#ExeterUni researchers – we renewed our Read & Publish agreement with Rockefeller UP @rupress.org for 2026-2027
Publish #OpenAccess without APCs when you are corresponding author in Journal of Cell Biology; Journal of Experimental Medicine; Journal of General Physiology
rupress.org/journals/pag...
#ExeterUni PhD Students📢
the 2026 Exeter Open Research Awards are open for submissions!
Doctoral students from University of Exeter are invited to submit case studies of best practice for open research in their discipline🏄♀️
Submit by 29th April 2026
Find out more: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ope...
Brilliant news to start the week🥳🎉
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org confirmed it has secured support from enough libraries through Subscribe to Open #S2O to make its eight subscription journals fully #OpenAccess throughout 2026 - without APCs🙌
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Pleased to have just renewed with @aip.bsky.social #Physics new AIP Fusion model🎉
#ExeterUni researchers can now publish #OpenAccess in all AIP journals hybrid + fully gold #OA without publishing fees, when you are corresponding author
Find our more: publishing.aip.org/introducing-...
#GW4 researchers📢
Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter
GW4 Open Research Prize 2026 is open for submissions.
Have you used open practices throughout the research process to make research more accessible, transparent, reproducible?
Apply by 20 Feb: gw4.ac.uk/orp/
@gw4alliance.bsky.social
Did you know Gw4 Open Research Week runs from 20–24 April this year? 🔒
Cardiff University is taking the lead for this celebration of open research practices.
Find out more here:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
Are you passionate about making research more accessible, transparent & reproducible? The GW4 Open Research Prize is now open!
This year, we have three new prize categories:
✅ GW4 Open Research Prize
✅ Early Career Researchers Prize
✅ Research Enablers Prize
Enter by 20th Feb: gw4.ac.uk/orp/
UKRI #OpenAccess policy for monographs, book chapters, edited collections: reminder, they must be #OA within 12 months
#ExeterUni researchers, contact us about OA options for your UKRI-funded books, we can help you to comply👍
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ope...
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
https://www.europesays.com/uk/742721/
OpenScholar is an LLM that performs scientific literature reviews using a database of 45 million open-access articles.Credit: dpa…
#ExeterUni ECRs and PGRs📢 – we still have spaces available for this in-person workshop next week 'Getting Published with The Royal Society' @royalsociety.org
Wednesday 11 Feb 14:30-16:00 on Streatham campus
Register online to secure your spot: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/761c5f...
#ExeterUni ECRs PGRs – ‘Getting Published’ an interactive in person workshop with The Royal Society Publishing @royalsociety.org to help you navigate and demystify the publishing process
Weds 11th Feb 14:30-16:00
Streatham campus, Exeter
Register online:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/761c5f...
Great news #ExeterUni researchers - from 2026 our @plos.org agreement now covers all PLOS journals. Publish #OpenAccess without publishing fees when you are corresponding author.
Full details: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ope...
📘 Want to demystify open access book publishing? The Open Access Books Toolkit provides a clear, step-by-step guide that debunks common myths!
🔗 Explore here: oabooks-toolkit.org
#openscience #oabooks #openinfrastructure
"All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic."
dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:
openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...
Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence.
buff.ly/7radka2
A purple banner with the International Open Access Week logo and the words 'Open Access Week 2025, October 20-26, 2025, #OAWeek' next to an image of a person staring up at a starry night sky with the OA padlock symbol in the stars.
OA WEEK: Next week (20-26 October) is #OAWeek!
At the OABN, in collaboration with @copim.bsky.social , we've gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA books or open infrastructures & shared the details in this post:
👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/i...
How can individuals foster enhanced research culture, and institutions embed it meaningfully?
Exploring this, GW4 Re-Culture is now open for applications!
This creative, skills-based programme explores how we can build a flourishing research culture across GW4 universities: buff.ly/zbS1QJP
RECORDING: the recording of our recent webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors', organised with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency, is now available to view and share:
📺 youtu.be/vVf9GspOs8g?...
#OAbooks #OpenAccess @operaseu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Thanks @iansample.bsky.social at @theguardian.com podcast for chatting #ScientificPublishing.
This pod follows from The Strain on Scientific Publishing & reports of publisher profit margins rivalling Google etc...
Paper: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Interested in experimental book publishing?
Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project!
📆 4 October 2025
⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
📍 Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London
More details 👉
Sign up, sign up to this free webinar which takes place in one week's time! Hear from the authors and series editors of #OpenAccess books about their experiences 👇
Mohammed Alsudairi and I wrote a book on Sino-Middle Eastern relations!
Permanently in OpenAccess as part of @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org's Elements in Middle East Politics series.
🔗https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/narratives-of-sinomiddle-eastern-futures/9ED65BBD5309CF1D7943B0B604E5F8A5
🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.
2nd-5th September - all welcome.
This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms.
More details and registration:⬇️
Join @kjsanders.bsky.social and @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social later today to discuss 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿
FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OpenAccess after the event 📹
📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm (BST)
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu
Hello ASAPbio Community! We would like to invite you to one of the upcoming Community Calls of 2025!
We will be discussing:
✨ OpenRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social
✨ Research Fraud
✨ Replacing Academic Journals
✨ Experiments in Publishing
Register for the Call 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.
Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...
We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓
The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all.
No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨
Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen!
👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV
Welcome!☀️
Take part in today's event 'Creating An Open Culture: A Reflection on GW4’s UKRN Train-the-Trainer Programme', 13:15-14:15!
Speakers include:
David A. Ellis, @uniofbath.bsky.social
Lis Grey, @bristoluni.bsky.social
Katy Huxley, Cardiff University
Matt Lloyd Jones, @exeter.ac.uk
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