UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship

As we approach the end of #OAWeek, we’ve enjoyed a series of insightful discussions and events across UCL! 🌐 Today, Christine Daoutis will continue our series on copyright and open science, focusing on ensuring free and open access to knowledge in the age of AI. She addresses copyright challenges, advocacy for rights retention policies, and secondary publication rights that benefit both researchers and the public. 🤝 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eusqXmge 💬 Also, UCL Copyright team will host a drop-in session today from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. They will be available to answer your questions about copyright, licensing, and how to share your research openly. Feel free to drop in on Teams between 2:30 and 3:50 pm! More info and booking details: https://lnkd.in/eynnUZzs #OpenAccess #Copyright #OpenScience #OpenAccessWeek #OAWeek24 #AcademicPublishing #RightsRetention #AI Kirsty Wallis Paul Ayris

🏆 We were thrilled to host the second annual Open Science & Scholarship Awards ceremony last week during Open Access Week! This event provided a fantastic opportunity to come together in person, celebrate our awardees, and recognise their achievements. The ceremony began with certificate presentations, followed by an inspiring showcase of award-winning projects from Joseph Cook, Enny van Beest, Célian Bimbard, Sophie Ka Ling Lau and Divya Balain, Eirini-Christina Saloniki, William L. and Emily Gardner. In the #OpenSource category, we also recognised Alessandro Felder and the BrainGlobe Initiative for their impressive work in creating open-access tools for neuroscientific research. Though Alessandro couldn't attend, we were proud to highlight that BrainGlobe's tools have been downloaded over 2.7 million times since 2020! 🧠 We were also pleased to recognise the contributions of Beth Downe, Gabrielle Pengyu Shao, Deborah Padfield, Adam Parker, Hengrui Zhang, Mathilde Ripart, Justyna Petke, Claire Waddington, and Fan Cheng with certificates of honourable mention. Representing a diverse array of departments, teams, and centres across UCL—from the Slade School of Fine Art to the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour—we were delighted to celebrate your dedication to advancing open science across disciplines. Thank you for being a part of this event! After the presentations, the audience had a chance to network and enjoy refreshments provided by UCL Press, the event’s generous sponsor. A special thanks to Sandy Schumann (PhD), Jessie Baldwin, Paul Ayris, David Shanks, Julie Fabre, Henrik Singmann, Talya Greene, and Banaz Jalil, PhD for their support! 🤝 For more highlights, check out our blog: https://lnkd.in/ePZghGaT ✨ Stay tuned for next year's Open Science and Scholarship Awards! #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenPublishing #ResearchAwards #Collaboration #CitizenScience #OAWeek24 Kirsty Wallis

As we transition away from Twitter/X, there are plenty of ways to stay connected with us! In addition to LinkedIn, you can find us here: 🔹 BlueSky: https://lnkd.in/eVKZEkjV 🔹 Open@UCL Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eHR-4qnZ 🔹 Website: https://lnkd.in/ekmYxx_b 🔹 Open@UCL Blog: https://lnkd.in/gMACVYRm For more details on this change, visit: https://lnkd.in/eieuJ7Yd We look forward to connecting with you across our channels! #OpenScience #BlueSky #SocialMedia #AcademicCommunity

To celebrate World Cities Day, UCL Press is delighted to announce a call for proposals for the open access Engaging Communities in City-making book series, edited by Barbara Lipietz, Sarah Bell, Tadhg Caffrey and Pablo Sendra. Titles published in the series to date include Engaged Urban Pedagogy and Co-designing Infrastructures. Find out more about how to publish in the series: https://ow.ly/ofJP50TUhgv

📣 Opportunity for #OpenScience advocates! On November 19, 2024, the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is hosting a full-day online event to share progress and resources from the Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition (OR4) project. The OR4 project is helping UK academic institutions reform how they recognise and reward open research. This event is a unique chance to: ▶ Engage with UKRN’s initiatives on open research recognition. ▶Learn from case studies and a growing community of practice. ▶ Discover tools like the new OR4 Toolkit and maturity framework, developed to support institutions in promoting open, responsible research assessment. Learn more about the OR4 project and registration details: https://lnkd.in/ezRvKRN2 Sign up now to be part of the movement toward recognising and rewarding open research in UK higher education! Banaz Jalil, PhD Kirsty Wallis #OpenResearch #ResearchCulture #ResponsibleResearch #UKRN #AcademicRecognition Image by studio4rt on Freepik

Celebrating high-quality data at the Festival of Social Science! ✨ Join us until 9 November 2024, as the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council highlights the importance of high-quality data through its Festival of Social Science. With hundreds of events across UK universities, there's something for everyone—online, hybrid, and in-person! This year’s theme, "Our Digital Lives," explores how digital technology shapes our everyday experiences and addresses critical challenges like climate change and geopolitical conflict.📲 Check out the Festival of Social Science’s full schedule on their official website. https://lnkd.in/eJkhDSrX #ResearchData Management and #OpenScience practices are essential for maximising the impact of social science research. The UK Data Service manages the UK's largest collection of economic, population, and social research data, ensuring these resources are accessible for teaching, learning, and public benefit. 📊 Find out more about their extensive data collections through the data catalogue, and visit their Learning Hub for resources and training: https://lnkd.in/gGZdjCCg Let’s celebrate the impact of data on social science research! 💡 #ESRCFestival #SocialScience #UKDataService #DataManagement

UCL Press Play is delighted to announce the release of a brand new episode of the podcast series The Greatest Good, which explores the lasting influence of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose radical progressivism was the intellectual inspiration for UCL. In the third episode, Philip Schofield discusses queer aesthetics and the idea of a racialised panoptic gaze with Dr Xine Yao, co-director of qUCL (UCL’s Queer Studies network) and an expert on American literature in the Department of English. They dig into the archive of bestselling, but now forgotten, American novels, and tease out the ways in which the biggest issues of the 19th century still resonate in everyday life today. Listen free: https://ow.ly/iC8y50TUgRw

We’re thrilled to about the launch of the new Citizen Prosperity Index and Dashboard – with the first data available from our Prosperity in east London 2021-2031 longitudinal study. The study is a 10-year study tracking how regeneration affects the prosperity of local communities. The Citizen Prosperity Index provides a more comprehensive assessment of people’s wellbeing that goes beyond traditional economic measures like GDP. The Index combines new metrics and indicators co-designed with citizen social scientists, and based on in-depth research on lived experiences and local determinants of prosperity in east London, measuring what truly matters to local people. The research findings identify multiple challenges that residents in east London areas are facing including financial stress, housing costs, and poor access to basic services like food and energy. Visit the Index dashboard ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDFjDDBd