival collections in the UK. digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/2...
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We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6
April 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6
Registration for DCDC25 is now live!
The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions.
See you in Durham in July.
dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions.
See you in Durham in July.
dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
DCDC25 - DCDC25
A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being achiev...
dcdcconference.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Registration for DCDC25 is now live!
The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions.
See you in Durham in July.
dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions.
See you in Durham in July.
dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education.
www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...
www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...
Award-nominated guide update aims to help FE and HE organisations with records management - Jisc
www.jisc.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education.
www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...
www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...
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Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...
Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme - Jisc
Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.
www.jisc.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...
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Love this message from FDR and the Office of War Information. “Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” #books #bookbanning #history #reading #ideas #fdr #booksareweapons
November 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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New Royal Historical Society report on ‘The value of history in UK higher education and society’. It ‘highlights a growing divergence between the popularity of history—as a subject of study and public interest—and the security of historians within UK higher education’ #skystorians
files.royalhistsoc.org
October 28, 2024 at 12:49 PM
New Royal Historical Society report on ‘The value of history in UK higher education and society’. It ‘highlights a growing divergence between the popularity of history—as a subject of study and public interest—and the security of historians within UK higher education’ #skystorians
Fabulous final keynote from Erik Boekesteijn #openengaged at the British Library
October 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Fabulous final keynote from Erik Boekesteijn #openengaged at the British Library
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You should still be able to register for the Open Athens session tomorrow. One of the many Jisc cyber security services we provide to universities, colleges, and schools in the UK. www.jisc.ac.uk/cyber-security
October 9, 2024 at 10:51 AM
You should still be able to register for the Open Athens session tomorrow. One of the many Jisc cyber security services we provide to universities, colleges, and schools in the UK. www.jisc.ac.uk/cyber-security
Only 10 days left to apply to the DCDC2025 conference call for papers: dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/call-...
Call for papers - DCDC25
Call for papers Choose Your Own Future: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Solutions As a community, the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference has addressed change in a myriad...
dcdcconference.co.uk
October 4, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Only 10 days left to apply to the DCDC2025 conference call for papers: dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/call-...
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History Day is back and celebrating its 10th year! Join us on 5 Nov 11:00 - 16:00 at Senate House to explore the library, museum, archive and special collections from around the UK. Sign up for #HistDay24 is now open … see you there! Discover more at: buff.ly/3zyvHLE
September 27, 2024 at 1:28 PM
History Day is back and celebrating its 10th year! Join us on 5 Nov 11:00 - 16:00 at Senate House to explore the library, museum, archive and special collections from around the UK. Sign up for #HistDay24 is now open … see you there! Discover more at: buff.ly/3zyvHLE
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For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about iPres 2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/i...
iPres 2024
Ghent - which I experienced virtually! Well it’s been a while since I was at iPres but this year I was really pleased to be back immersed in all that digipres goodness virtually joining in with many a...
anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com
September 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about iPres 2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/i...
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An important (and overdue) Govt comissioned report now available:
The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
#History 🗃️
The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
#History 🗃️
The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal: independent research report (accessible)
www.gov.uk
September 26, 2024 at 11:34 AM
An important (and overdue) Govt comissioned report now available:
The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
#History 🗃️
The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
#History 🗃️
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Join us next Wed 25/9 at 17:30 either at the IHR Wolfson Room or online via Zoom as @brycchancarey.bsky.social of Northumbria University will kick off our Autumn seminar program with a paper on eighteenth century clerical naturalism. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/ratio...
The ‘rational study of God’s works’: Eighteenth-century clerical naturalists and the origins of the modern life sciences
www.history.ac.uk
September 18, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Join us next Wed 25/9 at 17:30 either at the IHR Wolfson Room or online via Zoom as @brycchancarey.bsky.social of Northumbria University will kick off our Autumn seminar program with a paper on eighteenth century clerical naturalism. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/ratio...
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"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from."
AI in publishing going great then
www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
AI in publishing going great then
www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
www.thebookseller.com
August 30, 2024 at 1:54 PM
"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from."
AI in publishing going great then
www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
AI in publishing going great then
www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
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And here it is: the UKRI CEO role now readvertised. Very important for R&D, and hence for UK prosperity so let's hope for a really good field of candidates
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
UK Research and Innovation - Saxton Bampfylde - Global Executive Search & Leadership Consulting
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is at the forefront of driving the nation's research and innovation agenda, playing a pivotal role in the Government's
www.saxbam.com
August 30, 2024 at 9:20 AM
And here it is: the UKRI CEO role now readvertised. Very important for R&D, and hence for UK prosperity so let's hope for a really good field of candidates
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
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Chunk of today preparing the launch of the forthcoming toolkit on #digitalpreservation and community-generated digital content. Launch due 7th November aka World Digital Preservation Day. Will interest folks at #ara2024
August 28, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Chunk of today preparing the launch of the forthcoming toolkit on #digitalpreservation and community-generated digital content. Launch due 7th November aka World Digital Preservation Day. Will interest folks at #ara2024
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Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...
August 21, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...
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As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS
royalhistsoc.org
August 22, 2024 at 10:39 AM
As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!