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Spoiler: yes, it is. Well at least it was for me. Let me tell you why. ‘We’re open’ signs are a ubiquitous part of our physical environment. Corner shops, bookmakers (or ‘bookies’), cafes, grocers, fishmongers, burger vans, all indicate that they are open to the public, open for business and…

As an experienced administrator on the Medicine programme at the University of Manchester, I’ve seen plenty of students come and go, but it was only after embarking on the OKHE course unit that I stopped to think about how profoundly technology has affected the student experience since my uni days…

Want to hear a really important idea for the 21st century? Published research that is ‘Open Access’ can be accessed by anyone at all. Goodbye ivory tower! …

The practice of open knowledge in higher education is something — as a member of Professional Services working on the technical side of student support — I didn’t really give much thought to. As a student, it seems I also took it for granted as the idea of accessing and…

“Covid-19 has separated offices, hubs and communities and caused a monumental shift in how social exchanges take place amongst staff in higher education.” Simon Abbott Simon’s statement really resonated with me, as I’m sure it does with many who were used to working on campus with their colleagues and in March 2020 found themselves suddenly working remotely. …

I work in the field of Biomedical Egyptology or as it is probably better known Mummy Studies, a field that should be at the forefront of open knowledge. The general public after all know so much about ancient Egyptian mummies based on a seemingly endless parade of documentaries, popular books…

Currently, I work as a PostDoc researcher at The University of Manchester (UoM), UK after completing PhD at IITM, India; both in STEM. Being a researcher, I need the research documents (journal papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, patents) to review the work done by different people before designing conducting the…

Initially, interlending appears to epitomise open practice. It is open in an honest sense, in that libraries admit the limitations of their holdings, and look to other institutions to supply their readers with their requested items. Historically, this has been in the form of a copy, either paper or, more…

In 2019, I decided that I wanted to learn Korean. There were a couple of reasons for this: Firstly, I had been practicing taekwondo for a couple of years and in order to pass my next grading and obtain my blue belt, I was going to need to answer questions…