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@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆
We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8
(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
UCL Postgraduate Students 📢
There are still spaces available on this week's 'Copyright for Postgraduate Students' online session 👩💻
Thursday 9th October 11am - 12:20pm 📆
Have a look and book here 👉 buff.ly/Dn1ZOPP
A huge congratulations to the winners of UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards 2025! 🎉🍾
Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy
UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC
Also, remember you can always get in touch with us at openscience@ucl.ac.uk if you have questions or want to find out more 💻
03.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you interested in the practice of Citizen Science but unsure where to begin? 🤔
A good starting point might be the resources on our webpages which can support the planning, development, and delivery of Citizen Science projects 📒
👉 buff.ly/mkGTQ7Z
September brought a new academic year and new open access books from UCL Press! Explore museum studies, urban childhoods, Victorian collecting, and more - all free to read and download!
📚 Start reading: bit.ly/4nUCUcz
#OpenAccess #UCLPress #AcademicPublishing
We're big fans of the UCL libraries 🫶
30.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A close-up of headphones resting on a monitor stand, with a softly lit background.
🎧 UCL Press Play is back this October with S2 of The Greatest Good!
Join world-leading academics as they explore topics like neurodiversity, climate justice, and more.
Be the first to hear about new episodes:
👉 t.co/WMCYqDjA7M #UCLPressPlay #Podcast #UCLPress
With only three weeks until Open Access Week 2025, we're getting excited ✨
Have a read of our latest blog post to find out how we'll be joining this year's conversation, including a webinar with UCL experts in Copyright, Rights Retention, Research Integrity and Citizen Science 💻
Or, you can contact copyright@ucl.ac.uk for a bespoke workshop 📒🖋️
25.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Several cards on a wooden surface, where the following are printed on each: 'using images', 'copyright and GenAI', 'including materials in dissertations', 'publishing contracts', 'social media and copyright', 'protecting your copyright', 'permissions', 'Creative Commons'.
Autumn is officially in the air, and so is copyright 🍂©️
Whatever way you are using text and images this term, UCL copyright team has a session to support you 💻
Take a look at the programme and register for a session 👉 buff.ly/o1y0g15
(Image AI-generated from Microsoft Copilot)
UCL graphic announcing KEF success: bold text reads ‘A leading university for knowledge exchange - 5 years in a row,’ with ‘knowledge exchange’ highlighted in green; UCL logo top-right; photo of the UCL Portico with ‘WELCOME’ banners at the bottom.
UCL has been rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange for the fifth year in a row in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL
#KEF5
@uclenterprise.bsky.social
The autumn equinox has arrived 🍂
For anyone embarking upon a UCL PhD in this new season, welcome to the community!
If you're wondering where to start with Open Science, check out this digestible and comprehensive guide: buff.ly/ya6CIQT
Why not save it somewhere to refer back to?
Also, watch this space for news about this year's award winners who are currently being selected, and the awards ceremony which will take place during International Open Access Week (20th - 24th October)🏆
17.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New blog post ✨
Our latest blog post has been contributed by Miguel Xochicale, Senior Research Engineer at UCL, who won an Open Science and Scholarship award in 2023.
Read on to find out about his project and how it has developed over the last two years 👇
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
Spotlighting UCL's bibliometrics support resources! 📊✨
With links to relevant courses and external resources, take a look at the webpages 👀
buff.ly/iBrUCLa
And why not book onto an upcoming training session 📝 buff.ly/gTi0tc6
UCL staff and research students 🔊
Need to write a data management plan? Not sure what UCL’s expectations are when it comes to managing research data?🗒️
The Research Data Management team are here to help ✨
Online and in-person training sessions are now available to book: lnkd.in/eqZtihzB
More green! Looks great 😊
05.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Find the RDR here: buff.ly/TOnaeu3
Read about the RDR and upload your research outputs here: buff.ly/8WH6Jaa
A screenshot from the UCL Research Data Repository which has the UCL logo in the centre near the top, under which is written 'Discover research from University College London'. At the bottom of the image, it is written '1,186,758 views' on the left hand side, '1,132,035 downloads' in the centre, and 'more stats' on the right hand side.
Another exciting milestone 📢
UCL Research Data Repository has reached over 1 million downloads 🎉
A fantastic achievement - huge congratulations to the staff and research students who have published and shared their research outputs. The repository team are very proud! 👏
It's new stationery and back to school month ✏️📒🍂
The perfect time to refresh yourselves with our training and support resources📝https://buff.ly/8XtyfIT
Have a browse, and if you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to get in touch!👩💻
Exciting update in our latest blog post 📢 UCL Discovery has reached 60 million downloads! ✨🥳
Read more about the milestone here :
The UCL Stores Service and Open Access Team plan to digitise a number of historic University of London theses from the 1930s and make them available in UCL Discovery ✨
To find out more, visit:
We're still going through the @britishlibrary.bsky.social July Scholarly Communications Newsletter over here - a treasure trove of news, resources and upcoming events ✨
Take a look 👀 us18.campaign-archive.com?u=03d177e620...
The deadline for this is tomorrow - Friday 22 August at 5pm⌛
Which means there's still enough time to submit a nomination or application! 💨
We've published a new blog post outlining the free training sessions we have on our website.
If you're a researcher in the #humanities interested in #publishing and #OpenAccess, there may be something useful for you in there!
👇
uolpress.co.uk/2025/08/navi...
UCL staff and students - have you seen our Research Data Management webpages? 🌐💻
With information about writing data management plans, complying with funder requirements, using the UCL Research Data Repository and more, it's worth having a browse 👀
www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open...
Celebrating 10M Yearly Active Researchers!
🎉 ORCID is celebrating a BIG milestone this week!
🤯 The number of Yearly Active Researchers just surpassed 10M!
Researchers, if you haven't signed in for a while, you might be surprised by all the changes we've integrated!
Check out your record now 👉 https://orcid.org/signin
#Researchsky
One week left to submit your applications and nominations for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards⌛🏆
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