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Tom Morley

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Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. UKSG eNews co-editor.

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Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How is scholarly publishing changing and what will publishing research be like in future? Join us for an in person workshop exploring the changing landscape of publishing research. www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/news...
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Library to host a workshop discussing the future of publishing Research - Lancaster University
Join us for an in person workshop exploring the changing landscape of publishing research.
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Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What is the future of publishing Research? Perspectives from research funders and our research community lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/4498486 Join us for an in person workshop exploring the changing landscape of publishing research. 📅27th May ⏰10am 🗺️Library A385 (Library events spaces)
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What is the future of publishing Research? Perspectives from research funders and our research community (In person)
How is scholarly publishing changing and what will publishing research be like in future? The scholarly communications landscape is changing rapidly. The current most prominent...
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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Get to know Lancaster University Open Journals! Our latest OIPA Symposium Spotlight explores the background, development, and implementation of their publishing platform, and the collaborative approach taken to support and meet the needs of the academic community. oipauk.org/2026/04/16/o...
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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📆 SAVE THE DATE 📆 The 2026 OIPA symposium will take place on Thursday 18th June at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Brighton. Programme details to follow, but please mark it in your calendars and start making arrangements. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New this year, we’re introducing an opportunity for students and early-career professionals to deliver an optional short talk as part of the conference. If you’re interested in contributing & sharing your experiences with the community, we’d love to hear from you. More details on the ALN website.
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@academiclibsnorth.bsky.social are offering 10 sponsored places for both presenters and delegates at this years conference, "Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries". The deadline to apply if the 29th of April. academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...
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ALN Conference 2026 - Academic Libraries North
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to be a part of the programme for #ALN26. A sub-group of the conference planning team is currently reviewing
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Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Applications for the inaugural Elaine Sykes Open Research Award are now open. Have you been involved in a project or initiative that aims to make research more openly accessible, transparent or reproducible? We want to hear from you 👇 portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new...
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Rebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Being on the OIPA committee is some of the most rewarding work I've done, and I'm pleased to share the editorial we wrote for @uksg.bsky.social e-News to celebrate 2025 & look forward to 2026! (If you ever wanted to see what books I have on my bookcase behind my looming face, now's your chance 😂).
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you're interested in applying for a sponsored place to #UKSG2026 there are TEN bursaries available! 🎉 Open to early career professionals/ students/ underrepresented voices/ first timers Find out more on @uksg.bsky.social website 👇 www.uksg.org/sponsored-pl... 1/2
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Sponsored Places for UKSG Annual Conference - UKSG
Sponsored Places for UKSG Annual Conference  Your opportunity to win a free place at the UKSG 2026 Annual Conference and Exhibition!  UKSG is offering ten free places to attend the UKSG Annual […]
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@uksg.bsky.social are offering 10 sponsored places for the upcoming UKSG Conference. The deadline for applications is the 15th of February: www.uksg.org/sponsored-pl... @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social and I recently interviewed some of last years sponsored places attendees 👇 linktr.ee/uksgpodcast
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Sponsored Places for UKSG Annual Conference - UKSG
Sponsored Places for UKSG Annual Conference  Your opportunity to win a free place at the UKSG 2026 Annual Conference and Exhibition!  UKSG is offering ten free places to attend the UKSG Annual […]
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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We're delighted to launch the call for papers for the ALN Conference 2026. 24 June online, 6 July at Manchester Metropolitan University. This years theme is "Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries" Further details on how to submit are at: www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conferen... #ALN26
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Meet the annual conference bursary winners from #UKSG2025 🏆 The final podcast in the series features @tmorley24.bsky.social and Lorna Goudie, Acquisitions Coordinator (Collections & Archives Team), Edgehill University Listen now 👉 soundcloud.com/uksg-podcast...
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Interested in applying for the Trailblazers Open Access book scheme? Come along to this information session on the 20th of February!
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UKSG @uksg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We are looking for a new co-editor to work alongside Tom Morley on our fortnightly newsletter, UKSG eNews. More information is available here: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
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UKSG is looking for a new eNews co-Editor - UKSG
29 January 2026 UKSG is looking for a new eNews Co-editor: UKSG eNews is an newsletter produced every two weeks exclusively for UKSG members. The role of the UKSG eNews […]
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Catch up with another previous winner of a @uksg.bsky.social annual conference bursary! Olivia Edmonds won a sponsored place to #UKSG2025 and recently spoke to @tmorley24.bsky.social about her experience! Listen now 👉 soundcloud.com/uksg-podcast... #Bursary #Conference #SponsoredPlace
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Win a free place to #UKSG2026 📍 Glasgow, UK 📆 30 March–1 April 2026 Apply now! Deadline = 15 Feb 2026 ⏳ 👉 www.uksg.org/news/2026/01...
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2026 JOHN MERRIMAN Joint NASIG/UKSG award & UKSG Conference 2026: Ten Sponsored Places Available - UKSG
UKSG members also have the chance to win a fully funded trip to the USA through the prestigious NASIG/UKSG John Merriman Award. This award offers one member the opportunity to […]
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Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Applications are now open for the Trailblazers Open Access Books schemes 2026 intake. Publish your first monograph Open Access and learn valuable publishing skills. Find out more below 👇 www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/news...
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Publish your first Monograph with Trailblazers: Applications open for ECR scheme - Lancaster University
Applications are now open for Trailblazers Open Access Books schemes 2026 intake.
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🌟 Win a fully funded trip to #CopimConference Early‑career #librarians are invited to apply for one of 3 sponsored places 📍 London, UK 📅 26-27 February 2026 ⏳ Apply by Sunday 1 February 2026 🔗 copim.pub/sponsored-pl...
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Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim
Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Want to find out more? Listen to @nataliiak.bsky.social talk about her experience of winning a sponsored place to #UKSG2025 with @tmorley24.bsky.social over on the @uksg.bsky.social podcast 🎧 soundcloud.com/uksg-podcast...
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UKSG @uksg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Check out the new episode of Knowing Me, Knowing UKSG 🎙️In this episode we hear from Dr Samuel Moore (@samuelmoore.org) who discusses his varied career as a Scholarly Communications Specialist, bridging research, open access publishing, and his recently published book. dub.sh/EncwGkc
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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
If you missed our 2025 symposium, want to share it or simply bask in its glory again, fear not! The video recording, presentation slides and summary blog are all now available! Please share to help spread the word and good deeds of open institutional publishing. oipauk.org/news-events-...
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Event: OIPA Symposium 2025
Event: OIPA Symposium 2025 This page shares resources and information that came out of the online OIPA Symposium 2025, held on Tuesday 21st October 2025, 13:30-16:00 BST, online via Zoom. Video Rec…
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Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
**Upcoming workshop** Demystifying book publishing for ECRs: How to publish your research as a book Book your place here: lnkd.in/eAW2qQNC This workshop will help you to understand the publishing process for books and monographs and how to submit an effective proposal submission form.
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Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hello from Lancaster University Library! Fashionably late to this particular social media shindig, but finally here. Come and say hello!!
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Come and support the wonderful Copim gang whilst I’m on maternity leave! Happy to answer any q’s about the role ☺️
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Megan All Hallows Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social · 08/10/2025
📣OA event idea for December! ALN are looking for speakers and presentations focusing on Green OA (such as promoting, challenges, journals vs books and discoverability) Please let me know if you are interested or would like further information.💚
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Rebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Chuffed to see mine and @cathdishman.bsky.social's new article has been published! The team at UKSG Insights have been a dream to work with on this & we are so pleased to share our experiences of managing library-based hosting & publishing services. The article is completely #OpenAccess so enjoy!
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award. Here's a blog post for the Open Library of Humanities website outlining how we used the funding granted by the award to support our research culture activity relating to Open Access Books.
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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great post from Tom Morley at Lancaster Uni Lib re. using an @openlibhums.org Open Access Award grant 'to facilitate a research culture in which #OAbooks publishing is part of normal, everyday practice' Really practical, achievable steps to shift publication culture: www.openlibhums.org/news/861/
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Making Open Access Book publishing ‘Normal’
The OLH Open Access Award 2024 Awardee Report, authored by Tom Morley, Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the...
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I'm looking forward to speaking at this @operaseu.bsky.social event on Monday, there's still time to sign up! Strengthening open access through collaboration: building connections with OPERAS UK www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren...
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Strengthening open access through collaboration: building connections with OPERAS UK - Jisc
This event will bring together voices from across the UK open access (OA) landscape to examine current collaborations, identify opportunities for deeper engagement, and explore how collective efforts ...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
📣 We are delighted that ‪@lancasteruni.bsky.social‬ are now supporter members of @openingthefuture.bsky.social! Find out more about the sustainable #OA book initiative at: lup.openingthefuture.net @tmorley24.bsky.social‬ @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬ @jofitz.bsky.social‬‬ @copim.bsky.social
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Darren Flynn (he/him/his) @patchedelbows.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Another two #CALC25 recordings are coming out this morning: 1. Tom Morley of @lancasteruni.bsky.social describing working on culture change to Make Open Monographs 'Normal' #LibrarySky #CritLib #Skybrarians youtu.be/ELustLtuCSw
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Tom Morley - Making open monographs 'normal': open access monographs and open research culture
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
ALN Research Support are hosting an OA session in June - open to anyone to attend. It will explore how libraries are making the case for Open Access Books in the absence of a REF2029 mandate 📚 academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/event/suppor...
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Supporting and encouraging authors to publish Open Access Monographs with no REF2029 mandate - Academic Libraries North
Please note: the joining instructions for the event may come via the hosts for the event and will not always be available online. Please look out for the
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Megan All Hallows Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social · 19/05/2025
ALN Research Support are hosting an OA session in June - all organised by one of our group 😊 Free to attend, take a look 👇 @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social
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Supporting and encouraging authors to publish Open Access Monographs with no REF2029 mandate - Academic Libraries North
Please note: the joining instructions for the event may come via the hosts for the event and will not always be available online. Please look out for the
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The latest @uksg.bsky.social eNews editorial is out now 👉https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-584/creative-arts-researchers-give-them-the-credit/ If you're interested in contributing an editorial in future please get in touch at t.moley@lancaster.ac.uk
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Creative arts researchers: Give them the credit! - UKSG
This discussion piece is written by two research enabling staff who work at a small specialist creative arts Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the UK. Whilst undertaking this role it has come to l...
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Excited that we have joined @oipassoc.bsky.social! www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/news...
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Lancaster University Library joins Open Institutional Publishing Association  - Lancaster University
We are very proud to be a member of the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA)
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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📢 ALN Conference 2025 Call for Papers: deadline extended to 21 March!! There's a bit more time to submit a proposal for our next conference (18 June & 11 July 2025). Don't miss this excellent opportunity to present 😊 Further details at www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conferen... #ALN25
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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Watch this space! Registrations for the 2025 ALN Conference will be opening soon ☺️ #ALN25
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hot off the press! 🗞️ I interview @theblochian.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social in the latest episode of @uksg.bsky.social podcast series for the #ScholComms #Community 🎙️ Find it wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧 🔗 linktr.ee/uksgpodcast
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
And you can hear @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social interview Copim colleague @alittleroad.bsky.social for the same podcast series using the same link ▶️
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Join @clairemcgann.bsky.social and @tmorley24.bsky.social for the latest episode of Lancaster University Library's 'Talking around the library tree' podcast 🎙️ They discuss Lancaster's involvement in the Open Book Futures and celebrate what the project has achieved 🎉 🔗
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The Open Book Futures Project: An interview with Claire McGann
In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Claire McGann to discuss the Open Book Futures project, which aims to initiate a step-change in the ambition...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We are delighted to announce the first two contracted books in the Trailblazers initiative: 'A Degree of Modernism' by Simon James Hadfield, and 'Female Offending and the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire' by @craigstafford.bsky.social. Find out more via the LUP blog: bit.ly/Trailblazers-...
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UKSG @uksg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
More "Knowing Me, Knowing UKSG" @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social interviews Lucy Barnes, Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers. linktr.ee/uksgpodcast
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