Publishing anniversary!🥳6 years ago we had the privilege of publishing 320 Rue St Jacques over at White Rose University Press. Translated and edited by Dr Wendy Michellat, this diary offers a day by day account of life in occupied France from Oct 1940. Give it a read! universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/m/1…

📣 Registration is open for our annual #OAWeek event, #OpenEngaged Conference! 🔓 Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship 🗓 Monday 21 October, in-person and online 🙌 Supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council and RLUK rluk.bsky.social blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola…

An encouraging article from LSE Impact Blog on #OpenAccess - it's great to see how opening research helps address the barriers to impact associated with paywalls, with OA work seeing higher citation diversity both geographically and institutionally.

On this day in 2020, we published Sheffield Castle, an #OpenAccess book from Prof Dawn Hadley and Prof John Moreland exploring the medieval castle in the context of urban regeneration. Check it out now on the White Rose University Press website! 🥳 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/m/1… Sheffield Castle

Across 2024, our friends at University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield and University of York all hosted events showcasing White Rose University Press. We heard about author experiences and the value of #OpenAccess, and looked to the future of academic publishing 📚 Read more here! blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024/0…

FREE EVENT - NO HIDDEN COSTS 😉 Join COPIM ([email protected]) LSE Library LSE Press to discuss the crisis in #HE & the future of #DiamondOA for books (in person & online) 📅 19 Sept 2024 ⏰ 17:00-18:30 (BST) 🔗copim.pubpub.org/pub/futureofdi… Drinks reception to follow the in-person event! 🍻

OpenFest 2024 starts in 1 week! Book your place now: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/e…

Happy #ReadABookDay ! 🥳Why not celebrate by checking out some of our #OpenAccess books from White Rose University Press - head to our website for some #reading inspiration: universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/

Here's some inspiration for #ReadABookDay - today is the 6 year anniversary of the publication of Oysters, Nightingales and Cooking Pots, a translated selection of French poet Tristan Corbière's works. Find the bilingual edition for free download here: universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/m/1…

#CheckItOut! The British Library is delighted to host its annual Open and Engaged Conference on Monday 21 October, in-person and online, as part of the International Open Access Week. This blog post includes registration details: blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola…

🌐 The ALPSP Annual Conference 2024 starts tomorrow!🌐 Don't forget to download the programme: custom-eur.cvent.com/060677e1067940… Or access at: alpsp.cventevents.com/event/2409AIC-… #alpsp2024 #ScholComm #Scholarly #Publishing

Upcoming webinar from Irish Open Access Publishers and Open Institutional Publishing Association - looks like there's going to be some really interesting discussions!

NEW WEBINAR: 'Open access book policies: The author’s experience' This event in the #PALOMERA Series explores what it's like to publish an OA book, & author experiences of policy mandates 📅Wed 2 Oct ⏰14:00-15:00 BST / 15:00-16:00 CEST 💰FREE to join 🔗 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/09/ope…

Our most downloaded thesis this month - and in fact, this year, with 22,348 downloads since January - is "Online Discourse in a Primary School Setting", from University of York. Access the full download in WREO now: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/960/

At University of Sheffield Library, we've collected the experiences of staff involved in creating & using Open Educational Resources (OER), empowered by our recent OER Policy. Hear about their experiences in our new collection of video case studies: sheffield.ac.uk/library/open-a… Taster below!

Great to see a fellow Open Institutional Publishing Association member presenting at #ALPSP2024 ! ALPSP

Day 2 at #alpsp2024 and we start off with a packed session: 3 months to go - are we ready for OA in 2025? ⏰ Chair: Ben Ashcroft (De Gruyter Brill ) Panel: Helen Dobson (Jisc) Chris Bennett (Cambridge University Press - Academic) Gaynor Redvers-Mutton (Biochemical Society)

📢🌐 ALPSP Awards Winners Announced at the Annual Conference 2024! Read more: alpsp.org/news-publicati… Thanks to our award sponsors: Publishers' Licensing Services PA EDitorial Ltd #alpsp2024 #alpspawards #ScholComm #Scholarly #Publishing

Just over two weeks to go until applications close!

I'm not sure what's most surprising - that today's national #GuacamoleDay, or that there's so much avocado-based research in #WRRO! The perfect opportunity to delve into some reading with a tasty guac snack...Check it out with the link below! 🥑 eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/search/arc…