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We're really looking forward to sharing this work, having insightful discussions with research- and research-supporting colleagues, and prompting further debate around what openness looks like in AHSS research.

👀In a few weeks' time we'll be launching our NEW catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences - ~30 open research practices across AHSS disciplines that we've documented so far, with detailed descriptions, examples and resources.

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Together with @joedeville.bsky.social I will be giving the opening keynote at the @copim.bsky.social Conference 2026: What Next for Community-led Open Access Book Publishing?(26-27 February). Would be lovely to see you there, either in person or virtually: copim.pub/join-us-for-... #CopimConference

I'm so excited to see what this turns into. We put out a call for people interested in joining a community a few months ago, and we've now got 400+ researchers.

Qualitopia will be a space to build community, speak to policy, do metascience, and advocate for qualitative methods in their own right.

Open Research Week 2026 registrations are live and open! 🎉Once again we've teamed with our open research comrades at Edge Hill, Essex & Liverpool to curate a fantastic week: www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-researc... We're excited to get to learn from so many we respect and admire! Online+open+recorded

Thank you - we can't wait to share what we've been working on in early 2026

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On the 5th day before break the OA community gave to us: the launch of the @morphss.bsky.social project!
MORPHSS is working to push forward open research in the humanities and social sciences by understanding the unique needs of that community, and we can't wait to see what they accomplish!

Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge? // British Library This year’s Open and Engaged Conference aligns with the Open Access Week 2025 theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, by exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is…

Happy Friday! Recordings and slides are now available from Open and Engaged Conference 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" Here is the link to the collection of fantastic talks and presentations. #OpenEngaged doi.org/10.22020/dgz...

"The essay argues that the study of scholarly communication would benefit from attending to a “modal” sensibility—that is, a self-conscious sensitivity to the differences that different mediums make in understanding published works of scholarship"

By @jpooley.bsky.social

RESHAPED RESHAPED is our new online training platform providing free and accessible training resources designed to support the learning and development needs of humanities researchers.

Well worth checking these SAS Reshaped Humanities resources out. Courses and hubs available include Open Access in the Humanities, Public Engagement, Interviews as a Research Method, Digital Humanities, Going Freelance with a Humanities PhD and more. Free, but you'll need to register. 2/2

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Join us TODAY 16:00-17:30 CET for a special hybrid ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas session on research integrity and #reproducibility in the age of #GenAI with guest speaker @dingemansemark. The recommended (but optional!) preparatory reading is […]

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We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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#Booktalk tomorrow!
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, exploring how commons-based publishing can offer fair and ethical alternatives.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

One thing that's great about PRC is that it's leading to different experiments in re-structuring publishing processes based on community norms, so every approach is different. It's less reliant on openness as the dominant motivation and more on responding to how scholarly communities actually work.

Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social

#OPERASConference2025 | We are delighted to announce the dates for the OPERAS Conference 2026 in collaboration with the SCIROS project, under the theme:
<< One Network, Many Possibilities: Strengthening the OPERAS Community >>

Stay tuned for updates!

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀

Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...

This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:

opendivide.hypotheses.org/625

This is maybe the best news I’ve read today! A new journal on @openjournalsnl.bsky.social, and what’s particularly interesting is that this is a so-called data journal, in the humanities. #openscholarship

Diamond #openaccess 💎 funded by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social & @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.

“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.”

Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.

Really brilliant today hearing from @samuelmoore.org about the @morphss.bsky.social project and all the @oipassoc.bsky.social members discussing their work for the half-day online OIPA Symposium 👏

Thanks to all the speakers for their time and contributions, and attendees for the discussion! 🎉

The symposium has kicked off with @samuelmoore.org talking about @morphss.bsky.social and their various work packages on defining, cataloguing, encouraging and embedding open research practices in AHSS 🙌

#OAWeek #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #Humanities #Research

On December 4th I'll be in conversation with @hjoseph.bsky.social about my new book Publishing Beyond the Market. Part of the @authorsalliance.bsky.social and @archive.org book talk series.

Register here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

📣 Open Call: Share Your Content on the #OpenMethods Blog!

Have you come across some interesting content or methodology on Digital Arts & Humanities you would like to share? Have you published exciting content or contributed to inspiring venues? Get in touch!

ℹ️ openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call/

Thanks Domi!

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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