Have you booked your place at the Festival of Open Research? It's taking place on the 28th June and is open to all staff and postgrad students! Find out more online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-of-…… Southampton Education School University of Southampton pic.x.com/4P8rkLsIxE

I'm pinning my #OA colours to the mast. Bronze OA is a distraction to engagement with and monitoring of a transition to OA, and in certain situations it's harmful. Read my Times Higher Education Campus article. Unpaywall @scopus Web of Science Dimensions timeshighereducation.com/campus/open-ac…

Are libraries ready for #DiamondOA? "They have to be!" says Margo Bargheer #OAI13 They play an important role in supporting diamond content and services financially, hosting software, and delivering supporting services.

For Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social, it is time for the higher education sector to think carefully about the global university rankings effects. To explain why, she responds to 3️⃣ simple questions in the #EUAExpertVoices article: bit.ly/3ME5Gx6 Loughborough University INORMS Research Evaluation Group CoARA

Really pleased to be at #HiddenRefFest with University of Southampton Simon Hettrick opening

#Librarians and libraries: we need your help! 🧵 It's time for us to update our subject classification system. We know that many academic #libraries and #universities get #DOAJ metadata as part of purchased discovery systems from Proquest Ex Libris and EBSCO. (1/3) #scholcomm

Reported potential salary increases required for skilled worker visas are likely to have an impact on the UK retaining foreign Early Career Researchers if they are not 1 FTE. So no EDI felxibility given by the UK government. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

The next Southampton ReproducibiliTea event will be a joint session with UKRN Southampton, discussing this UKRI report: ukri.org/wp-content/upl… University of Southampton staff and PGRs can register to attend here: forms.office.com/e/pBTiZSEy4M University of Southampton Library The Doctoral College 🫖☕️

Student Experience Directorate recognised for Customer Service Excellence! Library and Learning Services; Residences, Sport and Community Services; and Student Experience and Engagement have been awarded for user experience and continuous service improvement. @uni_southampton

Such is the state of my inbox, I missed the launch of the Jisc critical review of Transformative Agreements. If anyone is having a similar experience, here is the link: jisc.ac.uk/reports/a-revi…

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information barcelona-declaration.org launching on the 16 April 2024 #RLUK24

Our second library contribution to THE Campus has just been published, written by @Nicki_SotonLib. Nicki's feature article joins a piece by Steven Uros Vidovic on bronze open access. Watch this space for further pieces coming soon from our Library team! timeshighereducation.com/campus/unwrapp…

Open Research or Science doesn't have a single neat definition. In this Times Higher Education Campus article, I try to give an overview of what Open Research might be, or might not be, I'll let you decide. timeshighereducation.com/campus/open-re…

Starting soon: #RLUK24 roundtables: A review of transitional agreements with Kira Brayman Jisc Jeremy Upton University of Edinburgh Main Library Sarah Thompson🥾🐾🪴🇺🇦 Steven Uros Vidovic Librarians as prompt engineers & emerging skillsets for users with Liam Bullingham Oona Ylinen & Beth Burnet Uni of Essex Library

Don't miss out on this free webinar on Thursday 23rd May at 14.00 CEST. The webinar is hosted by LIBER Europe with speakers Kamel Belhamel🌐 and @katrinesundsbo from DOAJ and Cath Dishman from Liverpool John Moores University ⭐ The webinar will be recorded libereurope.eu/event/supporti…

I imagine there will be a lot of first guess Wordles today. Wordle 1,180 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We are looking to pilot a new publishing platform with SciFree AB and we are hiring to help us get things off the ground. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4074…

Had a great day at the UKRN UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social institutional leads away day in Cardiff, topped off by a fleeting visit to see the fossil dinosaur, Dracoraptor, on display in the Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales for the first time since I worked on it in their labs 10 years ago(!) when it was a fresh find.

Heading to #UKSG2025? Join us to explore barriers current publishing practices create for open research, and more importantly, potential solutions. Publishers, funders, advocates, and librarians, all are welcome! Don’t forget to add the session to your Whova app calendar.

Today I was lucky to add this Tom Leaper bronze to my collection. More importantly for me, the proceeds of the sale will be donated to installing a full sized piece of public art.