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Meet our #RLUK25 Keynote 🎙 Michelle Charters Michelle Charters OBE is Head of National Museums Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum, currently undergoing a £58m redevelopment. Previously she was CEO of Kuumba Imani Centre. 🗓 Michelle’s talk will be on Fri 21 Mar 🖱 bit.ly/RLUKconf

Always good to see more publishers engaging with the @jisc Publication Router - helping to make the deposit of material in repositories more efficient: research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/01/16/…

Our second fabulous keynote speaker for our conference #RLUK25 Registration still open rlukconference.com

Some comments from Chris Banks (she/her) and me on some institutions walking away from the Elsevier Big Deal. (Paywalled)

Cambridge University Library has been awarded over £800,000 to investigate ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines: loom.ly/LVeJ_cI

Continuing to highlight the inspirational keynote speakers for our #RLUK25 Conference in Liverpool in March. rlukconference.com

I was asked to write an Op Ed piece by ResearchProfessionalNews on universities cancelling journal Big Deals: researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie… I was keen to stress that at least some of any savings must be used to support new, fairer models

Did you miss the European Diamond Capacity Hub (#EDCH) launch last week in Madrid? Here is a recap📄 coalition-s.org/european-diamo… and the full recording 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=k4Y9nB… Curious to learn more? 👉diamas.org #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

We are very much looking forward to hearing from Lucy as one of our keynote speakers at #RLUK25

I got to see the superb British Library Medieval Women: In Their Own Words exhibition yesterday. Really fascinating and rich, and the type of large-scale exhibition the BL does so well. It is on until 2 March and well-worth a visit bl.uk/whats-on/medie…

In the last week of early-bird registration for our #RLUK25 Conference I continue to highlight our exceptional roster of keynote speakers. We are thrilled to have Christopher Smith speaking - a thoughtful and challenging advocate for research libraries rlukconference.com

The next event in our Digital Shift Forum series looks at Open Digital Infrastructure. These online events are free and open to all #RLUKDSF

Today I’m highlighting our sixth keynote speaker Ciaran Talbot As Director of AI and Ideas Adoption at Manchester Uni Library Ciaran is well placed to address the big issue around Ai and research libraries Early-bird registration closes on Friday, rlukconference.com

Our Special Collections and Heritage Network has put together this thoughtful and challenging piece on issues around EDI. We hope that it will help individual institutions in their thinking, but will also feed into RLUK’s discussions about our new strategy

Our colleagues at @jisc are looking at how they can give a library-lens to their Framework for Digital Transformation. More details, including their ongoing library engagement, at: digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/01/08/…

Early exit of three universities from national deal with Elsevier shows why broader reset of UK publishing agreements is both necessary and likely to achieve lower prices for institutions, say experts including Paul Ayris Samuel Moore timeshighereducation.com/news/early-els… via Jack Grove

We have a great calendar of events in our free, online series Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries. See details of the new season in the thread below and please do register

We are pleased to officially announce our £3.5 million funding from Research England for our five-year project, Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE), we will be working with Research England, the REF 2029 team and the Research Diversity Advisory Panel. hidden-ref.org/campaign-to-re…

You can now catch-up with 2 great (free!) webinars from RLUK Research Libraries UK held this week. Adopting, implementing & supporting open digital infrastructure in libraries - bit.ly/DSFonD Machine Learning Approaches to Gender Bias in Archival Curation - bit.ly/ICILOND

Interested in applying to the RLUK Research Libraries UK/The National Archives Professional Fellowship Scheme 2025-26? Join us for a drop-in session to learn more about the scheme and ask questions about the process of becoming a Professional Fellow. To register, visit: rluk.ac.uk/professional-f…