Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award.
Here's a blog post for the Open Library of Humanities website outlining how we used the funding granted by the award to support our research culture activity relating to Open Access Books.
23.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Making Open Access Book publishing ‘Normal’
The OLH Open Access Award 2024 Awardee Report, authored by Tom Morley, Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the...
Great post from Tom Morley at Lancaster Uni Lib re. using an @openlibhums.org Open Access Award grant 'to facilitate a research culture in which #OAbooks publishing is part of normal, everyday practice'
Really practical, achievable steps to shift publication culture:
www.openlibhums.org/news/861/
23.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
📣 We are delighted that @lancasteruni.bsky.social are now supporter members of @openingthefuture.bsky.social! Find out more about the sustainable #OA book initiative at: lup.openingthefuture.net @tmorley24.bsky.social @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @jofitz.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social
05.06.2025 14:28 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by CALC Conference
Tom Morley - Making open monographs 'normal': open access monographs and open research culture
Another two #CALC25 recordings are coming out this morning:
1. Tom Morley of @lancasteruni.bsky.social describing working on culture change to Make Open Monographs 'Normal'
#LibrarySky #CritLib #Skybrarians
youtu.be/ELustLtuCSw
05.06.2025 07:36 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
It was great to meet you too and talk OA books @kjsanders.bsky.social!
24.03.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 ALN Conference 2025 Call for Papers: deadline extended to 21 March!!
There's a bit more time to submit a proposal for our next conference (18 June & 11 July 2025). Don't miss this excellent opportunity to present 😊
Further details at www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conferen... #ALN25
13.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Watch this space! Registrations for the 2025 ALN Conference will be opening soon ☺️ #ALN25
12.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I interview @theblochian.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social in the latest episode of @uksg.bsky.social podcast series for the #ScholComms #Community 🎙️
Find it wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧
🔗 linktr.ee/uksgpodcast
03.02.2025 12:30 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
And you can hear @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social interview Copim colleague @alittleroad.bsky.social for the same podcast series using the same link ▶️
03.02.2025 12:50 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Open Book Futures Project: An interview with Claire McGann
In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Claire McGann to discuss the Open Book Futures project, which aims to initiate a step-change in the ambition...
Join @clairemcgann.bsky.social and @tmorley24.bsky.social for the latest episode of Lancaster University Library's 'Talking around the library tree' podcast 🎙️
They discuss Lancaster's involvement in the Open Book Futures and celebrate what the project has achieved 🎉
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28.01.2025 09:55 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted to announce the first two contracted books in the Trailblazers initiative: 'A Degree of Modernism' by Simon James Hadfield, and 'Female Offending and the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire' by @craigstafford.bsky.social. Find out more via the LUP blog: bit.ly/Trailblazers-...
28.01.2025 14:00 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3
More "Knowing Me, Knowing UKSG" @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social interviews Lucy Barnes, Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers. linktr.ee/uksgpodcast
19.12.2024 14:44 — 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 4
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Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
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