UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science

@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆

We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8

(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)

Promotional image for UCL Press open access textbooks, featuring a background of bookshelves filled with various books, overlayed with the text "Are you adopting a UCL Press open access textbook?" and logos for Open Access eTextbooks and UCL Press.

We love hearing how our Open Access textbooks are being used in classrooms around the world 🌍

If you’ve adopted one for your course, let us know-your stories help us support more learners!

💬 DM or tag us
🔗 Browse free textbooks: t.co/6sxfFy6HF0

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A huge congratulations to the winners of UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards 2025! 🎉🍾

Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy

UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC

A student sitting down and reading a book.

In celebration of the recent East and South East Asian Heritage Month, students and staff across have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

UCL graphic announcing KEF success: bold text reads ‘A leading university for knowledge exchange - 5 years in a row,’ with ‘knowledge exchange’ highlighted in green; UCL logo top-right; photo of the UCL Portico with ‘WELCOME’ banners at the bottom.

UCL has been rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange for the fifth year in a row in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).

Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL

#KEF5

@uclenterprise.bsky.social

Hello and welcome new students! We provide services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos #WelcomeToUCL

Centenary meeting audience listening to eminent neurologist, Sir Ernest Gowers in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. 1960 (ref: QSA/12363)

Teaching a group of medical students in a classroom. c.1930 (ref. QSA/12364)

Arthur Dickson ['Dicky'] Wright (eminent neurosurgeon) on a ward round with doctors. 1962 (ref: QSA/1879)

Dr. Macdonald Critchley teaching on the ward. No date. (ref: QSA/1871). Critchley was a British neurologist and former president of the World Federation of Neurology. In 2013, the weekly undergraduate teaching round at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square, London, was named after him - the Critchley Round.

This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.

This week we focus on #teaching, whether it’s in lecture theatres to students or the public, in classrooms or on the wards.

More images can be viewed by searching “teaching” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/4wr4963n

2025 RIC Fellows Appointed We are delighted to announce the appointed fellows to visit UCL to conduct research on topics using UCL’s archives, rare books, records, and museum collections.

We are delighted to announce the newly appointed Research Institute for Collections (RIC) Fellows to visit UCL to conduct research on topics using the university's archives, rare books, records, and museum collections. Read more here:

Object-based Learning workshop and book launch Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.

Object-based Learning workshop and book launch
15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

A display case in Senate House containing items from UCL Special Collections.

Coins and print materials in a display case.

A variety of print materials in a display case at Senate House Library.

Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.

Explore our Zoology collection after hours! Join us on a half-billion-year journey through the story of life on Earth at our upcoming museum late on 12 September as part of #HeritageOpenDays. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/zoology-after-hours.html

Explore our Egyptology collection after hours! Join us on a 350,000-year journey through the story of Ancient Egypt at our upcoming museum lates on 13 and 19 September as part of #HeritageOpenDays. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/egyptology-after-hours.html

Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL - Senate House Library Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL, also showing at Senate House until 31 August 2025, celebrates 60 years of collecting independent publishing at UCL.

See publications of iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions. Visit Senate House for the ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’ exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections until 31 August.

ICIL information card with event title and date and headshot photos of Geraldine Hunwick, Ian Johnson, Rosaleen Williams, Holly Smith, Sarah Aitchison, and Erika Delbecque.

🟠 #RLUKICIL | Towards equity & inclusion through special collections & archives | 20 Oct

This seminar will hear case studies from @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social on how collections & archives help research libraries meet EDI goals

🎟 bit.ly/RLUKICIL

In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month, students and staff have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

Text against a colourful background which reads, “Broken, Burnt, Buried. Ritual lives of objects in ancient Egypt. 22 July 2025 to 16 May 2026.”.

Find out more about what the practice of breaking everyday objects tells us about the lives of ordinary people in ancient Egypt. Come explore our display. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

UCL Press Play UCL Press Play is a new initiative presenting documentary videos and podcasts featuring aspects of UCL’s sector-leading research, and casting light on the contribution UCL makes to society.

🎬 UCL Press Play presents The Greatest Good — a powerful series exploring Jeremy Bentham’s radical legacy & UCL’s founding ethos. Watch Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty and tune into podcasts on queerness, history & ideas. 🎧 uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl... #UCLPressPlay #TheGreatestGood

This year's theme for South Asian Heritage Month is Roots to Routes, exploring the rich journey of growth, and the evolving connections we make through generations. Share your book recommendations here: ucl-global.libwizard.com/f/SouthAsian...

Wasps are complex and extraordinary animals but are often misunderstood. Our new exhibition and immersive VR installations invite you to experience this hidden world. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps

Thrilled to work with @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social researchers to communicate their incredible work on wasps! Many thanks to @hannahcornish.bsky.social, Alice Holloway, @ucllccos.bsky.social wider team, @uclnews.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for all their support 🐝

Interested in being one of 21 portraits at our photography exhibition next year? We are looking for volunteers to represent your subject of study while showcasing your student society, in our libraries or museums. forms.office.com/e/Pjdi1e2B8E

A wasp nest on a curved brown leaf.

See the life of wasps as master architects, pest controllers and pollinators. Discover the delightfully relatable social goings-on inside our virtual nest at our upcoming exhibition from 25 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps

UCL Press celebrates 10 years of award-winning open access publishing This June, UCL Press marks a decade of open access publishing and over 19.5 million global downloads.

This June, we'll be celebrating 10 years of #OpenAccess publishing. Find out more : www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllccos.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @laws.ucl.ac.uk @artshumsucl.bsky.social

A person holds up a photograph of a scene from the movie "Batman Begins", aligning it with the actual filming location visible in the background.

A person holds up a photograph of a scene from the movie "Starter of 10", aligning it with the actual filming location visible in the background.

A person holds up a photograph of a scene from the movie "Our Kind of Traitor", aligning it with the actual filming location visible in the background.

A person holds up a photograph of a scene from the movie "Killing Eve", aligning it with the actual filming location visible in the background.

🎬 UCL’s Bloomsbury campus keeps stealing the spotlight

Batman Begins (2005) - Medawar Building
Starter for 10 (2006) - Main Quad
Our Kind of Traitor (2016) - Gustave Tuck LT
Killing Eve (2022) Gustave Tuck LT

Follow the link and see even more filming spots in Portico Magazine: bit.ly/44gJBz6

Students sat at the Student Centre next to the Prejudice in Power installation.

Want to receive a £15 voucher? Take part in our workshop on 30 May and share your thoughts on the current exhibition at the Student Centre, Prejudice in Power: Contesting the Pseudoscience of Superiority. forms.gle/AFfSkhwPf928...

UCL’s Portico with flowers in its foreground.

We aim to drive development in knowledge and confidence on copyright across @ucl.ac.uk communities. Find out more about our Copyright Literacy Strategy 2024 – 2027. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

Object Based Learning Open Day Visit this unique facility dedicated to teaching and sharing using the outstanding collections of UCL and UCL East communities.

Visit UCL Culture Lab, a unique facility in UCL East Marshgate dedicated to teaching, sharing and exhibition-making using UCL Collections. Join us at the Object Based Learning Open Day on 19 May.

Students sat at the Student Centre next to the Prejudice in Power installation.

Prejudice in Power takes a critical look at @ucl.ac.uk’s history of eugenics and its ongoing impact through the structural inequities eugenic thinking left as a legacy. Find out more about the digital showcase and exhibition here. www.ucl.ac.uk/prejudice-in...

A student working on a laptop against a vibrant orange background.

We are excited to announce the launch of the new digital home for @ucl.ac.uk Museums and Collections. Find out more and explore the new site for all things museums, programmes, exhibitions and collections. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...