Are you confused about the REF2029 open access requirements and how to make sure your work will be eligible? Sign up on coursebooking for our 'ExplORe Session: Guide to the REF2029 Open Access Requirements' and we'll explain it all. Tomorrow at 2PM
📢Only one more day to sign up!🏃
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Have the changing guidelines for REF left you confused or uncertain? Join us for a session where we demystify the REF29 Open Access guidelines and teach you everything you need to make sure your research is eligible. Sign up on Coursebooking abdn.site/GREF29

After careful calculation by our most talented number ghouls, we are ready to announce the winner of Carve your PhD 2025: Yujun Wang, from the Computing Science department! Her PhD explores how languages express time and temporal relationships, and how these can be understood by LLMs

Polls close tomorrow morning! Get in your votes! Help us choose the next Halloween champion! abdn.site/phD

Entries are in, and here are your finalists for Carve your PhD 2025! Neepie lantern enjoyers please note we have a mix of pumpkins and neeps. You can read about their dissertations and cast your vote at: abdn.site/phD
Votes must be in 9:00 on 4 November!

This is something we're working on! We've created guides for finding open access resources aimed at unaffiliated scholars, including those in migrant communities. So far available in English, Ukrainian, and Arabic abdn.site/VPS5D

It's the final day! Entries for 'Carve your PhD' are due today! Carve the best pumpkin (or neep!) and you could win this fabulous trophy, plus £25 in book tokens (cat not included)! 🎃🍬🐈‍⬛🎉
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One of our first UKRI funded open access books, Narrative Objects, won the 2025 CMA Book Award, recognizing excellence in museum anthropology! This demonstrates how OA matters, widening access to great scholarship and increasing the impact of your work.
Read it here: doi.org/10.4324/9780...

Did you know today is National #BlackCatDay 🐈‍⬛?
Which seems like the perfect opportunity to remind you, there are only four more days to get in your entries for Carve your PhD! our annual contest to depict your thesis topic in pumpkin form. Details here: abdn.site/phD

It looks like we're in for a dark and stormy weekend so why not stay in with a cosy drink and a Halloween playlist and make your entry for our Carve Your PhD contest!
Carve the best representation of your thesis topic in pumpkin form and win the admiration of all, plus £25 book tokens! abdn.site/phD

For #OAWeek we had a wonderful event on how we in @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social can, using Open resources and radical hospitality, support #NewScots from scholarly backgrounds to stay connected with their field. We had great support from Grampian Regional Equality Council and Aberdeen City library

We're finish #OAWeek with a data horror story, looking at who owns public data vs. who controls public data. What happens when public goods are destroyed, and how we can fight back and protect our communal knowledge

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From disappearing journals, we turn consider what editors need to look for if they're thinking of moving their journal to a different (more open) publisher, for #OAWeek
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We're thinking about 'Who Owns our Knowledge' for #OAWeek
Francesca Soldati has looked at one way ownership comes up, writing about what happens to your work if the journal you published in vanishes
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Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍

Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team

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This International #OAWeek the theme is 'Who Owns our Knowledge?', so here’s a poll to see how much you know about who owns yours. Do you:

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jGN0y/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Read every word of your publishing contracts
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jGN0y/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Definitely give 'em a skim
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jGN0y/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Know the basic terms of your usual publishers
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jGN0y/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Sign on the Line

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Check it out, OSF has given their interface a nice little refresh. This update should make it a little bit easier for researchers to add their work. Find a quick and easy guide to the refreshed interface in the link below!

Exciting mail today! We've received our stickers for Carve your PhD!🎃 Starting this year, everyone who participates in the contest will receive a sticker certifying their PhD as SPOOKY!
Entries due on 30 October, and don't forget to include an address where we can send your sticker: abdn.site/phD

Did you know today is #WorldOctopusDay ?
We don't know much about the kind in the sea, but we can tell you more about the new research platform @octopus-ac.bsky.social
We had an ExlpORe session that demonstrates using Octopus to find collaborators, available here www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7CC...

We had a great time meeting our new postgraduates!
It was especially nice chatting with the PGR Society on helping PGRs feel at home in Aberdeen. If you haven't already, check them out. They have some great social events coming up, including a pizza party next week! www.ausa.org.uk/organisation...

If you're at the PGR orientation session today, come by and visit our stall! We'll answer all your questions about the library, publishing, or other Digital and Information Services. We also have freebies, including a few of the coveted Emerald Publishing Rhinos! Stop by and say hi, from 15:30!

Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/

It's the first day of October and therefore the start of the Halloween Season 🎃👻🍬

We're thrilled to announce another year of our Carve your PhD contest, where we challenge our wonderful PGRs to represent their dissertation topic as a Jack O' Lantern. Have Fun! Get Spooky!
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We think Open Research has a big part to play in improving research cultures at our universities, so we were very interested in this piece, co-authored by Aberdeen's own Ben Tatler, on the REF PCE pause. A lot of food for thought

Welcome back! It's the start of a brand new term here at University of Aberdeen! What's your favourite part of a new term? Cracking open a brand new notebook? Meeting a whole new crop of students? A new year's Carve Your PhD entries to look forward to 😜 (abdn.site/phD ). It's all starting! 🍂 🍁 👩‍🎓 🎃