Call For Papers: Museological Review Issue 27
What if we could trust the ground under our feet? Museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability Our friends at the journal Museological Review have a new Call for Paper, which we would like to share with you. The submission deadline for abstracts/proposals: Monday 15 January 2024. Sometimes it seems like the sign of our […]
Library events for International Open Access Week, 23-29 October 2023
International Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s theme, Community Over […]
Museums in Ukraine and a tribute to Jim Roberts
Museum and Society have published a new issue on University of Leicester Open Journals. It is a special issue about museums in Ukraine, and will be of interest to anyone involved in partnership work with Ukrainian heritage organisations and universities. Articles include: and more. Read them all here. There is also a tribute to Jim […]
Open access deal with Springer Nature
Following a year-long negotiation led by Jisc, the University of Leicester is among UK universities who have agreed a new, three-year read and publish open access (OA) deal with Springer Nature. The negotiations were governed by pre-agreed sector requirements. Following the signing and implementation of the agreement, our university will work alongside the sector to […]
A day in the life: research services at Figshare Fest May 2023
Tom Moore, Research Services Consultant for open research recently attended the annual Figshare Fest at Manchester Museum. Our Leicester Research Archive (LRA) is powered by Figshare, and is the institutional all-in-one repository for research data, publications, theses, and much more. Meeting up with colleagues from universities and research institutions is really valuable, a great way to learn […]
University of Leicester is now a supporter of DOAJ
We are delighted to announce that University of Leicester is now an institutional supporter of the Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ). As part of our commitment to supporting open scholarship, we have signed-up as an official supporter (in the sustaining category). DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the world. It […]
International Open Access Week: Open for Climate Justice
The theme chosen this year by the International Open Access Week advisory committee for International Open Access Week 2022 is “Open for Climate Justice” (October 24-30). As described on the OA week website: This year’s focus on Climate Justice seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing […]