The wonderful Rhiannon Bull (who our Outwith team has had the pleasure of working with!) has just put out a call for participants! You can contribute online or, if you're lucky to be in Edinburgh, you can sign up to their workshop series. Learn more on their beautiful site:
www.climatestories.co.uk

Keep Your Research Data Safe.
Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm.
Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.

Want to learn how? Come along to our all new Research Data Service Workshops: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup....

Stickers! Who doesn't like stickers? We've made some Open Research and Research Data Management themed stickers to adorn your notebook/laptop/water bottle/whatever else you can (legally and ethically) attach stickers to. We will be giving them away at future events, so look out for them!

New post on the Edinburgh Research Data Blog from Research Data Support Assistant, Keith Munro. They reflect on their experience at the International Conference on Concepts of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), hosted by the University of Strathclyde.

edin.ac/4kJo9HE

Are you a UoE researcher (or research-adjacent person) or student with a passion for Open Research and reproducibility? The Edinburgh Open Research Initiative are seeking volunteers for a number of exciting new roles (1-2 hours/month commitment, flexible). Sign up: forms.office.com/e/cB8wB93gnb

If you want to attend the Open Research Conference,get tickets while you still can! Available here: in person edin.ac/3YMkxfU or online streaming edin.ac/3YLFSWF

Latest Edinburgh Open Research newsletter is out today, featuring details of the upcoming Open Research Conference; a pair of events from CAHSS and the Participatory Research Network; as well as updates on a new O.R. Statement and a new CoARA Action Plan.

Sign up for newsletter: edin.ac/3MU36Bq

Worried about the current US administration's impact on research? Robin Rice's blog post details efforts by the Data Rescue Project in saving important research data that could be lost amidst cuts to funding and topics that are deemed antithetical to the administration's ideology.

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We're really lucky today - we get to yell about a fantastic participatory research project not once - but twice! Empowered Journeys is explores representations of breast cancer surgery through the lens of lived experience.

Sarah, The Hopeful Woman, 2024
© Sarah Browne, 2024

Did you know the University of Edinburgh library has its own publishing platform dedicated to Open Access research? You do now!

Edinburgh Diamond offers free publishing services to support Diamond Open Access books and journals created by University of Edinburgh academics, staff and students. (1/2)

Did you know that Research Data Support has it’s own blog? Even better - we just posted a new post! This one is from Keith, who highlights one of the more unusual datasets from DataShare (the research data repository). This set features, erm, videos of people not moving. https://buff.ly/3QiYLLY

[1/3] This week, we'll be meeting our Research Data Services Team - through the lens of the unnervingly stylish Simon Smith [he/him]. Simon is one of the key Research Data Support Officers, often found roaming the University offering training and guidance how to manage your data.

As part of our team introductions, we'd like to introduce Monika Barrera (she/her) our Research Information Systems Support Assistant! She joined Research Information Systems in 2022 where she is the first point of contact for the team, triaging queries and requests, providing user support and more!

Not to brag (but to brag - we did wait a week after setting these accounts up...), did you know that Library Research Support is an award-winning team, and won a 2024 Times Higher Education award for Outstanding Library Team? Here are some of the team accepting the award #ProudLibrarians

We have had some really fantastic submissions for the Edinburgh Open Research Conference, 2025 - but we are keen for more! What OR Barriers do you face? How have you overcome them?

Send us your submission by Midnight Wednesday 12th of February on the webform: https://buff.ly/3Cjcuzb

Hello and welcome to one of our new Library Research Support socials! Follow us to keep up to date with news, updates, and activities from our team. In the coming weeks, we'll be introducing all of our teams and what we do - along with a few of our team members!