White Rose Libraries

We're active on Bluesky - find us there at bsky.app/profile/whiter… We'll still be checking in on X, but most of our activity will be on Bluesky for the foreseeable. Come say hi! 💙

Happy birthday to #CharlesDickens, who was born #onthisday in 1812! It's a great day to celebrate this great English writer's enduring legacy - fortunately we've got a book that does just that! Check out this #openaccess monograph on the WRUP website: universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/e/1…

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 PhD Spotlight competition: 🥇 1st - Fedor Topolev-Soldunov 🥈 2nd - Minahil Khan 🥉 3rd - Brandon Daniel Tipper ✨ People's choice - Minahil Khan Read more all the finalists, york.ac.uk/research/gradu… #YorkTalks @UoYYGRS @bric_york

📅 Date: 21 January 2025, 12-1pm 📍 Location: Online via Zoom 👉 Click here to register for this event: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #OpenResearch #OpenAccessFuture #AcademicPublishing

Exciting news from @WRUniPress !

New year, new us? Read all about our new website and branding here: whiteroselibraries.org/2025/01/06/whi…

It's here! Following a rebranding process, WRL is pleased to announce the launch of our new website! Head to whiteroselibraries.org to find out about our current activities, check out our latest news and reports, and more!

📣We're excited to work with all three prizewinners of the 2024 Sheffield Doctoral Publishing Prize! Many congratulations indeed to Yiyun Liu, Lucas Gastiarena and Owen Gurrey PhD graduates in Music, Education & English respectively.

Read the full announcement here: sheffield.ac.uk/library/open-a…

White Rose Libraries is starting to wind down for Christmas, so we won't be around much on here until January. See you next year!

🎉 Some exciting news! Not only can you follow us here on X, but you can now find us on other platforms too. Check us out here!🦋 bsky.app/profile/wrunip…

Watch this space for news of our website launch - coming soon to a browser near you!

You might notice we've got a bit of a new look - check out the new logo on our profile! We're currently undergoing some rebranding work, including updating our logo and our website (see our recent post for a sneak peek...) But don't worry - we're still the same old WRL 🤠

#DontForget to #SaveTheDate! University of Sheffield. Opening up practice-based research. 4 December 2024. Online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-up-p…

You may have noticed the White Rose Libraries website is currently out of action - but don't worry, we'll be back soon! We're in the process of building a new, accessible and engaging website where you can find information on all of our activities, so watch this space...

We had a fantastic time with @WRUniPress at the @oipassoc Symposium back in June - you can now read a full summary of the event on the @UKSG eNews site. Looking forward to more events like this in the future! uksg.org/newsletter/uks…

Continuing to highlight teams supporting your research journey… 📣 The Open Research team provides online and in-person support to Postgraduate Researchers through individual appointments, departmental meetings and training workshops. Find out more at york.ac.uk/library/resear…

📢#StepUp, it's #UPWeek ! University press publications educate, enlighten, motivate, and inspire. Here are some of our latest #openaccess books that deal with current issues and global challenges. Download them from our website! tinyurl.com/DownloadHromaz… tinyurl.com/DownloadBiopow…

Great resource from @LancasterUniLib !

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! #digipres Check out the listed events organised by different communities in different regions throughout the day on 7th Nov. dpconline.org/events/world-d…