UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship

uclopenscience.bsky.social

19 October 2026 20:12

International Open Access Week 2026 starts today, and we'll be sharing blog posts all week! 🎉 In our first post, Lara Speicher, Head of @uclpress.bsky.social, looks at how to fund open access books without book processing charges. Read the blog post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/... #OAWeek

Open Research, University of St Andrews

standrewsopenres.bsky.social

19 October 2026 20:05

📢 Wishing everyone an exciting #OAweek, sparking fruitful discussions and active engagement 💚📭💎📚 #OpenAccess #CostofKnowledge #OpenResearch @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 👉 To find out more about OA books by our authors at St Andrews, why not check out our display in the Main Library?

Open Research at York

uoyopenres.bsky.social

19 October 2026 20:03

“The Cost of Knowledge” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (Oct 19-25) #OAWeek 🌍 🔓 Accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right, yet the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase. Why? Who benefits? Learn more about this year's theme 👇

Samuel Moore

samuelmoore.org

01 October 2026 17:41

It's a pretty simple argument that if publishers are supposedly there to confer some kind of quality onto the work they publish, the push for APCs completely undermines their position as stewards of the literature.

Open Research, University of St Andrews

standrewsopenres.bsky.social

29 September 2026 14:49

🎆New #AHRC @ukri.org funded book on UK grassroots artmaking by editors Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani, Catherine Spencer and Amy Tobin 🎨🖌️✂️ doi.org/10.5040/9781... Check it out here👉 tinyurl.com/Grassrootsart @arthistorysta.bsky.social #OpenAccess #ArtHistory #CommunityArt #PoliticalArt