Open Research, University of Sheffield

We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨

Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors Learn how publishing in data journals can increase awareness of your research

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors
(@n8research.bsky.social event, online - Tue, 10 March, 1-2:30pm) www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi...

Someone recommended this lovely experimental open access book at the #CopimConference and I added it to my training session on OA books today developmentserver.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remembe...

We at White Rose University Press are equally delighted to congratulate the winners and look forward to guiding them through the publication process.

Their achievement marks an exciting milestone in their academic careers, and we are thrilled to support them as their work reaches a wider audience.

UKRN has published the 2025 Open Research Programme Survey, offering a detailed picture of open research practices across UK universities.

The report highlights progress, remaining barriers, and differences across roles/disciplines.
News and report:
ukrn.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/02/25/u...

Red background with black and white figure of a variety of women circus performers, for example on an aerial rope and horse. Text reads: Women in Circus Symposium, Call for papers, Monday 23 March, University of Sheffield

Call for papers now OPEN! 📣

Join The National Fairground and Circus Archive in a one-day symposium to celebrate the role of women in circus through history 🎪

Want to present your research at @sheffielduni.bsky.social? Keep reading 👇

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The line-up looks fab! www.midlandsinnovation.org.uk/orw
@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

This is also the first instalment of a cross-over collab with @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social and the Research Culture Uncovered Podcast! #FriendOfThePod #HEpodcasters #ResearchCulture

Black and white photograph of Vesta Tilley in a long, frilly maxi dress and matching hat. Recoloured in aqua blue and light pink.

Been inspired by drag performers, past or present?

We'd love to hear your Queer takes on our collections this month!

Explore more stories in The National Fairground & Circus Archive, held at @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social 🎭

sheffield.ac.uk/library/spec...

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🧠 Question for the hive mind: now that bot and crawler activity has rendered views and downloads mostly meaningless, is anyone thinking about how best to track and measure actual impact? For data especially, but resources and outputs more broadly. For our own repositories, we've contacted... 1/3

Why does open source hardware matter? The UKRN primer explains: osf.io/preprints/os...

“Like open source software, it can be used, studied, modified & reproduced for any purpose.” — Pen-Yuan Hsing (@nacly@floss.social)

We’ll discuss #OpenResearch at the UKRN Conference 2026.

#ukrn2026joinus

If you’re interested in keeping up with our ongoing Open Science Hardware efforts, we just added an RSS link….subscribe in any RSS reader!

opensciencehardware.org/news/feed/

Link to feed is on top menu on homepage.

New free tool, LIDS, "allow[s] researchers to create bespoke, low-fidelity synthetic datasets... which they can use to both anticipate the structure of the ONS LS data extracts that they would like to request for their projects and to develop test data analysis scripts prior to accessing these."

Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.

In this sftp article, I ask some of the questions often left out of #OpenScience discourse, spaces, and events—especially how #inclusion can become depoliticised, and what true allyship really means. magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-poli...

"Scientific literacy has long been a cornerstone of higher education but the open research movement has redefined what it means to be literate as a researcher" with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social & @drcpennington.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/if-p...

New from @batoolmm.bsky.social, 'Metascience for whom?': "The system is not broken... It is designed to produce certain kinds of knowledge, funded in certain ways, published in certain journals, using certain vocabularies... That is the trap that metascience should avoid."

UNESCO's model for Open Science, with four quadrants each with icons representing the components. The centre of the circle reads "Open Science". The top quadrant, Open Scientific Knowledge, includes Scientific Publications, Open research data, open educational resources, open source software and source code, and open hardware icons. The right quadrant, Open Science Infrastructures, includes virtual and physical icons. The bottom quadrant, open engagement of societal actors, includes citizen and participatory science, scientific/volunteering, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding icons. The left quadrant, open dialogue with other knowledge systems, includes local communities, marginalised scholars, and indigenous peoples icons.

There's still time to submit your contribution for the Open Research Conference, 2026 where we will be exploring the new roadmap, and UNESCO's model for OR!

The deadline has been extended to the end of day, 27th of February, learn more here:
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

📣"The pilots offer an important first step towards a more coherent, evidence-based understanding of some open research practices", but "Improving interoperability and metadata quality across repositories, publication platforms, and submission systems will be essential."

History and Archives in Practice 2026 | Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research

Registration for #HAP26 is now OPEN!

Join us on the 16 April in Sheffield as we explore ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’

With @royalhistsoc.org @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy & @uoscollections.bsky.social

Register today: bit.ly/4roSsqU

Data Stewards Network - Data Stewards Network co-creation workshop February 2026 Data Stewards Network events planning 2026

🥳 Today marks the 1st birthday of our Data Stewards Network! Last year, we ran a mix of expert-led workshops & informal networking sessions. To continue the momentum into 2026, we held a co-production workshop to prioritise future activities. Full write-up here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

RDM Weekly - Issue 032 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Happy Love Data Week! 💘

Issue 32 of RDM Weekly is out!

➡️ Creating a Data Sharing Community @harvarddataverse.bsky.social
➡️ Affording Reusable Data @nature.com
➡️ README Checklist @christophscheuch.bsky.social
➡️ Project Management Tools
and more!
#rdmweekly

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Hurrah! My paper on the development of UK University RDM policies over time is now live.

I realise it's a bit of a niche interest, but if RDM and open science is your bag, do take a look.

liberquarterly.eu/article/view...

Where’s the Data? Love Data Week and the Journey Home for Our Research | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

It's day 2 of Love Data Week! 💕

Today’s blog post is by Dr Nick Owen from UCL's Advanced Research Computing Centre, about the vital role of Data Stewards supporting researchers to maximise centralised data storage infrastructure.

Have a read now 👉 buff.ly/mSWZDco

#ResearchData #UCL #LoveData26

💘📊 Love Data Week is February 9–13, 2026!

Theme: Where’s the Data?

Get involved:
• Submit an event
• Adopt-a-Dataset
• Browse events worldwide

Toolkit (stickers, templates, certificates): myumi.ch/Dr1Zy

Announcing the dates for this year's London Open Science & Scholarship Festival! 🎉

Monday 20 - Friday 24 April 2026 🗓️

Find the full list of 13 partners and more details on the latest Open@UCL blog post buff.ly/eSmjBWJ

And make sure to keep following for updates!

#LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience

We'll be working with colleagues from UKRN, UKRI's MRC, @bristolunilib.bsky.social, @edopenresearch.bsky.social, Glasgow, and Leicester, together with experts from @plos.org and @openaire.bsky.social, and stewarded by Josh Brown from Open Research Ecosystem Consulting.

We're excited to be part of this @ukrepro.bsky.social project working with the Medical Research Council to develop and test the feasibility of indicators for monitoring research data sharing practices and assessing the FAIRness of MRC-funded data: www.ukrn.org/2026/02/03/m...

ITT The Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice Project A new research sector‑led project has been launched to support UK research organisations in implementing open access (OA) for long‑form publications. The Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice Proje...

📣 INVITATION TO TENDER | Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice Project

RLUK, SCONUL @armauk.bsky.social @ukri.org are inviting tenders for project to articulate challenges & opportunities for UK research orgs in responding to evolving #OA long-form publishing landscape

Full #ITT: bit.ly/4rlAS70

The @ads-update.bsky.social Archeology Data service (ads) are looking to recruit a Digital Archives Assistant.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/digi...

#digipres #digipresnorth #archivejobs

An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...