Seminars and events

  • Open Access Week 2024

    Tuesday 22nd October, 2pm-3pm, Library

    Open access publishing: your options explained:  Come along to discover your open access publishing options. Staff from the Library's Research and Open Scholarship team will explain both traditional and open access publishing models and highlight the available options as well as sources of support. 

    Wednesday 23rd October, 2-4pm, Library 

    Film screening: The Internet's Own Boy. Join us in the library seminar room for a screening of The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. It’s ten years since this biographical documentary was released, so it’s a great time to look back at the tragically short life of internet activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz was an Open Access trailblazer who’s since become seen as something of a martyr for the movement. 

    Thursday 24th October, 11-11:30am, online 

    Open publishing at Sussex: community over commercialization. Join us to explore some of the advantages of open publishing. Listen to our speakers explain why they chose the open access route to publication and how it benefited them, and hear how the Library at Sussex can help you to publish open access.  

  • Summer of Research 202411 June 2024, 11-12:00 Online Opening up....peer review . 

    Further information on the Summer of Research 2024 

  • Library Open Research Seminars

    11 June 2024, 11-12:00. Opening up peer review. What role does peer review have in a more open scholarly environment? Peer review is vital in academic publishing, ensuring that scholarly work is rigorously evaluated by an author’s peers before making its way out into the world. So how does it apply to the innovations of the digital age? Speakers from PREreview and Peer Community In, two organisations at the forefront of open peer review will discuss how open peer review can help hone your evaluative skills, contribute to a fairer review system, and help your career progression. View the recording. 

    24th October 2023 15:00-16:30. Hot off the Press: shifting the dial towards more variety in open publishing at Sussex. A Library Open Research Seminar on the University’s community-led publishing initiatives on our Open Press. We’ll hear lightning talks from a range of Sussex collaborators who’ve published dynamic, boundary-shifting, Open Access research in a wonderful variety of formats. View the recording.  

    29th June 2023, 14:00-15:30. Online. 'My heart is an open book’: the opportunities & challenges of Open Access for monographs and longform research - Lucy Barnes (COPIM), Emma Gallon (University of London Press), Michelle Lefevre (University of Sussex)  View the recording. 

    27th March 2023 -In the right(s) place at the right(s) time: exploring author rights in academic publishing - Dr Maria Mercedes Frabboni and Stephen Englen (University of Cambridge). View the recording

  • Research Hive Seminars 2021
    • 30 March 2021 - Digital Communities: connecting researchers at a distance - Katherine Stephan, Tyler Shores and Dr Natalia Cecire - Watch here
    • 20 April 2021 - Own it: The impact of right retention - Sally Rumsey & Johan Rooryck, Prof Martin Eve and Dr Maria Mercedes Frabboni - Watch here 
    • 24 May 2021 - Exploring DORA: responsible metrics, research evaluation and you - Dr Lizzie Gadd and Prof Robin Banerjee - Watch here 
    • 9 June 2021 - Thank you, next: the future of research assessment - Dr Catriona Firth and Prof Alis Oancea - Watch here