OxFOS 2025
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 the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS) is a programme of talks, panels, workshops and events. 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.
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.
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 13:30-14:30 | Redefining Scientific Publishing [online] |
Brian Nosek, Alex Freeman, Allyson Lister |
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| Monday 10 March 2025 | |||
| 13:30-14:30 | How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science [online] |
Paul Ayris, Tiberius Ignat |
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| 15:00-16:00 | Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact [online] |
Sarah Callaghan, Alis Oancea |
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| 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 |
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| 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] | 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 |
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