MORPHSS

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Cover of the Journal of Embodied Research, Volume 8 Issue 1 (2025), showing a figure draped in tulle lying on the floor of an empty, decaying tiled pool.

New Issue Out Now!

Explore the Journal of Embodied Research (JER) 8.1, featuring new work in #videographic scholarship and embodied research.

Includes 4 #videoarticles and 1 #videoessay

jer.openlibhums.org/issue/1724/i...

TOMORROW at 11:30 CET, don't miss the very first #FridayFrontiers of the Autumn, entitled "Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software: The archeoViz Portal for Spatial & Statistical Exploration of Archaeological Data" 👀

➡️ Register: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...

Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS) OxFOS is an annual event for Oxford University researchers, academics, staff and students covering developments in open access and open research.

Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference

Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.

Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos

Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2025 announced Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) launched the fourth OLH Open Access Award 2025, an initiative dedicated to advancing open access in the humanities and to knowledge …

Congratulations to the winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2025! 🎉🏆

• Free to Publish, Free to Read: Diamond Open Access Workshops in Malaysia, Pakistan, and Singapore
• Open Philosophy
• Data as a Story: A Humanities Dataset Exhibition

Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/857/

This is a really exciting journal (re)launch at @openlibhums.org working with @the87press.bsky.social ! This poetry journal is doing such important work to address the massive under-representation of writers of colour and entrenched inequalities in literary publishing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky #poetry

ATRIUM is delighted to invite contributions from partners and beyond to #CAA2026 for Session 38 ‘End-to-End Reusable Archaeological Data Workflows: Spotlight on the Demonstrator Model’, to be held in Vienna!

⚠️ Deadline 26th October
🔸 Read more atrium-research.eu/news/caa-202...

Ever wondered why you don't hear more about engagement in arts and humanities research? Esther Lisk-Carew and I talk about how co-production is often business as usual for these subjects and the typical outputs can be more accessible than standard publications. Listen in your podcast app.

Bright orange poster with bold white and black text announcing the COPIM conference. Capitalised white text on the right hand side reads 'SAVE THE DATE'. Event titled 'What Next for Community-Led Open Access Books?' will be held in person and online on 26–27 February 2026 at Loughborough University Campus in London

📣 Save the date!

Join @copim.bsky.social to explore the future of community-led #OA books at #CopimConference2026

🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University, London (plus online)
📲 More info, including registration details, to follow next month!

I have an op-ed out today in @resprofnews.bsky.social introducing my new book on the commercialisation of open access publishing.

Our #OpenFest25 presentation from last week is now available to watch. Enjoy @kjsanders.bsky.social and I talking about the spirit of experimentation in open research through our work with Radical Librarians Collective, Copim's Experimental Publishing Group, and @openbookcollective.bsky.social.

The session recording from #OpenFest25 which includes our brief intro to the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences) project is now available, with our talk beginning at 34.50 in the recording: shu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

In this morning's #OpenFest2025 session on building diverse networks, we heard how openness is being explored as a mechanism for inclusivity in research. So much to follow-up on!
RDA Ambassadors www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-a...
Global OER Graduate Network go-gn.net
MORPHSS morphss.hcommons.org

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

We'll also share the recording link when it's available

If anyone missed our talk at #OpenFest25 but would like to find out more about MORPHSS - our new project to surface & support open research in the arts, humanities & social science, do take a look at our webpages, including planned project deliverables:

morphss.hcommons.org/project-deli...

Some kinds of data creation can be massively expensive - open data can improve equity in terms of who can do research.

But some kinds of data are easier to share than others- do open data mandates favour STEM over AHSS, where things can be trickier?

@drbeth.bsky.social at #OpenFest25

OpenFest 2025 OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

Join us TOMORROW as part of #OpenFest2025

🌐 Towards an equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem
📍 Online via MS Teams
⏰ Weds. 3 September (10.00-11.00am)

Book your place 👉 buff.ly/jTIYWPV

Coming up this Thursday, 10-11am UK time.

Session details and booking link here: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Research environments and publishing environments are often segregated from one another, but you can't have healthier publishing environments without (significantly) healthier research environments. That's why I'm super excited that @morphss.bsky.social is underway!

New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org:

"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."

#OA #AHSS

Center for Effective Global Action - BITSS Catalyst Funding 2026 BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

📢 Want to run a research transparency workshop at your home institution? Looking for funding for an open science project?

Apply for BITSS Catalyst funding by September 30! cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...

We're looking forward to introducing the MORPHSS project at #OpenFest25 on September 4th, in a session on "Building diverse open research networks & communities."

Sign up to hear more about our plans to surface & support open research practices in the humanities & social sciences - details below:

With @morphss.bsky.social we're trying to build a case for openness more as experimentation with different knowledge practices rather than focusing on the end point of sharing stuff transparently. It's about how communities can be open to less-reified ways of working, collaborating, sharing, etc.

Follow the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences) project at @morphss.bsky.social for updates on this & other components:

How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another ‘Distributed peer review’ of grants makes process more than twice as fast — and includes some cheat-prevention measures.

Cool trial of distributed grant application review. We're trying something similar for journal publishing as part of @morphss.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We were going to use Pubpub for @morphss.bsky.social until they announced their $3,500 fee. I completely understand the financial predicament they're in, but pivoting to more professional efforts won't work because it undermines the community-led approaches that gave Pubpub its original value.

New website for the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences) project, co-delivered by the universities of Cambridge, @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Coventry, & Southampton:

We are pleased to announce we have a shiny new website with @kcommons.bsky.social and fresh new logo! MORPHSS is ready to roll.

Please share. 😊 @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social

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