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Open Research @aberdeenuni. Providing expertise, support, advice and news on #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData Also @openresearchuoa.bsky.social

 Aberdeen, Scotland
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Joined March 2022
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So long twitter! As most of our audience has migrated we're casting off in search of bluer skies. We hope to see you all there. Find us at openresearchuoa.bsky.social
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Are you starting new research soon? Have you had a project going for awhile and your data is a complete mess and you're scared? Something in between? Come to our session on Data Management Plans and figure out how to whip that project data in to shape abdn.site/dmzK9
graphic Explore Open Research, Organising your Data, Creating a Data Management Plan. Wednesday 20th of November 14:00-14:45. Sign up on coursebooking

ALT graphic Explore Open Research, Organising your Data, Creating a Data Management Plan. Wednesday 20th of November 14:00-14:45. Sign up on coursebooking

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End of term getting to you? Having trouble getting into the headspace to work? Join our free structured productivity session 'Turn up and Write!' tomorrow at 10am, in Room 224, SDRL. The atmosphere is relaxed and free hot drinks and biscuits are provided. abdn.site/7LtEB
Teenage Boy Sitting in Front of Open Textbooks Looking Confused and stressed . Photo By: Kaboompics.com: https://www.pexels.com/photo/teenage-boy-sitting-in-front-of-open-textbooks-looking-confused-6958584/

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Today for #WorldDiabetesDay we'd like to share one way Open Research is improving treatments for diabetes. With #OpenSource insulin delivery systems, patients and researchers are co-creating more accessible and reliable technologies abdn.site/xs9vE
A blue circle, inside it says '14 November World Diabetes Day' with a blue heart with a red blood drop

ALT A blue circle, inside it says '14 November World Diabetes Day' with a blue heart with a red blood drop

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It's an exciting day for Open Research at Aberdeen! We've received a funding award from @UKRI_News for our first monograph funded under the new UKRI OA book fund! The research, funded by the ESRC, looks at Scottish party politics after Indyref doi.org/10.4324/978042944655…
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Get the CRediT you deserve! Join our session on the Contributor Role Taxonomy and learn how using these roles can enhance your researcher profile and help improve research culture. Tomorrow from 14:00-14:45, sign up on coursebooking from here abdn.site/credit
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Happy Diwali to all who celebrate! Diwali is primarily a Hindu festival, but is also an important date to other Indian religions including Jains, Sikhs, and Newar Buddhists. There is diversity in how it is celebrated, but festive light displays and delicious sweets are universal
A woman wearing a red and gold sari with white chrysanthemums in her hair is sitting in the middle of a beautiful concentric circular painting of a lotus flower in green and red. She is finishing lighting candles all around the outside edge. The image is dark save for the light of the many candles. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Original: AjoyDutta1997 Derivative work: Aristeas, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>,

ALT A woman wearing a red and gold sari with white chrysanthemums in her hair is sitting in the middle of a beautiful concentric circular painting of a lotus flower in green and red. She is finishing lighting candles all around the outside edge. The image is dark save for the light of the many candles. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Original: AjoyDutta1997 Derivative work: Aristeas, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>,

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We've carefully tabulated the votes and arrived at a firm conclusion. Aberdeen, your Carve your PhD Winner for 2024 is: 'Reconstruction of the spatial ecology of pleistocene Ursidae' by Kiki Bordean!! Huge thanks to everyone who participated!. We loved seeing your work!
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Would you like to learn more about CRediT roles and how they can help improve assessment and recognition, helping to foster a more healthy and supportive research culture? Come to our next ExplORe session to learn all about it. Sign up on Coursebooking abdn.site/credit
Graphic, in the background are line drawings of King's College and the Sir Duncan Rice Library in white against black, with bright pink lines. On top of that it reads 'ExplORE Open Research Essentials: Get the Credit you Deserve: Essential Guide to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy. Wednesday the 6thof Nove,ber 14:00-14:45 pm. Sign up on coursebooking'

ALT Graphic, in the background are line drawings of King's College and the Sir Duncan Rice Library in white against black, with bright pink lines. On top of that it reads 'ExplORE Open Research Essentials: Get the Credit you Deserve: Essential Guide to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy. Wednesday the 6thof Nove,ber 14:00-14:45 pm. Sign up on coursebooking'

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It's BeWell & Inclusion week! This year it's about 'Everyday Upgrades'. abdn.site/nkU7b One upgrade is our Paper Accepted service. If you forward the acceptance email for all papers to [email protected], we'll add it to Pure for you and make sure it's REF-eligible
A graphic on a dark blue background. It reads 'Be Well & Inclusion Week. What's on! 28 Oct-1Nov' and there are logos of a heart with a defib rythmn, a brain with gears, and a person doing stretches

ALT A graphic on a dark blue background. It reads 'Be Well & Inclusion Week. What's on! 28 Oct-1Nov' and there are logos of a heart with a defib rythmn, a brain with gears, and a person doing stretches

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Pumpkins have been carved! Entries evaluated! Two Finalists emerged! It's a Department of Archaeology Head-to-Head! Who will emerge victorious? Will is be Bears from the Pleistocene or Skeletons from Medieval Scotland? Vote now at abdn.site/CarvePhD or in @aberdeenunilib
A pumpkin carved with face of a bear. It is in a dark room lit from the inside

ALT A pumpkin carved with face of a bear. It is in a dark room lit from the inside

A pumpkin carved with a skeleton torso, it is holding a beaker in one hand and a trowel in the other

ALT A pumpkin carved with a skeleton torso, it is holding a beaker in one hand and a trowel in the other

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Now for our final post of #OAWeek, we're talking about the unique benefits and challenges of Diamond Open Access abdn.site/DiaOA
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All this (not the cat) could be yours! There's two more days to enter out Carve your PhD contest! Make a Jack o' Lantern representing your thesis topic and send pictures to [email protected]. Full rules at abdn.site/CarvePhD Winner also receives £25 book tokens
On a table sits a variety of Halloween candies, including resse skeletons, love heart, sour worms, and refreshers, behind these candies is a small light up pumpkin

ALT On a table sits a variety of Halloween candies, including resse skeletons, love heart, sour worms, and refreshers, behind these candies is a small light up pumpkin

All the items from the previous picture, from a different angle, standing over and sniffing them is a beautiful black cat

ALT All the items from the previous picture, from a different angle, standing over and sniffing them is a beautiful black cat

An image just like the first, but this time the pumpkin is facing the other direction, and you can see on it's back it reads 'Winner! Carve your PhD 2024'

ALT An image just like the first, but this time the pumpkin is facing the other direction, and you can see on it's back it reads 'Winner! Carve your PhD 2024'

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Day 4 of #OAWeek: sometimes, it can seem like open access is all about the Sciences especially when we talk about Preprints, pioneer by the Maths and physics server, arXiv. So we're doing a deep dive on a newcomer to the Preprint server field, Law Archive abdn.site/Law
Law Archive logo: vaulted ceiling of a medievel looking building, presumably a law library, in front is a white outline image of a file folder that reads 'Law Archive'

ALT Law Archive logo: vaulted ceiling of a medievel looking building, presumably a law library, in front is a white outline image of a file folder that reads 'Law Archive'

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*Boris Karloff voice* We want to suck your blood! Scotblood is holding a blood drive at Elphinstone Hall on the 28th of October, and there are still appointments available for most time slots. Vampire costumes recommended (by me. Scotblood has nothing to say on the matter).
A flyer, on the top it says 'Save a Life, Give Blood.' below that are pictures of people donating blood. Below which is the university of Aberdeen logo. It further reads Monday 28th October, Elphinstone Hall, 10:00 am- 5:00 PM, book your apointment to give blood. scotblood.co.uk 03459090999

ALT A flyer, on the top it says 'Save a Life, Give Blood.' below that are pictures of people donating blood. Below which is the university of Aberdeen logo. It further reads Monday 28th October, Elphinstone Hall, 10:00 am- 5:00 PM, book your apointment to give blood. scotblood.co.uk 03459090999

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For today's #OAWeek blog post we try to wade through the legal and technical morass around GenAI and Copyright to deliver some guidance around Creative Commons licences and use of works to train LLMs abdn.site/CC-AI
Meme, the background image is a wood chipper in the middle of a forest. It is being fed logs by a crane and feeding wood chips into the back of a truck. The logs are labelled 'Your scholarly writing?', the chipper is labbelled 'LLM', and the chips spewing out of it are labelled 'AI-Generated Text'. Image (minus text) created by Lincoln Rogala, via wikimedia, licenced CC BY-SA, meme version licenced under same conditions

ALT Meme, the background image is a wood chipper in the middle of a forest. It is being fed logs by a crane and feeding wood chips into the back of a truck. The logs are labelled 'Your scholarly writing?', the chipper is labbelled 'LLM', and the chips spewing out of it are labelled 'AI-Generated Text'. Image (minus text) created by Lincoln Rogala, via wikimedia, licenced CC BY-SA, meme version licenced under same conditions

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Just so it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the list of resources, of special interest to many of our authors, is this tracker from Ithaka, monitoring which scholarly publishers have made agreements with GenAI companies sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gener…

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

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For #OAWeek we'll be setting up tables at Fosterhill and Old Aberdeen to talk to members of our community about Open Access, and the help we can provide. We'll be at the IMS Atrium on Wednesday or the lobby in Sir Duncan Rice on Thursday, between 12-1PM. Stop by and say hello!
A small fluffy brown friendly dog looks up curiously. Above his head it says 'Hello!' Photo by Isabel Martin, via flickr

ALT A small fluffy brown friendly dog looks up curiously. Above his head it says 'Hello!' Photo by Isabel Martin, via flickr

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Today for #OAWeek, we're talking about OpenAlex, an open alternative to proprietary citation databases like Scopus or Web of Science, which is built and maintained by the community, to provide highly accurate search results abdn.site/OAlex
tiled graphic of six images of people engaged in various scholarly activities, over each image is the open access open padlock logo, on the bottom banner of the graphic it reads 'International Open Access Week: Community over Commercialisation

ALT tiled graphic of six images of people engaged in various scholarly activities, over each image is the open access open padlock logo, on the bottom banner of the graphic it reads 'International Open Access Week: Community over Commercialisation

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In addition to our drop-in sessions, this #OAWeek, we're writing a series of blog posts about current issues in Open Access. We're kicking off the series with a post on Library Magic, and how open access helps us slay the dragons of commercial publishing abdn.site/OAMagic
Anime style image of woman with long brown hair at a library desk with books swirling around her by magic.

ALT Anime style image of woman with long brown hair at a library desk with books swirling around her by magic.

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