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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Q3 at Open Pharma: a season of progress 🍂 Find out what we've been up to since July in our latest quarterly update www.openpharma.blog/blog/news/q3... Next up: Open Pharma Day and our AGM. Members and Supporters – get in touch to learn more!

This quarter: topic meeting about HIFA-WHO report on universal access to healthcare information; Medical Writing article about electronic product information; CC licence landscape project report; Bayer joins Open Pharma as a Supporter; blog post about the PLS Finder project; guest blog post about sharing science on social media; content reuse permissions, restrictions and costs impact assessment survey launch; guest blog post about why open access and plain language matter for students; HIFA OA working group launch; HCP OA survey results presented; roundtable proposals submitted to the ISMPP 2026 European Meeting. Up next : HCP OA perspectives thematic discussion with HIFA; topic meetings about the NISO OA Business Processes and Registered Reports; ISMPP 2026 Annual Meeting session and abstract submissions; PLSP playbook launch; guest blog post by Kora Korzec ; Open Pharma Day and the Open Pharma Annual General Meeting.

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

👋 Say hello to your new @ismpp.bsky.social committee members

Your new ISMPP committee members: Sophie Nobes, Digital Engagement and Visual Communications; Joanna Donnelly, Publication Ethics and Standards

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🎶 Tuning out predatory publishers: how to identify and avoid insidious publication practices It’s time for our second roundtable at #ISMPPAnnual2025! Learn how to tune out predatory publishers and safeguard #ResearchIntegrity 👇 🕔 15:45–16:30 EDT 📍 Independence Ballroom, Level 5B

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🚀 Join Open Pharma at the 2025 #EMWASpringConference! 🚀 Let's work together to make #ScientificResearch more #Accessible and #Understandable for everyone! 🌍

EMWA Spring Conference
Riga, Latvia
6–9 May 2025

Join our roundtable titled 'Cross-publisher plain language article guidance: have your say' on 8 May at 07:45–08:30 EEST with Sarah Griffiths, Communications Director at Oxford PharmaGenesis

Join author Slavka Baronikova (Senior Director at Alfasigma) as she presents our poster titled 'Use of plain language summaries by healthcare professionals: an Open Pharma survey'
#EMWASpringConference

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🌟 Join Open Pharma at #ISMPPAnnual2025! 🌟 Don’t miss our roundtables and poster presentations 👇 Want to learn more about how we drive transparency in pharma research communication? 💼 Visit the Open Pharma team at booth 26 ☕ Book a catch-up with Joana Osório and Sophie Nobes in the Whova app

Don't miss these Open Pharma activities at ISMPP Annual 2025.

12 May | 17:15–18:00 EDT
Raise your voice: orchestrating cross-publisher PLSP guidance (roundtable)

12 May | 18:00–19:00 EDT
Cross-publisher agreement on the defining principles of PLSPs (poster)
Use of plain language summaries by healthcare professionals: an Open Pharma survey (poster)

13 May | 15:45–16:30 EDT
Tuning out predatory publishers: how to identify and avoid insidious publication practices (roundtable)

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Partnership 🤝 Progress At Open Pharma, we believe partnership between publishers and pharma is vital for transparent research communication. Catch Joanna at #Redux2025 to explore how you can shape the future of medical publishing. #OpenPharma #MedComms #MedPubs @alpsp.bsky.social

"With the rise in artificial intelligence, close collaboration between publishers and pharma is increasingly important to drive trust and transparency in research communication." - Joanna Donnelly, Communications Consultant at Oxford PharmaGenesis. Joanna will be at the ALPSP University Press Redux Conference on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 April.

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Who’s attending the @alpsp.bsky.social University Press Redux 2025? 👋 Make sure to speak to Joanna about how Open Pharma is driving transparency in pharma research communication. #OpenPharma #Redux2025 #MedComms #MedPubs

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our first #R2RConf workshop session starts soon! 📍 Join us now in the Anderson Barnes Room #OpenPharma #R2RConf #MedComms #PlainLanguageSummaries #MedPubs @r2rconf.bsky.social sky.social

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

⏰ It’s the final countdown … ⏰ We’re ready for @r2rconf.bsky.social. Are you? 📅 25–26 February 2025 📍BMA House, London, England 🔗 Register now! r2rconf.com/r2r-registra... #OpenPharma #MedComms #PlainLanguageSummaries #MedPubs #R2RConf

This card shows the title of our workshop, 'More power to the reader: how can we improve research communication by making content more readable?', which will take place at the Researcher to Reader Conference from 25 to 26 February. Beneath the workshop title are photos of the workshop facilitators Joana Osório, Laura Dormer and Sarah Thomas.

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

There’s still time to register for #R2RConf 👇 📅 25–26 February 2025 📍BMA House, London, England 🔗 Register now! r2rconf.com/r2r-registra... #OpenPharma #MedComms #PlainLanguageSummaries #MedPubs @r2rconf.bsky.social

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

❓ Why should and how can we make research content easy to understand? ❓ 🟣 Researcher to Reader Conference 📅 25–26 February 2025 📍BMA House, London, England 🔗 Register now! r2rconf.com/r2r-registra... #OpenPharma #R2RConf @r2rconf.bsky.social #MedComms #PlainLanguageSummaries #MedPubs

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Open Pharma @openpharma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🔬 We’re coming to @r2rconf.bsky.social! 🔬 📅 25–26 February 2025 📍BMA House, London, England 🔗 Register now and prepare to explore the future of understandable research content! r2rconf.com/r2r-registra... #OpenPharma #R2RConf #MedComms #PlainLanguageSummaries #MedPubs

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