This October, the OSC were awarded a £2k grant from the by the West Hub Small Grants Programme to run their community-led open scholarship event in 2025.
This event, planned for late spring, aims to focus on the self-organised research communities across the University who publish their own journals. They form a researcher-controlled alternative to academic publishing.
Attendees will be offered a hybrid session from speakers on community-led publishing in the morning, and join a practical in-person workshop on how researchers can publish their own journals in the afternoon.
The grant will allow OSC to hold the event in the West Hub, and offer free places to those inside and outside the University.
We aim to be back with more news in our next January edition of the Open Research Newsletter.