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Open Research at the British Library. News from teams including scholarly communications, data services, DataCite consortium, and shared repository.
London and Boston Spa, UK
Joined March 2020
#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! 20th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. 18-20 November 2025. In-person. Charge applies. [Online registration to follow]:
site.uit.no
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. The next conference will be held online...
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#DontForget! Register for @ResearchOrgs community calls and keep track of upcoming events on the ROR Events page:
ror.org
Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events
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#Introducing the new direct members of @DataCite!.· Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.· Astera Institute.
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#CallToJoin! The British Academy is seeking to understand how universities handle longform OA materials in UK institutional repositories, via a survey which should take 10 minutes to complete. Responses are requested by the middle of September:
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#CheckOut the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)'s primary feed, dedicated to free software that provides information on open access to research! More information can be found here:
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#CheckOut the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)'s primary feed, dedicated to free software that provides information on open access to research! You can join the project as a tagger here:
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#CheckOut the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)'s primary feed, dedicated to free software that provides information on open access to research!:
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#CheckOut the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), a crowd-sourced social-tagging project running on free software to produce information on open access to research. There are socials, an RSS feed linked to an outlook account, and so much more!:
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#CallToRegister! @UKRI_News Webinar: Improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape, Wednesday 3 September 2025:
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#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! 17th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference. 17-19 November 2025. Online:
forum.swib.org
SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) is a community and an annual conference, this year being held for the 17th time. SWIB25 will happen online to ensure inclusion of as many participants as possible...
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#RecommendedRead: Karvovskaya, L., Yeomans, J., & Rodenburg, E. (2025). The Data Horror Escape Room game as a successful tool for RDM education and engagement. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 35(1), 1-29.
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#CheckItOut! Track the latest @ResearchOrgs registry releases on GitHub:
github.com
Central tracking for updates to ROR. Contribute to ror-community/ror-updates development by creating an account on GitHub.
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· IsOriginalFormOf and IsVariantFormOf.· IsTranslationOf and HasTranslation.Wondering when to use which relationType? Check out the @DataCite guide to Connecting different versions, formats, and more with Related Identifiers for specific examples:
support.datacite.org
When registering DOIs for closely related resources—such as different versions or formats of the same work—you can connect these resources in the metadata to support discovery and disambiguation....
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. the metadata to support discovery and disambiguation using the RelatedIdentifier property. Depending on the scenario, some relationTypes you may use include:.· IsNewVersionOf and IsPreviousVersionOf.· HasVersion and IsVersionOf.· Obsoletes and IsObsoletedBy.
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#SupportQuestionoftheMonth: "How do I connect different versions, formats, or variations of the same work in DataCite DOI metadata?".When registering DOIs for closely related resources—such as different versions or formats of the same work—you can connect these resources in. .
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@DataCite ·Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. – TIB DOI Konsortiu.·University of North Carolina at Greensboro – TIND.
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#Introducing the new consortium organizations of @DataCite!.·Australian Academy of Science –Australian Research Data Commons.·University of London – British Library.·Central University of Technology, Free State – Figshare consortium.·Rocky Vista University – TIND.
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#RecommendedRead from Software Sustainability Institute: Date, Theme and Location for Collaborations Workshop 2026 (CW26):
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#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! @DARIAHeu. Friday Frontiers Webinar. AI-Human Synergy: Enhancing Cultural Knowledge Through Ethical and Inclusive use of Large Language Models (LLMs). 7 November 2025. Online:
dariah.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Friday Frontiers 7th Nov - Jenny Kwok. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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#RecommendedRead: Balnaves, E., Bultrini, L., Cox, A. and Uzwyshyn, R. (eds.) (2025). New Horizons in Artificial Intelligence in Libraries. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur.
degruyterbrill.com
There is increasing use of AI technologies in many aspects of library operations and types of libraries. This ranges across public, national, research, academic and special libraries and includes...
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