UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship

Fantastic opportunity in a brilliant team ✨

Have you seen the Open Science case studies on our website yet?

These provide examples of how Open Science can support career development and progression ✨

Grab a cuppa and have a read through 👉 buff.ly/pAmDzVx

Fantastic! Congratulations ✨

🥁July issue of the BL's Scholarly Communication Newsletter is out!
📚Read it here us18.campaign-archive.com?u=03d177e620...
#ScholComm #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM #OpenScholarship #DigitalScholarship #DataScience

Black and yellow artwork showing flowers, grass, wasps and an outline of a wasp nest. Text reads 'World of Wasps'.

Explore our exhibition at night, listen to talks from @ucl.ac.uk wasp experts, and take part in relaxed paper-making activities led by artist Peter Ayres. Book now for 7 October or 4 November. www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticket... #GMZWasps

A classroom, in which several people are sat around two desks with laptops in front of them. Some are looking at their laptop screen and others are looking at each other, as though they are discussing something.

A few months ago, UCL hosted its first ever Replication Games📝

💡Three teams working together to reproduce the results of a published paper in one day - how hard could it be?

Read on to find out how it went 👉 buff.ly/OpHgiTk

#Reproducibility #OpenScience #ResearchData

💎"Scaling up Diamond Access Journals", a session from the Open Science & Scholarship Festival, is now available on @uclpress.bsky.social website 👉 journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/media/

Whether you missed the session or wanted a reminder, it's worth taking a look and saving for reference📝

Building Better Minds: Neuroarchitecture and the Future of Inclusive Design In the second episode of our Mental Health and Wellbeing mini-series, host Jade Hunter sits down with Professor Hugo Spiers, Dr Fiona Zisch, and Isabelle Charval, the trailblazing team behind the wor

What happens when neuroscience meets architecture? In ep.2 of our Mental Health and Wellbeing mini-series, we speak to the trailblazing team behind the world’s first international centre for neuroarchitecture and neurodesign.

Listen 👇https://bit.ly/40ojtzD

09. Open Accessibility | Compass This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...

NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭

The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small diamond #OA publishers to improve #Accessibility in #Publishing 💡

✅ Accessibility knowledge base
✅ Planning models
✅ 6 chapters on principles, law, standards, strategy

🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

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🔊 Calling UCL staff and students - nominations and applications for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards are still open ✨

🗓️ Deadline: 5pm Friday 22 August

Read more or start an application/nomination today 👉 buff.ly/7w7bNG3

✨Final write-up from the Open Science & Scholarship Festival!

💡'Authorship in the Era of AI' panel discussion covered many areas - from trends in AI use in scholarly writing, to issues with false accusations of AI use.

If you missed it or want a reminder, read it here 👉 buff.ly/cRWnZnP

Different Types of Open Access

🧩Gold, Green, Diamond, Bronze... What are the different types of Open Access? What is the role of preprints in Open Access publishing?
This blog post breaks it all down. Read the guide: 🔗https://buff.ly/Ai3TOnh

#Preprints #OpenAccess #OpenScience

Happy Birthday CardiffUP! 🎉

New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

@uolpress.bsky.social have recently launched a brilliant free online training course relating to Open Access in Humanities, and it includes a useful video explaining the challenges in Open Access. uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

👀 New write-up from the Open Science & Scholarship Festival!

💡The Creativity in Research and Engagement session explored visualising data, sketchnoting, silk scarves and tea towels – the possibilities are vast and varied ✨

Read more 👉 buff.ly/3GMB0SN

#Creativity #Research #OSFest25

The #OAWeek 2025 theme, "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" challenges us to reflect on who has access to education & research, how knowledge is created & shared, where it has come from & whose voices are recognized. More here: sparcopen.org/news/2025/th... & resources on #OAWeek here: www.openaccessweek.org

💡UCL staff or students needing to write a #DataManagement plan - this workshop will summarise policies regarding research data and teach you to write a plan which is structured and effective. Spaces still available!

🗓️ Friday 11 July

⏰10am -11.50am

🌐 Online

buff.ly/A2r1ipw

Looking forward to attending a few of these!😊

Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship on 15 July

🎉 Just one month to go!
Join us at the UCL Festival of Digital Research on 15 July 🧠
Keynotes, demos, workshops & more — plus lunch & drinks 🎓🍽️

📍 Open to all
🔗 buff.ly/3qkE98A
#UCL #ARC #DigitalResearch #AcademicEvents

📢 Participant Recruitment – UCL Researchers

Hi UCL friends! I’m Azra, doing my dissertation on how UCL researchers use RDM services.

If you're a PhD, Postdoc, MRes student, or teaching staff who’s used them, I’d love to chat! (30 mins, online).

#UCL #RDM #DissertationStudy #LibraryResearch

Join @crossref.bsky.social for a watch party and informal gathering next Wednesday afternoon to wind down the final day of the Metascience 2025 conference!

Citizen Science #Spotlight

Why not take a moment and listen to the birds!
🐦🦜🦉

Dawn Chorus is a fantastic #Art and #CitizenScience project that allows people to record & upload their local bird songs and provide important data for #biodiversity research.

dawn-chorus.org/en/

This is fantastic! 👏

The theme has been announced for this year's International Open Access Week - we're excited ✨

📢 If you missed any of the Open Science & Scholarship Festival or want reminders of session contents, we've published a blog post pulling together links to write-ups and resources, as well as some recordings📝We will share further write-ups soon, so do continue to watch this space 👀 buff.ly/T68SrDq

Making Space on the Shelves: #OpenAccess Books in #OpenScience

The #OA movement has extended its reach from articles to books. Join us for a fruitful discussion with @kjsanders.bsky.social & @kirahopkins.bsky.social on why this matters.

📅8 July 2025
⏰1:00 PM
🌐Online

🔗Register: shorturl.at/GLam6

UCL staff or student needing to write a data management plan for a grant application or project proposal? This training session will teach you how to write a plan which will meet the expected standards as well as introducing best practice when managing #researchdata 📑🗓️ buff.ly/VCKalVS

A final look into our fantastic event last week. Here are some snapshots from our panelists.
#10YearsofUCLPress

What a brilliant resource!

UCL staff and students - there’s one week left to submit your feedback about your copyright confidence and which areas of copyright you would like to know more about.
It’s very short (only 4 questions) and there’s a prize draw for a £25 love2shop voucher ✨🛍️ buff.ly/tQQrjAp