Was not expecting to have to draft a first ever data management plan today…thank goodness for the amazing Jo Fitzpatrick and her unparalleled knowledge of all things RDM!!

Am so excited!! It’s gonna be epic…#libpmc2023

Top presentation tip…when seeking to look professional remember to close the door on all the family’s pants drying in the background 😂😂😂 #libpmc

So thrilled to see Jo Fitzpatrick on this list. So, so well deserved for an inspiring and dedicated colleague!

Librarians need to recognise and feel confident in their own expertise. There’s a lot of imposter syndrome in the system. That Really resonates here @bakedbeanpizza #libpmc

We should love our values and we can bring about meaningful, powerful change. Love this!!! #libpmc

Librarians are really well placed to be researchers and advocate and campaign for social justice. I wonder if we always realise this about ourselves and our profession 🤔 #libpmc

Devouring health studies like a favourite snack…very suitable analogy for #libpmc

Andrew Barker and Elaine Sykes reflect on Lancaster University's shift to an open research culture researchinformation.info/analysis-opini… Lancaster University Lancaster University Library #scholcomms #librarians #publishers #researchers #funders #openscience #openaccess #openresearch

I mean if working with ScholCommTom now @scholtom.bsky.social wasn’t enough of an inducement, you could be OA’s own John McLain. How could you refuse??

A new Open Access policy for Long form outputs including monographs, book chapters & edited collections will come into effect on the 1st of January 2024. Our Open Research team is holding three online Q&A sessions (6,8&11Dec) so please make sure to sign up!bit.ly/3MFvA4e

It’s always a bit strange to promote things you’ve done yourself but here’s my latest rant kindly shaped into something coherent by the lovely people at UKSG insights. insights.uksg.org/articles/10.16….

VACANCY: Work with us as Open Book Futures Library Relationship Manager! Join a busy and cheerful team working hard to support a transition to equitable #OAbooks Part time 0.5FTE, fixed-term until Dec 2025. Deadline 18 January: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Always nice to see your name in print. Many thanks to Jisc for turning my rantings into something much more coherent!

Absolutely thrilled to be involved in this - it’s a great opportunity for ECRs to be able to publish their monographs Open Access!

It was great to see our Trailblazers OA Monograph initiative featured in UKSG eNews today. There is much more to come on this, too uksg.org/newsletter/uks…

BLOG: ‘How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books' 🤔 The latest post from COPIM (not posting here anymore) is a community resource which offers support for building assessment criteria for collection development policies 📜 copim.pubpub.org/pub/building-a…

Soooo excited about this!! The greatest conference in the greatest city of them all!

📢Calling librarians! Come and join Trailblazers with Lancaster University Library University of Liverpool Library Salford Uni Library to combine #OA publication with author masterclasses and support the next generation of ECRs. Contact [email protected] to join Trailblazers, or visit the LUP blog for more