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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The event was a great series of discussions between a small but close-knit group of experts from local institutions. It was a good opportunity for members of the community to come together to discuss issues freely with no agenda. We hope to do something similar again next year to continue dialogue!

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

A new development is that Satellite events are being held around the world to evaluate the broadcast talks, which were available within 24 hours on the OAI14 website - oai.events/oai14/. On 27 November, a Satellite event took place in London and the report is at blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

OAI14, a week-long series of global Open Science webinars, took place on 10-14 November. 465 unique individual logins took place during the week and there were 819 participant interactions. There was an average of 164 participants per webinar.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It will be published in Open Access by UCL Press. As such, it is the first bishop's Register ever to be published in OA since publication began in the 19th century. In 2 volumes, the Register charts the path the Church in England took to embrace Protestant reform - a major cultural change.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Delighted to announce that my new book on Thomas Cranmer is being published in Open Access by UCL Press on 19 January 2026. See uclpress.co.uk/book/thomas-.... A Register is a record of formal acts as bishop/archbishop.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

From autism and dyslexia to dementia and Tourette’s Syndrome; each episode offers fresh perspectives and practical insights. New episodes will be available every Wednesday morning between now and Christmas. See uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl... #UCLPress #UCLPressPlay

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UCL Press Play

UCL Press Play is a new initiative presenting documentary videos and podcasts featuring aspects of UCL’s sector-leading research, and casting light on the contribution UCL makes to society.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hosted by Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project, the series brings together leading voices from across UCL to uncover fascinating facts, challenge misconceptions, and share strategies for building a more inclusive society.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The 2nd podcast & documentary series from UCL Press Play has landed! Asking 'how well do we really understand the human mind?', Beautiful Minds – The Greatest Good dives deeply into the complexities of human cognition & neurodiversity, covering topics of great interest.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Many thanks to the Scientific Committee, & the Local Organising Committee in Geneva. Members are listed at oai.events/oai14/. We will be circulating an Evaluation Form to all attenders, asking for feedback on the #OAI14 sessions & organisation. This will help us plan for #OAI15 in 2 years time!

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

These are being organised in Australia & Hong Kong over 3 days, Switzerland, Germany, & the UK. In the section 'Views from around the World' at oai.events/oai14/, there are further presentations setting #OAI14 themes in a wider context. These emanate from the UK/Europe, China and Singapore.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

#OAI14 has now come to a close. Over 500 individuals signed in to join sessions during the week. All the recordings will be available at oai.events/oai14/ going forwards. 5 watch parties have been organised to study the talks in greater depth - see oai.events/oai14/satell... for details.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Presentations were on: - Retractions - Tackling fraudulent research - the Impact of AI - Putting humans at the centre of Open Science - AI-ready and FAIR data - Latin American perspectives on research integrity The video recording of the session will be available at oai.events/oai14/ imminently.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Day5 of #OAI14 was devoted to the theme of research integrity. 109 attenders logged in online from a wide range of countries, including Poland, Germany, UK, France, India, The Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Peru, Italy, Colombia, Belgium and Argentina.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Day5 is devoted to the theme of Research Integrity. The starting times are: 5:00-8:00 PDT | 9:00-12:00 CLT | 13:00-16:00 GMT | 14:00-17:00 CET | 23:00-02:00 AEST

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The subjects of the presentations were: - (Inter)national enterprise agendas - how do these sit alongside Open Science? - Clarivate's approach to Open Science - Next-Generation Open Access: a view from Jisc - The Directory of Open Access Books

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#OAI14 Day 4 was devoted to the theme of Commercialization and Open Science. See oai.events/oai14/. There were 4 presentations and an in-depth Panel discussion. The recording of the session is now available at oai.events/oai14/#sessi...

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Topics covered were: - (Inter)national enterprise agendas - how do these sit alongside Open Science? - Clarivate's approach to Open Science - Next-Generation Open Access: a view from Jisc - The Directory of Open Access Books

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#OAI14 Day 4 was devoted to the theme of Commercialization and Open Science. See oai.events/oai14/. There were 4 presentations and an in-depth Panel discussion. There were 105 attenders, from countries such as The Netherlands, UK, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, India and Poland.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The topics were: - Small Language models - Licensing & the significance of the SA CC licence - FAIR2 - built around AI readiness & responsibilities - Support for African languages in Natural Language Processing - Digital literacy training - New search tools, looking at the INSPIRE-HEP database

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The recording for #OAI14 Day3, on AI and Open Science, is now available on the OAI14 website. See oai.events/oai14/. A particularly scintillating session, well worth watching!

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#Day3 of #OAI14, on Commercialization and Open Science, starts shortly: 1:00-4:00 PDT | 5:00-8:00 CLT | 9:00-12:00 GMT | 10:00-13:00 CET | 19:00-22:00 AEST #OAI14

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The recordings for #Day2 of #OAI14 on Open Science are available. See lnkd.in/eX-22FcV The theme for #Day2 was Open Infrastructures. The talks covered: - Building an Open Science infrastructure in Africa - Managing large open data platforms - PID infrastructure for Open Science in China - Open Alex

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#Day 3, on Commercialization and Open Science, starts shortly: 1:00-4:00 PDT | 5:00-8:00 CLT | 9:00-12:00 GMT | 10:00-13:00 CET | 19:00-22:00 AEST

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The 3-hr session today was scintillating, as Open Science meets AI. The result was a plethora of ideas and initiatives which could enrich the research environment globally. The recording will be available on the #OAI14 website in 24-48 hrs. See oai.events/oai14/ for more details.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

139 people signed in to the session from a variety of countries, which included Venezuela, Colombia, USA, Chile, UK, Latvia, Mexico, Italy, Argentina, Switzerland & Ecuador. The event was hybrid, with a face-to-face event in Geneva running simultaneously.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Day 3 of #OAI14 studied AI & Open Science. Topics were: - Small Language models - The potential of the SA CC licence - FAIR2 - built around AI readiness & responsible practices - African languages in Natural Language Processing - Digital literacy training - New search tools in High Energy Physics

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The challenges, however, are significant - technical, financial, political, strategic.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In both Africa and Europe, we have models for delivering cloud services over high speed networks. The use of PIDs in China shows how important consistency is to deliver Open Science solutions. Open Alex is making its presence felt, giving access to 462,000,000 works.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Day 2 of #OAI14 was devoted to Open Infrastructures - see oai.events/oai14/ with offerings from African and European research infrastructures, China and a talk on the global development of Open Alex. 115 people attended from places such as Germany, China, UK, India, Switzerland, Ecuador & Bolivia.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The recording of the 1st day's session on Research Security and Open Science from #OAI14 is now available. See oai.events/oai14/. Day 2 is devoted to Open Infrastructures and begins: 6:00-9:00 PDT | 10:00-13:00 CLT | 14:00-17:00 GMT | 15:00-18:00 CET | 00:00-03:00 (Nov. 12) AEST

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The many positive comments from participants in the session showed that Research Security was a matter of vital concern to Open Science supporters. See oai.events/oai14/ for details of all the sessions in OAI14 this week. #OAI14

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What does this mean in practice? The panel, in a lively & informed discussion, agreed that it was a question of balance: openness & the new geo-political realities. Was education the way forward, with mandatory training on Research Security and how to deliver it being part of the answer?

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

OAI14 began today on Research Security. 127 attenders signed in during the 2.5 hr session - from Canada, Mexico, Italy, India, UK, Ecuador, Bolivia, USA, Puerto Rica, Guatemala & Latvia. This session looked at Open Science in terms of the dictum 'As Open as possible, as Closed as necessary'.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Themes for the week are: - Research Security - Open Infrastructure - AI in Open Science - Commercialization and Open Science - Research Integrity - Views from around the world Over 1300 people are already registered from 80 countries and territories from across the world.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The 14th meeting of the global Open Science community, OAI14, runs 10-14 Nov. There are 5 sessions and the details are listed on the website at oai.events/oai14/. Each session looks at a cutting edge theme in current Open Science developments. Registration is free and still open at oai.events.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Episodes are at uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl.... Everything is being made accessible across major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify & SoundCloud, plus wider distribution to other podcast platforms via transistor.fm. Video versions can be found via the UCL Press YouTube channel.

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UCL Press Play

UCL Press Play is a new initiative presenting documentary videos and podcasts featuring aspects of UCL’s sector-leading research, and casting light on the contribution UCL makes to society.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

UCL Press Play is, once again, influenced by the thinking of the 19th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Season 2, Beautiful Minds – The Greatest Good, looks at the following question: ‘How much do we understand the human mind?’ Uncover facts about the mind with our expert speakers.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Series 2 of UCL Press Play has now launched and episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays. The purpose of UCL Press Play is to highlight the importance of UCL research; it is also designed to spotlight where possible such outputs/outcomes in the Open Access publishing activity of UCL Press.

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UCL Press Play is a new initiative presenting documentary videos and podcasts featuring aspects of UCL’s sector-leading research, and casting light on the contribution UCL makes to society.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I described the OA monograph model that UCL Press has adopted, and compared it to our OA journal and new textbook models. I ended the talk by looking at the work that the Press is undertaking to develop policies for the use of AI in journals (lnkd.in/e3B5nQUj) and Monographs (lnkd.in/ec7c323E).

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Joined today, virtually, the Focus on Open Science event held in Budapest by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the global Focus on Open Science series of webinars. The theme was 'AI in Research and Libraries: Driving Quality through Open Science'. I spoke about the 10th anniversary of UCL Press.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of UCL's Small Press collections. UCL has collected widely in this area of independent radical publishing to preserve the outputs of these activities. The collections comprise 4,500 periodicals and 20,000 pamphlets. Watch a new celebratory video at lnkd.in/eAhT7M6t.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian & Sudanese archaeology in UCL is one of the largest of such collections anywhere. It holds the world's oldest woven garment, a 'dress' which is 5,000 years old. Discover more at faces-of-ucl.transistor.fm/episodes/epi..., led by UCL's President & Provost Michael Spence.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The theme for Open Access Week 2025 was “Who Owns Our Knowledge?" Citizen Science provides a powerful lens to assess how knowledge is co-produced with communities. The recording for this UCL Open Science webinar is now available. See blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/.... @uclopenscience.bsky.social

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

2026 will be the 200th anniversary of the foundation of UCL (University College London). 3 Open Access volumes have been commissioned from UCL Press on student life, UCL research, and the architecture of UCL's buildings. See www.ucl.ac.uk/about/ucls-b... for further details. All to appear in 2026.

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Prejudice in Power (www.ucl.ac.uk/prejudice-in...) is a programme responding to UCL’s historic role in promoting eugenics. An exhibition has been installed by UCL LCCOS (Library, Culture, Collections, Open Science) in the Student Centre, with a Digital Exhibition - see www.ucl.ac.uk/prejudice-in...

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

UCL LCCOS (Library, Culture, Collections, Open Science) issues its 2023/24 Annual Report. See www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/about-...

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Paul Ayris @ucylpay.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Professor Muki Haklay, UCL Geography, talking on competencies at today's UCL Citizen Science Community event, organised by the UCL Open Science Office. This first event is designed to build pan-UCL networks and to further embed Citizen Science and participative Science into the UCL research agenda.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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