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Best practices for APC waivers - Research4Life These guidelines offer a checklist of considerations for publishers to set and implement a policy around waivers for article processing fees.

Daniel - R4L is having an impact across the globe and are aiming to bridge the transition form access to open access including working on best practice for waivers for authors www.research4life.org/apc-waivers/ #ORW2026

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Nick - empowerment - wikimedia can be a bridge between academic and global communities and between open research and open education. Can be powerful in terms of human curated knowledge and hopefully inform ethical AI, information and digital literacy. #ORW2026

Research Professional Futures Project (ARMA) arma.ac.uk/summary-of-t...

Report on the EOSC* Winter School 2026 zenodo.org/records/1883...

*European Open Science Cloud research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/str...

Small European publishers and the transition to #OpenAccess publishing: a 2025 snapshot doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors Learn how publishing in data journals can increase awareness of your research

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors
(@n8research.bsky.social event, online - Tue, 10 March, 1-2:30pm) www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi...

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative Only Good Antibodies is an open science partnership between science stakeholders at institutions, commercial manufacturers, research funders, publishers, and reagent databases. ...

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative (Wednesday 4 March, 14:00 - 15:00)
libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465347

In 2026, the city of Leeds celebrates 400 years since it received the first royal charter, giving the city the right to self-governance.

To celebrate this occasion, the Libraries are taking to Wikipedia. And we need your help.

"How do we reduce all barriers, such as financial, technical, and cognitive, so that more people can access, understand, rerun, and build on research?"👇

Open Research Week: Friday Fika A relaxed session hosted by the Open Research Week team. We look back on the week, pick out some interesting questions that our presenters didn’t get to, and discuss how to...

Open Research Week: Friday Fika (Friday 6 March, 14:00 - 15:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465366

Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too. Presenter: Dr Kathleen Gregory from Leiden University. As a social science researcher working in scholarly and science communication, Kathleen’s research focuses on scholarly...

Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too (Friday 6 March, 10:00 - 11:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465365

Why 'open' matters: the importance of global knowledge Two talks focusing on two different organisations that are helping to make global access to knowledge more open and equitable. Nick Sheppard and Professor Chrissi Nerantzi from...

Why 'open' matters: the importance of global knowledge (Thursday 5 March, 15:00 16:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465364

It makes sense to be open: experiences from an Historian In this session, we'll hear the first hand experiences Dr. Sarah Fox, an Historian whose work would not have been as effective if they did not embrace open practices. Dr. Sarah...

It makes sense to be open: experiences from an Historian (Thursday 5 March, 13:00 - 14:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465362

Making archives and special collections open Join us for a look into how digitisation is transforming access to unique and often hidden collections. This session will highlight two projects to explore the tools, challenges,...

Making archives and special collections open (Thursday 5 March, 11:00 - 12:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465350

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative Only Good Antibodies is an open science partnership between science stakeholders at institutions, commercial manufacturers, research funders, publishers, and reagent databases. ...

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative (Wednesday 4 March, 14:00 - 15:00)
libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465347

Bitesize Replication Games Join us for Bitesize Replication Games, a hands-on online workshop where researchers test their skills by attempting to reproduce a key result from a published paper. In a...

Bitesize Replication Games (Tuesday 3 March, 14:30 - 16:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465346

Many researchers use code, how many share? TADA is a wizard way to enable you to improve code sharing Dr Joel Pick (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Edward Ivimey-Cook (University of East Anglia) are two of the co-authors of TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing. All the...

Many researchers use code, how many share? TADA is a wizard way to enable you to improve code sharing (Tuesday 3 March, 10:30 - 11:30) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465297

What is the public value of openly accessible research? Open Research Week 2026 Opening Keynote Nearly twenty-five years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative laid the foundation for greater openness to the scholarly record, we still know little about how the public...

What is the public value of openly accessible research? Open Research Week 2026 Opening Keynote (Monday 2 March 2026,14:00 - 15:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465239

Some great events next week, all online and open to all👇

See below for individual session links👇👇

We at White Rose University Press are equally delighted to congratulate the winners and look forward to guiding them through the publication process.

Their achievement marks an exciting milestone in their academic careers, and we are thrilled to support them as their work reaches a wider audience.

Catalogue of #OpenResearch Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences catalogue.morphss.work

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Success for Leeds alumni in Early Career Publishing Prize Congratulations to our alumni winners of the prestigious prize.

Success for Leeds alumni in Early Career Publishing Prize

The Libraries extends huge congratulations to the three alumni named as prize winners:

library.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

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Why every scientist needs a librarian Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.

Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open

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

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"UKRN Publishes Findings from Pilot Projects on Automating Open Research Indicators".

This was a fantastic collaboration, working w excellent colleagues at University of Leeds (@nickshepp.bsky.social, @sallydalton.bsky.social) and partner universities. Read more below:
www.ukrn.org/2026/02/12/u...

In 2026, the city of Leeds celebrates 400 years since it received the first royal charter, giving the city the right to self-governance.

To celebrate this occasion, the Libraries are taking to Wikipedia. And we need your help.

400 for 400 Leeds Wiki Campaign The Libraries need you to celebrate a city-wide celebration!

400 for 400 Leeds Wiki Campaign

The Libraries need you to celebrate a city-wide celebration!

library.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

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