British Library Open Research
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Open Research at the British Library. News from teams including scholarly communications, data services, DataCite consortium, and shared repository.
#RecommendedRead from Software Sustainability Institute: Keeping Track: Version Control for Reproducible Research: software.ac.uk/blog/keeping-t…
#CheckItOut! Open Repositories 2025: 1.Slides for all presentations: zenodo.org/communities/op… 2.Opening keynote: youtube.com/watch?v=2tnPsz… 3.Closing keynote: youtube.com/watch?v=HL62C3…
#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! Library Juice Academy. Creative Commons Licenses and Copyright: From Concepts to Practice. 4-31 August 2025. Online. Charge applies: libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/34…
#WebinarWatch: OASPA. Open access funders and enablers outside the library: fresh perspectives and lesser-heard voices. [1 hour watch]: oaspa.org/events/open-ac…
#RecommendedRead from Software Sustainability Institute: MetaGreenData: Making Code More Sustainable, One Metadata File at a Time: software.ac.uk/blog/metagreen…
#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards. 10-12 September 2025. In-person. Charge applies: alpsp.cventevents.com/event/2509AIC-…
#CheckItOut! OpenPlato is OpenAIRE’s flagship learning platform for Open Science, Research Data Management, FAIR principles. It has a trainer's guide titled 'Trusted publishers for my research: decoding good practices & overcoming predatory publishers': openplato.eu/blocks/catalog…
#WebinarWatch: Museum Data Service. -Our vision for research. [4 minute watch]: youtube.com/watch?v=Xf-Stc… -Our vision for museums. [4 minute watch]: youtube.com/watch?v=KrP1q3…
#RecommendedListen: The Open Book Futures Project: An interview with Claire McGann. [16 minute listen]: youtube.com/watch?v=82EZQO…
#RecommendedRead from @Jisc: Supporting community-led research and heritage infrastructure: jisc.ac.uk/case-studies/a…
#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! Electronic Research Notebooks in action: Join the @Jisc September DRC meet-up: research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! csv,conf,v9. 8-11 September 2025. In-person. Charge applies: csvconf.com
#CheckItOut! OpenPlato is OpenAIRE’s flagship learning platform for Open Science, Research Data Management, and the FAIR principles. It has a self-paced course 'Open Access publishing: overcoming the challenges and busting the myths': openplato.eu/blocks/catalog…
#WebinarWatch: cOAlition S. Pricing framework to foster global equity in scholarly publishing: webinar. [55 minute watch]: youtube.com/watch?v=a8eUPe…
#RecommendedListen: Knowing me, Knowing UKSG: Scholarly comms journeys. An interview with Lucy Barnes, senior editor and outreach coordinator, Open Book Publishers. [16 minute listen]: soundcloud.com/uksg-podcast/2…
#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. 3-5 September 2025. Hybrid. Charge applies: peerreviewcongress.org
#CheckItOut! Knowledge Futures has announced that it is "initiating a wind-down of some key initiatives": knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-0… -PubPub Legacy can be used until 31/12/26 -Knowledge Futures is shutting down its centrally hosted PubPub Platform service at the end of 2025
#WebinarWatch: Capturing Creativity Week. Collecting Emerging Formats at the British Library. [30 minute watch]: data.bathspa.ac.uk/articles/media…
#RecommendedRead: Bolick, J., Emmett, A., Greenberg, M. L., Peterson, A. T. & Rosenblum, B. (2024) 'Planet of the APCs: A decade of progress and setbacks in open access', Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 12(2). doi: doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.….
#RecommendedRead from Software Sustainability Institute: Reflections on Research Software Engineering in Africa: software.ac.uk/blog/reflectio…