Loughborough Open Research Team

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Want to use LEGO in your research?! Make sure you follow the LEGO Fair Play guide:

www.lego.com/cdn/cs/legal...

Next week's line-up - and still time to sign-up! www.midlandsinnovation.org.uk/orw
@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

Developing Citizen Science Masterclass: Vienna - LIBER Europe LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s research library community.

Interested in learning how research libraries can contribute to citizen science and participatory research? Join LIBER at their second masterclass!

Learn more and sign up here - libereurope.eu/event/develo...

A color photo of a black woman with dreads with highlighted tips reading an open book in the Getty library. She wears a black shirt with a burgundy jacket with yellow embroidered trim and bold, multi-colored statement necklace. Both of her hands hold the book on each side atop a wooden desk tabletop. There is a pile of three books in front of her. Behind her is a wooden wall displaying various art magazines and publications.

A color photo of two women in the Special Collections Reading Room reviewing archival materials. The woman on the left has gray hair pulled back and appears to be mid-speaking wearing black round eyeglasses, a striped navy blue, yellow, white, and black scarf, and a black-and-white top with blue jacket. The woman on the left holds up a black and gray transparency sheet which the woman to her right is looking directly at. The woman on the right also wears round black framed eyeglasses and wears a white shirt with a black blazer jacket. You can see a variety of archival materials laid out on the table for viewing though some are out of focus and blurry.

A color photo of two women doing conservation work in a museum. There is a sepia toned drawing with a matted frame on the table. The central figure wears a navy blue with white polka dots dress. She looks into a large microscope that is positioned over the artwork. She has short brown hair and both her hands rest on the table with the artwork in front of her, one hand on each side of the artwork. The woman to the left has short brown hair, wears eyeglasses, and is wearing a long-sleeve navy blue shirt. You can see her profile as she leans forward slightly with her hand positioned on the matte of the artwork pointing to something in the drawing with a small tool in her hand.

A color photo of a Getty Graduate Intern giving a museum gallery tour. She stands to the left with her hands outstretched, her left hand downward palm forward and her right hand lifted up with showing the palm of her hand. There is a wooden doorframe behind her. To the left are a row of stone bust statues, there are about 5 or 6 visible. The one closest to her hand appears to be a man with draped textiles on his shoulders, a beard, and with short hair. Behind the bust statues are a row of wooden windows with open shutters.

women in GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums)

Image of a wooden surface with wooden letters spelling: Hello February, and white flowers

February Copyright Reads are up! And yes, I know we are in March...explanation in blog post:

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/03/...

Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-85, is now open at the Getty Center!

Hear directly from the trailblazing artists who helped shape a new vision of Black life and liberation. 📸

#BlackArtsMovement #Photography #BlackArt

Next week's line-up - and still time to sign-up! www.midlandsinnovation.org.uk/orw
@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

Next week's line-up - and still time to sign-up! www.midlandsinnovation.org.uk/orw
@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

Loughborough Researchers, did you know that you can get funding for publishing Open Access monographs?
www.lboro.ac.uk/research/sup...

#WorldBookDay2026 #OpenAccess #OAFunding #UKRIOpenAccess @ukri.org @lborouniversity.bsky.social

We've got full-text books in our Research Repository.
repository.lboro.ac.uk/search?itemT...

#worldbookday2026 #ResearchRepository #Books #LoveLibraries @lborouniversity.bsky.social

A sign on a building that says 'architecture' written vertically in blue, with an orange octopus plushie hanging off of it.

Curious to know what's up in architecture? repository.lboro.ac.uk/Civil_and_Bu...

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@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

The line-up looks fab! www.midlandsinnovation.org.uk/orw
@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

Did you know that a good dataset can get you a publication? Check out this data paper from Richard Hodgkins: hdl.handle.net/2134/31305490

#opendata #datapaper #weatherdata #lborouni #loughborough #ukweather bsky.app/profile/lbor...

📢 Open Research Week is coming...

16–20 March
📍Online

Packed with keynotes, panels and case studies, this year’s event is bigger than ever, offering valuable sessions for the whole research community and those who support it.

👉 Programme & bookings: buff.ly/JCANngY

This looks like it should be a great event, and we appreciate you making it hybrid so we all can come 😊 Especially looking forward to the keynotes!

UoA researchers, be sure to check out the list for events relevant to your work!

An image of a gold horse on a Chinese inspired red background with gold text reading Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate!

#YearoftheHorse #LunarNewYear

Two BGS staff members stand next to the landslide demonstration experiment at Kirkby-in-Ashfield library.

We're at the Nottingham Festival of Science & Curiosity today!

Pop on over to Kirkby-in-Ashfield library as we show you how landslides work with our live demonstrations! Entry is free.

#NFSC26

Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out!

'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century'

Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395

red background with hearts and white text reading: Happy Valentine's Day

Love + IP = the perfect match.

Explore the hidden world of copyright, trademarks, and GIs behind Valentine’s traditions.

💘 New post out today!

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/02/...

An example area with the dataset, symbolised by BGS Lexicon code and labelled with formation names.

Quaternary UK offshore data digitised for the first time.

The dataset will help users, particularly those in the offshore renewables sector, and can be used for reference when completing site investigations.

Learn more:
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/quatern...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Galloping into Lunar New Year: Horse Imagery in Medieval Manuscripts. A manuscript illustration of a knight in armor jousting atop a horse that is clad in decorated red and gold armor.

A medieval manuscript illustration shows a man and woman riding a white horse adorned with red and gold ornaments. The man, wearing a green robe and red hat, gestures with his hand. The woman, in a red garment with a veiled headdress, sits behind him. The scene is set against a backdrop of trees and a blue sky, with a text above introducing the horses featured in this post as selections from Getty's collection of European manuscripts, presented in honor of the Year of the Horse.

🐎 As we welcome the Year of the Horse, Graduate Intern Xin Yue (Sylvia) Wang is here to share a few fascinating images from Getty’s collection of medieval manuscripts.👇

Clear Skies and IEEE announce landmark integrity screening partnership - Research Information Oversight service provides reporting on journal submissions, peer review standards, and editorial workflows

Clear Skies and IEEE announce landmark integrity screening partnership

www.researchinformation.info/news/clear-s...

Oversight service provides reporting on journal submissions, peer review standards, and editorial workflows

An image of hands in blue latex gloves holding a Munsell Soil Colour Chart so that the cores (also in shot) are described visually, as accurately as possible, in colour and structure.

BGS is part of an international team that has discovered the 1st detailed evidence of long-suspected, hidden, freshwater aquifers.

The discovery comes from analyses of cores recovered during an International Ocean Drilling Programme off the coast of New England.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/extensi...

Love data? Then license it!

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/02/...

#lovedataweek #copyright #opendata #openresearch @lborolibrary.bsky.social

Global Media Cities 2025: a new release by our @gawc.bsky.social research network ⬇️

and what copyright considerations you need to take into account:

doi.org/10.17028/rd....

Have a look at how you can share your data at Loughborough University:

www.lboro.ac.uk/research/sup...

Four panel comic on Love your data week

💚📊 It’s #LoveYourData Week!

Charlie the Cat and Copycat have teamed up to remind us that research data needs love and copyright considerations are essential!

Put them together and you get… a library‑made love story. 💘📚 (a thread)

#LoveYourData #ResearchData #Copyright #LibraryLove