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Portrait of a Cleo Lake wearing a suit and patterned shirt, set against a black background.

October is #BlackHistoryMonth!

Join us as we celebrate with a series of exciting events under the theme 'Standing Firm in Power and Pride'. This year, we're thrilled to welcome guest speaker Cleo Lake for an inspiring conversation.

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/black-history-month-2025/

A cosy reading for pleasure area with lots of fiction and comfy armchairs

a selection of board games

Love fiction? Want to borrow some board games? Looking for a cosy place to sit? Come visit the Library's new Book Nook at the back of level two. Read, return, repeat and unwind. #readingforpleasure #fiction #boardgames

Search and Analyze by Researcher New: Search and Analyze by Researcher! We're excited to announce a major new feature: Search by Researcher , which allows you to go beyond individual...

Search by researcher in @altmetric.com

This new capability directly addresses a long-standing user request and provides a powerful, researcher-centric view of attention data.

We’re delighted that, so far this year, University of Bath authors have published two #openaccess long-form works with UKRI funding! 🎉

doi.org/10.1007/978-...

doi.org/10.4324/9781...

If you're hoping to publish your UKRI-funded book or chapter open access, please see UKRI funding for monographs:

Bring out the best in your research with a focused data management plan! Check out the guidance and templates available at library.bath.ac.uk/research-dat...

#ResearchData #DMP

Promotional poster for Researchers' Discovery Day, featuring enthusiastic attendees engaging in hands-on activities. The event is set for September 27th from 10am to 4pm with participants from the universities of Bath, Bristol, and Plymouth. The website for more details is www.futuresnight.co.uk.

Join us for a day of wonder, fun, and discovery in central Bristol!

Meet researchers from the University of Bath and the University of Bristol. Dive into hands-on activities, engaging games, and insightful short talks.

📅 Sat 27 Sept | 10am–4pm | Free, booking required.

www.futuresnight.co.uk.

We’re excited to announce the Overton 2025/26 grant opportunity!

Learn how your project could receive funding to explore, evaluate, or expand the use of policy data in research impact work.

A big thank you to STI-ENID for letting us launch this opportunity at their 2025 conference.

Kicking off the Autumn term with double the opportunity! 🍂
We’re thrilled to be launching  two transformative programmes designed to spark collaboration, innovation, and connection across our community: @uniofbath.bsky.social, @bristoluni.bsky.social, @cardiffuni.bsky.social and @exeter.ac.uk

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🚀 Thrilled to share that our paper "Navigating Environmental Trade-Offs in Evolving Small-Scale Wastewater Treatment Systems", co-authored by one of our librarians, made SSRN's Top Downloads list for the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) eJournal! 👍

Read it here: ssrn.com/abstract=529...

EMEA Learning centre Elsevier's learning centre features a calendar of upcoming live presentations and a library of on-demand webinars

Interested in learning to use SciVal and Scopus more effectively? Elsevier have just launched their new webinar series for autumn

www.elsevier.com/hubs/emea-le...

Want to know how to find evidence of impact for grant applications?

Possible changes for #REF2029??

* Contribution to Knowledge & Understanding may rise to 55% weighting
* PCE element likely to see reduced weighting
* Impact case studies expected to return to 2021-style format
* A new 4★+ rating for outputs is under consideration

Junjie Shen holding a certificate and plant standing infront of a Climate Action banner and University of Bath banner. Behind is a view across the lake on the University of Bath campus.

Huge congratulations to our colleague Junjie Shen, winner of the University of Bath Staff Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability! Junjie has led our Green Libraries initiative and developed a Power BI dashboard to track energy use by the Library —now being adopted by other departments.

Cartoon: attempting to capture a wild Librarian using a trap baited with a badly organized bookshelf

Programme for the I.F.W.H.A conference and Tours 1953. Print on whitish paper. Title reads Yorkshire v New Zealand, Wednesday 4th November 1953. Team names listed.

Did you know we hold the archive for the All England Women's Hockey Association!

www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...

To celebrate #NationalYorkshireDay, check out this programme from the historic match where Yorkshire faced off against New Zealand.

Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

A celebratory graduation scene showing a group of people in caps and gowns. One person in the foreground is smiling and hugging another. The background is softly blurred to emphasize the joyful moment. Overlaid text reads: “UNIVERSITY OF BATH — How much does the University of Bath contribute to the city and the region? Here’s what Oxford Economics found when it looked at how the University drove skills, investment, jobs, innovation and growth in 2023/24.”

For 60 years we've been proud to call Bath our home. Through our education, research and innovation, we boost skills, create jobs, widen opportunities and support inclusive growth in the city and beyond.

Find out more in this new report ⤵️

www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/ou...

#metascience2025 crowd, great opportunity!

group of graduating students and families posed in a group on the University of Bath campus. Black and white photo. 1970s fashions.

Congratulations to all our students who are graduating this week. Significantly less material in trousers and fewer hats these days than in this photo from the Archives.

Students with their families and staff from the School of Physics, July 1975.

Promotional graphic for an event titled 'Strengthening Open Access Through Collaboration: Building connections with OPERAS UK,' scheduled for July 21, from 14:00 to 15:30 WEST. The hashtag #NationalNode appears at the top left. The bottom features the OPERAS UK logo twice. On the right, there is a photo of people working at a table with laptops, notebooks, and office supplies.

Join @jisc.bsky.social online next week to explore how organisations can deepen collaboration to tackle shared challenges in #OpenAccess

We have an exciting panel of speakers lined up for you!

🌐 Strengthening through collaboration
📅 21 July 2025 | 10:00–12:00 BST
🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren...

A group of people seated around a table in a meeting or discussion setting. The background includes large windows with an abstract design. On the left is an orange square with 'Jisc' written in white font. On the right there is a magenta section with white text Digital research community group

Join @cbthomson.bsky.social @helenclare.bsky.social on 9 July 11-12 BST 🌐

Explore how stories can be a really powerful & effective way of engaging people outside of research communities with the outputs & processes of research!

Find out more and register 👇

research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

Vol. 4 (2025) | Edinburgh Open Research Edinburgh Open Research | ISSN 3050-2934 (Online)

Missed out on the Edinburgh Open Research Conference, or just want to rewatch the talks? No worries - we have you covered! Recordings, slides and abstracts are all available on the EOR journal:
journals.ed.ac.uk/eor/issue/vi...

Ben sitting at a desk whilst working on a laptop.

👋 Meet Ben, our summer intern!
He’s working on boosting the quality of our Altmetric data by increasing DOIs in Pure. To support this, he’s built a Power BI dashboard that helps us track and analyse the data for better planning.
#BathInsights #UniversityofBath #employability #internships #altmetric

The theme has been announced for this year's International Open Access Week - we're excited ✨

The University of Bath has been ranked 132nd in the QS World University Rankings 2026, rising 18 places from last year. This result places Bath firmly within the top ten per cent of universities ranked worldwide, reflecting its growing global reputation for research and education excellence.

How to spot suspicious scientific papers that use image duplication or AI generated text, are produced by paper mills or published on hijacked journals?

This toolkit brings together 27 free resources ⬇️💡

Let’s talk equity in open research! Join us at 2pm on 19 June for an interactive session with two of our library experts. We’ll explore how to break down barriers and build a more inclusive research culture. Book now: www.bath.ac.uk/events/addre... All welcome! No cost.

#EquityinResearch #UniOfBath

♻️ Help Bath leave no trace! 🌍

Join the campus effort to collect & recycle student leftovers for sustainability and local charities. Staff can volunteer on 17-20 June.

#LeaveNoTrace #Sustainability #UniOfBath
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