Open Research, University of Sheffield

Research Data Stewardship Network Join the Research Data Stewardship Network at the University of York

Data stewardship encompasses a broad range of activities in the management of research data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to reuse 💾

If you play a role in data stewardship at York, or are the designated ‘data person’ in your area, then consider joining our new network 👇

Logo of White Rose University Press featuring bold navy text and a gold emblem. Below, it lists the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York.

For the second day of #12DaysOfWRUP, we’re sharing a bit about our story and mission.
WRUP was founded in 2016 by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to publish high-quality, open access academic work. In 2026, we’ll be celebrating our 10th anniversary — 👀 this space for details!

Welcome to the 12 Days of White Rose University Press! 🎉

Throughout December, we’ll be sharing facts, stories, and insights about WRUP — our books, people, and our mission to make research open and accessible. Join us as we celebrate another fantastic year of open research and publishing.

Calling all digital research technical professionals and researchers across the UK!

We are once again teaming up with @ukri.org to host the DRI Retreat in Manchester in 2026.

Save 23rd-27th March in your diary and sign up for notifications:

www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Late to the game sharing this: Stage 1 of #CALC26 CfP is out and we're accepting submissions
The Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference is for anyone with research, projects, perspectives on all things using critical practice in libraries and information studies
sites.google.com/view/calccon...

Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

Universities want new business models, not just discounts.

As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Great initiative...

First issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research:

doi.org/10.36399/f74...

Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought:

Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share

If you use #Qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all […]

Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care? The N8 Research Partnership launched its Rights Retention statement in January 2023. Now nearly three years later and with the sector in the midst of a financial crisis, the...

Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?

leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818

Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm

With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge

@akadidymus.bsky.social

Tenzing will also gently encourage best practices for Acknowledgments sections, by modeling them in its outputs.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.

@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!

New resource by the ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group: the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model, a tool to assist institutions assess their practices & capacity to evaluate data contributions.

View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

⚡We are recruiting🌟

We are looking for a fixed-term Digitisation Officer and a fixed-term Digital Engagement Officer (with possibility to extend) to work in our Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team!

Find out more info here 👀👀➡️ tinyurl.com/4epkcfp2

Higher education institution (HEI) libraries in the UK undertake a variety of interlibrary loan (ILL) and document supply operations, against a current background of increasing budgetary pressures. This article considers the foundations in so‑called library privilege exceptions in copyright law that underpin the long‑standing practice of ILL, aiming to address recurring issues and questions around what is permitted within the legislation, and which limitations apply. The focus is on addressing the ILL situation as it exists for non‑profit UK HEI academic libraries, including looking at some perceived ‘grey areas’.

The latest Opinion from #UKSGInsights journal: Andrew Johnson from the University of Sheffield Library - "Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector" dub.sh/55gEiGy

Everyone needs to take the Creative Commons Personality Quiz. #OAWeek

I'm CC BY and besties with all OA articles x

Ha!

This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25

It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself.

We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)

New Open Research in Practice case study:

The Feminist WonderLab Collective: An ECR space to support feminist practices and Open Scholarship by Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Research Associate
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Read about their work on our wiki 👇

To celebrate #OAWeek, book onto one of our training sessions!
✨21st Oct: OA for books & chapters
✨21st Oct: Demystifying open research I: authorship
✨23rd Oct: Bitesize OA webinar (REF&UKRI policies)
✨23rd Oct: Copyright misconceptions
✨23rd Oct: Demystifying open research II: publications
Links 👇

FAIR² for research software

📢 Sheffield researchers! The Research Software Engineering team is running its FAIR4RS training programme again this year: learn how to create better, FAIR-er software for your research. Find the full programme and register for the kick-off seminar on October 16th 👇 rse.shef.ac.uk/training/fai...

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The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day #WDPD25
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!

If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres

Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector | Insights

Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

Jobs & opportunities | Dryad news Dryad is a non-profit, mission-driven organization that envisions a world where all research data is openly available and fully re-used. Our multidisciplinary, fully curated open data publishing platf...

Come join the team at Dryad! We're seeking a Data Curator to assess data and metadata submissions and work with authors to meet FAIR data guidelines. Open to remote candidates in the UK.

blog.datadryad.org/jobs/

Working with and Managing Sensitive Research Data This FREE one-day workshop will focus on the challenges and complexities of working with sensitive data.

The @n8cir.bsky.social is hosting a free 1-day workshop (23 October) on working with and managing sensitive research data - inc. speakers from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social and DARE UK. Data stewards from N8 institutions can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...

📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇