The move follows years of internal and external pressure.

Universities in the UK are hindered by exploitative corporate software ecosystems. For all the advancement of open research and open access, the use and distribution of open source software in univers...

The Association for Scottish Literature/Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Conference 2026 will be held at, and in association with, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Friday to Sunday,

What's OnHoliday ActivitiesVenue HireSchool VisitsFrom Tuesday 6 May

A full-day conference open to the CIVICA network, featuring keynotes, panels, lightning talks and networking opportunities.

The University of Chicago Press produces and distributes books and journals that meet the highest standards of scholarship, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. For over 130 years, p...

Open Access (OA) agreements were introduced to remove financial barriers to scientific dissemination and promote equity in knowledge access. As Article Processing Charges (APCs) have shifted from i...

RLUK's Collections Strategy Network (CSN) has developed a set of principles to guide RLUK members when evaluating future investment in Open Access Monograph models.  These take into account the need to align investments with local strategy and activities but also recognise the opportunity libraries often have to influence a wider agenda by pushing

France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…

You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

This is the text of a paper I delivered at Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 on 2025-06-04 led by the conference question "What's stopping you?". It has been edited from the original to incorpor...

Odio l’IA. Forse sembro cattivo, ma sinceramente la odio così tanto che non m’interessa.

YouTube video by Z. Mann Zilla

More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.

Like ‘photoshop’, ‘zoom’ has become the quasi-official verb for online video conferencing [1]. Video conferencing is dominated by commercial proprietary desktop software like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Go...

RLUK, a consortium of UK and Irish research libraries, recently released their Collections Strategy Network’s Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models: a ne...

The Ghost of White Hart Lane – Loretto Theatre, Multiple dates and times - We are delighted to bring The Ghost of White Hart Lane by Martin Murphy to Musselburgh. Spurs and Scotland star John White wa...

Opening new radical bookshop, coffee shop, and community space in Newcastle UK!

The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …

Remains of First Hampden football ground pavilion, Kingsley Gardens, Glasgow (300085180)

Dewar's Temperance Hotel in Glasgow holds a special place in Scottish football history. It was there on 13 March 1873 that eight clubs resolved to 'form themselves into an association for the...