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Great to present yesterday as part of #OpenAccessWeek 2025 about #ScenarioJournal - journals.ucc.ie/index.php/sc...

Thanks for the opportunity @ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social and great to hear about the range of student journals in UCC, the future of #OpenAccess is in safe hands!

Today's #OpenAccessWeek event at @ucclibrary.bsky.social was called "Unlocking Open Research: From First Steps to Lasting Impact" (libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/Eve...), focusing on PaPOR TraIL, the Navigating Open Research guide and checklists for research data management and OA publishing.

We opened #OpenAccessWeek 2025 at University College Cork Library with an event on our UCC Diamond Open Access journals: Pathways to your first publication – celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access Journals. journals.ucc.ie

Two great events next week at @ucclibrary.bsky.social ! All welcome! #OpenAccessWeek

Check out the upcoming events for Open Access Week 2025 at UCC: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4442839. An event by Sonraí also helps researchers with getting started with open research: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4437252. Registration is now open, but seats are getting scarce!

Launch - Navigating Open Research: A guide for Early Career Researchers Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research, a new national guide designed to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland. Inspired by similar initiatives in France and the...

Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research – A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Learn what the guide is and how it was created. 4 Sept, 1200. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4398826

Insight Series: Prof Dame Jane Francis With Prof Paul Vickers from Northumbia University

Join Prof Dame Jane Francis, Director of @bas.ac.uk and Chancellor of @universityofleeds.bsky.social, for a special Insight Series session, where she will reflect on her interdisciplinary research career.

📅 Thurs 17 July
🕚 11am - 12 noon (GMT+1)
🌐 Online

Free and open to all. Registration 👇

With support from the Irish Government's Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, we are pleased to announce a PhD Scholarship on the Irish Language to start in October 2025.
cardiff.ac.uk/welsh/course...
Application form: cymraeg@cardiff.ac.uk
Closing date: 28 June 2025

Please join us on 10 June! Registration is open.

Great to see this opening in July and worth a visit!

📚 #Libraries: it’s time to realise the full potential of #eBooks to support your communities! Join KR21's next webinar on 12 June (12h CEST) to hear inspiring stories from Finland & the UK with @annatuomikoski.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social
🎟️ Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The @irelibrary.bsky.social Advisory Committee has reviewed and redrafted IReL’s principles for negotiations with academic publishers: irel.ie/wp-content/u...

Does anyone know how this collaboration with #perplexityai will look like in practice? Will libraries be involved? www.uksg.org/newsletter/w...

Great reflection on the importance of libraries to society, now more than ever, from University Librarian at Maynooth University @cathalmccauley.bsky.social

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I needed this slide for the talk that I gave earlier this morning 🤭

Launch of the Ussher Bird Notes Digital Archive - Digital Repository of Ireland Join the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Library and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) for the launch of the Ussher Bird Notes Digital Archive! This event will provide...

Join us on Wednesday, 21 May, to celebrate Biodiversity Week with the launch of the @ria.ie Ussher Bird Notes collection. We are delighted to share that Usna Keating, Biodiversity Officer with Cork City Council, will launch the collection dri.ie/events/launc...

Anyone @ucc.ie interested in using games in teaching and engagement. Come along on 8th May and join the fun: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4369513 @ucclibrary.bsky.social

FAIR Data Forum - From Folk Tales to FAIR: Navigating Practice-Based Research in Digital Repositories Please note this is an online event which will take place on Teams. The Teams liink will be sent out in the calendar entry when you register and in a reminder email before the...

@ucclibrary.bsky.social FAIR Data Forum on 21st of March at 13.00 on Teams. "Folk Tales to FAIR: Navigating Practice-Based Research in Digital Repositories." by Roksana Niewadzisz on experiences of using the @dri.ie to archive outputs from her PhD. Everyone welcome : libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/lib...

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Our February link-out is hot off the press! Find out about disappearing data, AI junk science, inclusive library collections, the first Valentine's love letter, the fight against publisher package deals, how to show up for your students and much more at libfocus.com

Great to see another issue of Alphaville launched!

Coming up on 5th March, our Open Research Conversation on Open Research across different epistemic cultures.

We ask: How applicable are the accepted tenets of ‘open science’ to a broader range of research types?

Featuring @penders.bsky.social, @annayahprosser.bsky.social & Pieter Huistra

When a sleuth gets hired by a publisher: A Q&A with Nick Wise Nick Wise had a prolific start to his sleuthing journey. In July 2021, the fluid dynamics researcher started looking for tortured phrases in published papers, and has since had a hand in at least 1…

Interesting (and slightly scary) interview with Nick Wiser, new integrity office at Taylor & Francis: "I thought I was fairly cynical about the kinds of misconduct that goes on, but it turns out I am not cynical enough." retractionwatch.com/2025/02/18/n...

This is one to register for! This Thursday!

🚨 This Thursday (20 Feb, 13:00 CET): Webinar on ‘Ten Approaches to #RightsRetention in Europe’!
Come for a sneak peek of the @sparc-eu.bsky.social KR21 Project Retain II report, and stay for an exciting & insightful discussion.
🎟️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#RetainYourRights

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🚀 Are you passionate about research support, open scholarship, and academic publishing? We're Hiring! Join our growing & ambitious Library Team at ATU 📚✨
📌 Find out more & apply here: www.atu.ie/connect/jobs...
📅 Closing date: 12 noon, Friday 14th Feb 2025
#LISJobs #LibraryJobs @atu-ie.bsky.social

Three circles in different shades of green with the text: Good Metadata Practice for Open Access Books. Open Access Books Network and Open Institutional Publishing Association webinar. Sign up now. 20th March 2025, 15.00 GMT, 16.00 CET, 11.00 EDT.

Want to learn about metadata for #OpenAccess books but not sure where to start?

Join us for the Good Metadata Practice for Open Access Books webinar – hosted by OIPA & @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social.

📆 20 March 2025
🕙 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 11:00 EDT

Sign up for free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? After recent reporting that three UK universities had ended their transitional open access agreements with the publisher Elsevier, Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisi…

💥New: @tweeterbarr.bsky.social explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK.

#HigherEducation #ScholComm #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Get all the library news you need in our first link-out of 2025! Discover the #library that lends out people, read about welcome and wellbeing in #libraries and uncover the latest in open access, censorship and AI at www.libfocus.com