The Archives Portal of Europe is an online gateway allowing you to search through and view the digitised holdings of 7,000 archival institutions across 30 European countries. Their collection of LGBT+ history displays many important and fascinating items www.archivesportaleurope.net/explore/high...
Today is #InternationalArchivesDay which celebrates the important contribution archives (especially make in safeguarding and providing access to our collective heritage and knowledge. As it's also Pride month, let's look at some fantastic #OpenArchive collections on LGBT+ life
My top pick for today: Queer in a Wee Place from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social which is all about our local Scottish context
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-in-...
Happy Pride month! We have a whole reading list of #OpenAccessBooks on LGBT+ issues, freshly updated for this year. Let us know if you have any great OA titles you think we should add abdn.leganto.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/publ...
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📢 @jisc.bsky.social will be running a seminar: ORCID for Researchers webinar – Tuesday 30 June 11:00-12:00 (BST/UTC+1)
This webinar will explain what the benefits are to researchers to have an ORDiD and how to use them effectively.
Register for the webinar at www.jisc.ac.uk/events/orcid...
The National Archives 'Queer Campaigning' collection offers a more narrow and highly curated look at the history of the struggle for Queer Liberation in the UK, providing a snapshot of that history www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
It's the final day of term for undergraduates! We wish you all a restful break, and try not to miss Aberdeen too much when you're sunning by the beach
Wonderful 👏
Offered for #NationalLimerickDay
Open Research for all is our task
But what are the benefits? you ask
FAIR access for all
That's not bad at all
Locking knowledge behind paywalls will be a thing of the past
It's election day for the Scottish Parliament, so if you're a resident here don't forget to vote today! And don't forget to tag any #DogsAtPollingStations because we're keeping an eye on them
You can find your polling place here, if you've forgotten your card wheredoivote.co.uk
In the course of campaigning for change various LGBTQ+ activists, charities and organisations have interacted with the government.
Queer in a Wee Place explores identity, inequality and belonging in animated conversations about how queerness moves through place – and how place, in turn, sha…
www.bloomsbury.com
Find out why getting a free ORCID iD and populating your ORCID record is key for researchers to get credit for their work.
Alt: Bert and Ernie are relaxing on a pool floaty together, Bert is playing the Ukulele and Ernie is sipping a cocktail. The caption says 'Summer Life'
😊 Great. This is fun. Hearfelt reply from someone without institutional access...
A journal once had a paywall
I was stuffed – could read nothing at all
But papers are seen
Open access via green
Yay! For authors that were on the ball
