UCC Library Research Services

UCC Library Research Services

@ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social

Supporting Open Research and FAIR Data at University College Cork

263 Followers 214 Following 13 Posts Joined Dec 2024
4 months ago

Our Team will be represented with three colleagues! Looking forward to it!

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4 months ago

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!

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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.

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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

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4 months ago

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

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4 months ago
Pathways to your first publication – celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access Journals Join us for an in-person seminar dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access journals on Tuesday 21 October 2025, during International...

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!

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6 months ago
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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

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9 months ago
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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 👇

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9 months ago
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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

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9 months ago

Please join us on 10 June! Registration is open.

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago
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📚 #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...

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago
Wiley and Perplexity announce new AI search partnership - UKSG With the agreement, Wiley becomes Perplexity's first education partner, creating new pathways for educational institutions to interact with trusted scholarly resources through AI search.

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

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9 months ago

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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9 months ago

Great slide! We hope the talk went well.

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago
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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...

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10 months ago
Gamifying Learning and Engagement in Library Services and Beyond - Day 2 Join us for Day 2* of the library games event where we will dive into the world of gamification to explore how it could be used in teaching, learning, and engagement within...

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

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1 year ago
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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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1 year ago
Six images clockwise from top left: Advice for discouraged sailors written under a painting of a boat on the sea; illustration of a woman with two ducks; latin text above an illustration of a man kneeling in front of another man with a sword raised over his head; a black and white photo of three seated children; a collage of people sorting files, a building and a large room of wall cabinets and a body and arm shelving books

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

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1 year ago

Great to see another issue of Alphaville launched!

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1 year ago
Select tickets – Open research across different epistemic cultures: principles, practices, dis/junctions – Google Meet The conceptual framework of open research has historically been shaped around quantitative, confirmatory research informed by a...

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

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1 year ago
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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...

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1 year ago

This is one to register for! This Thursday!

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1 year ago
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🚨 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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1 year ago
Image announcing that ATU Library are hiring a Research Support, Scholarly Communications & Publishing Librarian with an animated megaphone and including the ATU Library logo.

🚀 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

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1 year ago
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...

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1 year ago
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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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1 year ago

Work with us!

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