OxFOS 2025 now open for booking
The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship
Monday 3 March - Thursday 13 March 2025
What in the world is going on with open access and open research?
Organised by the Bodleian Libraries in partnership with the Research Practice team and Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx), the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS) is a programme of talks, panels, workshops and events. It is a chance to learn how and why to make your research open, transparent and accessible. Every event is free to attend and open to all. Events will be a combination of online and in person in Oxford. The full programme and registration links are below, or you can view the full programme as a Google doc here.
This year we are delighted to welcome Chris Smith, Executive Chair of AHRC; Alex Freeman, of Octopus.ac scientific publishing; Sally Rumsey, formerly OA expert at Jisc; Beth Montague-Hellen, Head of Information Services, Francis Crick Institute; Brian Nosek, founder of the Open Science Framework; and John Willinsky, founder of the Public Knowledge Project, among many many others.
The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship is led by a Steering Group and supported by a Planning Team, drawn from various university admin and library teams.
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Programme and Registration
Click the registration buttons to read full information including abstracts and speaker biographies for each event, and to register. In-person events (which all take place on Monday 3 March, and Tuesday 11-Wednesday 12 March) will be in the Lecture Theatre at the Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford. Find accessibility information here. All times are Oxford/UK time, GMT.
Every OxFOS event is free to attend and open to all; for iSkills workshops please email the address given on the registration page if you do not have an Oxford SSO.
| Monday 3 March 2025 | |||
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| 10:00-11:30 | iSkills: Fundamentals of Open Access [online] | Sarah Humphreys | Register for online event |
| 13:00-14:30 | The Innovation that Follows Open Scholarship: Examples from eLife and the Public Knowledge Project [in person] | John Willinsky, Godwyns Onwuchekwa | Register for in-person event |
| 15:00-16:00 | How To Start and Manage a Journal on the World’s Most Widely Used (Free) Journal Platform OJS [in person] | John Willinsky | Register for in-person event |
| 17:00-19:00 | Keynote talk: As Open as Possible, As Permanent as Necessary: Towards the Sustainability of Openness [in person, followed by a drinks reception] | Christopher Smith, introduced by Richard Ovenden | Register for in-person event |
| Tuesday 4 March 2025 | |||
| 10:00-11:30 | iSkills: Copyright [online] | Chris Morrison | Register for online event |
| 13:00-14:30 | Economics and Experiments in Open Access Publishing [online] |
Martin Eve, Janneke Adema, Ronald Snijder |
Register for online event |
| Wednesday 5 March 2025 | |||
| 10:30-11:30 | iSkills: Open Monographs [online] | David Watson | Register for online event |
| 13:00-14:00 | Research Data Management - Show & Tell [online] |
RDM Staff |
Register for online event |
| Thursday 6 March 2025 | |||
| 10:00-11:30 | iSkills: ORCIDs from Scratch [online] | Neil Jefferies | Register for online event |
| 13:00-14:30 | Introduction to Carpentries [online] | Various Carpentries tutors | Register for online event |
| Friday 7 March 2025 | |||
| 10:00-11:30 | Building Open Research Communities [online] |
Anna Guttesen, Charles Rahal |
Register for online event |
| 13:30-14:30 | Redefining Scientific Publishing [online] |
Brian Nosek, Alex Freeman, Allyson Lister |
Register for online event |
| Monday 10 March 2025 | |||
| 13:30-14:30 | How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science [online] |
Paul Ayris, Tiberius Ignat |
Register for online event |
| 15:00-16:00 | Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact [online] |
Sarah Callaghan, Alis Oancea |
Register for online event |
| Tuesday 11 March 2025 | |||
| 10:00-11:30 | iSkills: Pre-Registration and Registered Reports [online] | Jackie Thompson | Register for online event |
| 15:00-16:30 | Open Knowledge Infrastructure [in person] |
Wolfram Horstman, Caroline Edwards |
Register for in-person event |
| 17:00-18:30 | Lightening Talks [in person] | Various speakers | Register for in-person event |
| Wednesday 12 March 2025 | |||
| 10:30-12.30 | Past and Present of Open [in person] |
Sally Rumsey, Beth Montague-Hellen, Jenni Adams, Ric Campbell |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Reproducible Research Oxford lunch [catered, in person] | The RROx team | Register for in-person event |
| 13:30-15:00 | The Future of Open [in person] | Scott Taylor, other speakers tbc | Register for in-person event |
| 15:30-17:00 | Would I lie to you? The Open Scholarship Edition [in person] | Various | Register for in-person event |
| 17:00-19:00 | Posters & Wine [in person] | Various | Register for in-person event |
| Thursday 13 March 2024 | |||
| 10:00-11:30 | Peer Reviewing Peer Review [online] | Nick De Vito | Register for online event |
| 13:00-14:00 | The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view [online] |
Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence |
Register for online event |
