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Book cover for Beyond the Visual: Multisensory Modes of Beholding Art edited by Ken Wilder and Aaron McPeake. It is a photo of a white tiled wall with light shining on it.

Beyond the Visual: Multisensory Modes of Beholding Art
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Beyond the Visual broadens the discussion of multisensory ways of beholding contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on modes that transcend a dependency upon sight

Examples of Mongolian calligraphy appear against a yellow backdrop

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Noce, Kim and Tseveendulam, U (2025) Light of the Heart’s Home – „Зурхний гэр”-эл. [Show/Exhibition]

Open page of "Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art" featuring artwork from Special Anti-Le Pen.

Drawing extensively from unknown or little-known works and previously unpublished documents from the artist’s archive, Lisa Lee's "Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art" explores the formative decade of 1984 to 1994. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204973...

Two carved Halloween pumpkins with glowing candlelight inside, placed on a reflective surface in a dark setting. The left pumpkin has an angry, jagged grin and slanted eyes, while the right pumpkin has a wide smile with vertical teeth and round eyes.

Happy Halloween! 🦇

May your day be scary and your publishing be #OpenAccess

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Selection of Fanzines from the London College of Communication Library collection

Library Services sharing their research on UALRO - UALRO is an online collection of the research outputs by UAL’s staff, you do not need to be on a researcher pathway to upload your research
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Illustration of a computer screen with symbols for volume, non hearing, non seeing and neurodivergence

Digital Accessibility and UAL Research Online - UAL Research Online exists to share knowledge with the widest possible audience. If it isn’t accessible, whole groups of people are excluded from engaging with that research.
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I wrote a post about open access licences for books, and who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences (e.g. CC BY-NC-ND) 👇

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The Digital Black Hole: What Happens When Academic Journals Vanish - And How to Protect Your Research If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? A more modern, academic version might be: if a groundbreaking study is published in a journal that then disappears fr...

We're thinking about 'Who Owns our Knowledge' for #OAWeek
Francesca Soldati has looked at one way ownership comes up, writing about what happens to your work if the journal you published in vanishes
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Conference Report - DARTS9 ‘Opening Doors: Empowering Librarians to conduct and support research’
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UAL Research Online Statistics 2024/2025 - a deep dive into the usage of research in our institutional repository, UAL Research Online
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UKRI Open Access Grant 2024/2025 - we invested in Open Access infrastructure, memberships and new models of more equitable Open Access – which means more free research for you!
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Day 1💫 Monday, 20 October | Open and Engaged 2025 British Library's Open and Engaged 2025 Conference

Happy #OAWeek! You can still register for #OpenEngaged and join us today at 13:30 BST.
Open and Engaged 2025: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” to explore the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.
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Stickers illustrating animals that incorporate orange lock open access logo. Parrot, bunny, snail, cat.

It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes

Welcome to Open Access Week 2025! The theme this year is Who Owns Our Knowledge? We'll be celebrating with a series of daily blog posts
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Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Ludevid i Llop, Mireia (2025) Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs

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New Featured Thesis: Ludevid i Llop, Mireia (2025) Memory As First Breath
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Check out our October gallery of research outputs:
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Uddoh, Rosa-Johan (2021) Practice Makes Perfect. [Show/Exhibition]

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New Featured Thesis: Lee, Jin Ah (2024) Drawing ‘New Maps’ Critical Cartography and Ethnographical Enquiry Through Drawing Practice
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Talking this morning about experimentation in open access through experimental publishing and community-led initiatives for libraries like @openbookcollective.bsky.social. #OpenFest25

Open Research podcast from the team @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

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Three black and white photocopied flyers for club nights held in Kings Cross

Check out our September gallery of research outputs:
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O'Reilly, Nina (2025) King's X Marks the Spot. SIG News, 4

Copim's concerns around the Online Safety Act 2023 Copim is concerned about how the UK's Online Safety Act 2023 puts up barriers to scholar-led open access publishing

"...there are concerns around the Act's restricting the publication of certain content online impacting on small open access presses, libraries with online catalogues, metadata aggregators, or providers of publishing software."

Figure 3.3 Examples of Kaomoji expressions (Source: kaomojikuma.com, n.d., organised by the researcher)

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New Featured Thesis: Xu, Danqing (2025) Character Creation and Promotion in Social Media Era China
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Check out our August gallery of research outputs:
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Harrison, Dominica (2019) Chado. [Art/Design Item]

Check out our July gallery of research outputs:
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fitzPatrick, Edwina (2025)​​See Here Now: Art in a Time of Urgency. [Show/Exhibition]

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New Featured Thesis: Martin, Jonathan (2024) The practice of 'creative block': making space for process
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Check out our June gallery of research outputs:
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Marenko, Betti (2025) The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350377288

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New Featured Thesis: Tam, Ana (2024) Applying Graph Theory to Conservation Documentation
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