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Today is Autistic Pride Day, so we wanted to highlight the work of UoA's own Centre for Autism and Theology research group, who promote inclusion of autistic people and perspectives in Christian worship. Check out their (mostly open access) work here: abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/organisatio…
24th-28th of June is #RabbitAwarenessWeek which promotes good health in house rabbits. We'd like to make you aware of the completely free research tool, 🐰 ResearchRabbit which you can use to map the available literature on a research topic. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
For our final Pride post we wanted to highlight Pride In STEM 's collection of resources for LGBT+ folks working in STEM, which include histories and educational resources as well as practical guides. prideinstem.org/resources-2/
July 13-28 is the #FestivalOfArchaeology so we'd like to showcase the fantastic #ScienceCommunication of our Archaeology department in this excellent video from the Northern Picts project that shows how the ancient past sits alongside our modern world: vimeo.com/212736108
Great article on moving a journal to The Open Library of Humanities. If you're an editor thinking of moving away from commercial publishers, or an author wanting to publish somewhere that supports your discipline more than their profits, get in touch and we can provide advice and support.
We're celebrating #SouthAsianHeritageMonth so we want to highlight some of the amazing #OpenAccess resources on South Asian heritage. Check out the South Asian Open Archives on JSTOR for a fantastic collection of documents from across South Asia jstor.org/site/saoa/?so=… South Asian Heritage Month
One interesting way to open up learning for all is MOOCs (massive online open courses). For #InternationalCatDay we'd like to share University of Helsinki 's MOOC 'Me and My Cat'. Check it out to learn more about cat care, and see how MOOC's work courses.mooc.fi/org/uh-veterin…
We'll soon be welcoming students back to class, so we wanted to share another open teaching resource: OERs. These are an especially good solution for online/transnational courses where sharing rights for traditional e-texts can be an expensive nightmare unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…