@edopenresearch
We're the Open Research and Research Support teams at the University of Edinburgh. We work to make research more open and accessible to all. We are working towards UNESCO and LERU's pillars of Open Research. Find out more: https://eor.start.page
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...
Join EORI online on Wednesday 4th March at 10am for our next ReproducibiliTea event. We welcome Associate Professor Fergus Guppy and Dr Peter Bankhead who will talk about their experiences of working reproducibly. Join our mailing list at edin.ac/3JFv5sF for the Microsoft Teams link.
Join EORI online for our next ReproducibiliTea event on Wednesday 4th March from 10am-11.30am. We welcome Associate Professor Fergus Guppy and Dr Peter Bankhead to talk Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. Join our mailing list at edin.ac/3JFv5sF for the event link.
UNESCO's model for Open Science, with four quadrants each with icons representing the components. The centre of the circle reads "Open Science". The top quadrant, Open Scientific Knowledge, includes Scientific Publications, Open research data, open educational resources, open source software and source code, and open hardware icons. The right quadrant, Open Science Infrastructures, includes virtual and physical icons. The bottom quadrant, open engagement of societal actors, includes citizen and participatory science, scientific/volunteering, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding icons. The left quadrant, open dialogue with other knowledge systems, includes local communities, marginalised scholars, and indigenous peoples icons.
There's still time to submit your contribution for the Open Research Conference, 2026 where we will be exploring the new roadmap, and UNESCO's model for OR!
The deadline has been extended to the end of day, 27th of February, learn more here:
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
Second chances: sometimes they’re real. Don’t miss yours.
Data Management for your Research, Wednesday 18th February, Rm 3.35, EFI
Book your place now: edin.ac/4rPGUNw
Are you a Postgraduate Researcher needing help planning your Research Data Management? We're here to help point you in the right direction with an in-person training event at the Lister Building from 14:00-15:30 next Wednesday, February 11th. Book through the following link: edin.ac/46w5PhC
Join Edinburgh Open Research Initiative tomorrow in the Edinburgh Futures Institute Café at 10am for our Honest Research Conversation on the theme of Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. No sign up required. We hope to see you there!
New blog post! 🚨
The Edinburgh Research Data blog is highlighting two upcoming conferences for you, the Digital Research Conference 2026 and Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026.
Read the full post for details of both: edin.ac/4a7zi1v
Join Edinburgh Open Research Initiative on Wednesday 4th February in the EFI Cafe ("Canopy"), at 10am for our next Honest Research Conversation. Expect an open, honest chat on the theme of Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. We hope to see you there!
Would you like to read a great example of collaboration in RDM? Look no further than the guest blog post by Dr Ann Wheeler, Head of the Institute of Genetics and Cancer Advanced Imaging Resource, showcasing their exemplar for metadata capture and data management workflows.
edin.ac/4qrD3pu
This is Hadrian’s Library in Athens. Hadrian didn’t look after his data. Don’t be like Hadrian. Come along to our Research Data Management Workshops: edin.ac/3CguBVH
Happy New Year! To get 2026 off to a good start, why not join the first ReproducibiliTea session of the year from 10-11:30AM (online) on Wednesday 7th? Our theme is "how to work openly?" and we'll be hearing from 3 wonderful speakers – Dr Mahesh Karnani, Dr Emma Ganley, and Dr Danny Schnitzler
Happy New Year! Here's a resolution... "I will get more involved in opening up research". Yeah? Great! Oh, wait - hey - I think we can help with that! Why not submit a talk or poster to EORC2026? library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup... That way we can meet, chat, and perhaps support one another!
Would you look at that?! It's an early Christmas pressie! The Open Research Conference 2026 Call for Contributions is now live!
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
This year we're celebrating our adoption of the UNESCO recommendation for Open Science.
Go on, treat yourself... throw in a submission.
The #ECSAcademy has scheduled two 30-minute onboarding sessions to guide participants through enrollment and navigation of the platform. Register below and explore the #trainings: lnkd.in/dGfTp5-7
-4th of December at 17:00: lnkd.in/deEYBPSu
-8th of December at 12:00: lnkd.in/d9QfDhvq
Join Edinburgh Open Research Initiative this Wednesday from 10am-11am in the Edinburgh Futures Institute Room 1.52 for our Honest Research Conversation on the theme of how to work openly. Expect conversations about our experiences around learning or implementing open or reproducible practices.
Join EORI for an Honest Research Conversation at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (Rm 1.52) on Wednesday 3rd December at 10am. Come along for a relaxed, friendly chat about how to work openly. Free University of Edinburgh café vouchers available on a first come, first served basis!
Text is overlayed over a photograph of the Scottish highlands, with a loch in the background, and a person with their arms stretched out on the right hand side in the foreground. Text reads: Share your climate story. Help research into climate emotions and mental health in Scotland through sharing your creative writing - fiction or nonfiction- about climate change. No climate expertise or writing experience needed. Deadline 28 February 2026 www.climatestories.co.uk
The wonderful Rhiannon Bull (who our Outwith team has had the pleasure of working with!) has just put out a call for participants! You can contribute online or, if you're lucky to be in Edinburgh, you can sign up to their workshop series. Learn more on their beautiful site:
www.climatestories.co.uk
New guest Research Data Blog post alert! Our colleague, Dr Eleonora Mameli, from the Digital Research Services team has written about their events and training sessions for the current academic year, including some key areas of Research Data Management. Have a read and get involved!
PSA: 10 PM Do you know where your data are?
Keep Your Research Data Safe.
Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm.
Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.
Nel, our Library Participatory Research Engagement Officer, has asked us to point out that today is "Outwith Day"; a day to celebrate the glorious Scots English term. They had little else to say, except that it's a wonderful word - and that it's also a great part of what we do
Our DataShare service was the subject of an excellent paper by our esteemed colleagues in Japan, Nanako Okamura and Professor Emi Ishita of Kyushu University. Very rewarding to see knowledge exchange disseminated in this way and provides insight into current RDM practice in Japan. edin.ac/3W01VXR
Coming next week to an EFI building near you: secrets of the Ancient Masters revealed for the first time! Data Management For Your Research. Wednesday 8th October, 2:30 ‘til 4 pm at the EFI Building, Rm 3.35.
Book now and the Wisdom of the Ages can be yours!
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
Hello wonderful humans! Outwith would like to introduce you to their wonderful friends and research Partners in Participation.
Join us on the 8th of October at 4pm to explore some collections, and hear about mental health, creative methods, and a whole bunch more!
outwith25.eventbrite.com
Outwith was lucky enough to wrangle their way into this exhibition - and what an exhibition it was! A beautiful display of some amazing participatory research projects.
EORI welcomes you to our very first Honest Research Conversations in-person event on Wednesday 1st October 10am-11am at the Edinburgh Futures Institute main café. Ever wondered about open research, but don’t know where to start? Join us for an open, relaxed discussion to share experiences.
Hello wonderful humans! Outwith would like to introduce you to their wonderful friends and research Partners in Participation.
Join us on the 8th of October at 4pm to explore some collections, and hear about mental health, creative methods, and a whole bunch more!
outwith25.eventbrite.com
Want to learn how? Come along to our all new Research Data Service Workshops: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup....
Check out our recent blog post, it's all about our training programme for the Autumn. Click through for more details and sign up or share with anyone who needs data management training in their lives.
libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/datablog/202...
We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture: