Moving the dial on OER in the UK and Ireland: SCONUL OER CoP Webinar

On 22 January 2026, colleagues from across the UK came together to hear the latest developments with the OER Community of Practice for the UK and Ireland and to hear from libraries and academics who shared current best practice in the sector. This webinar highlighted solutions and discussed how SCONUL libraries can get more involved in driving OER initiatives in their libraries.  It also identifed demand and willingness for participation from institutions for future work.

Speakers were:

• Barb Thees, Director of Community Engagement, Open Education Network who will provide an update on the Community of Practice
• Irene Barranco Garcia, Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian at Imperial College London and Celine Peignen, Head Librarian at Technological University of the Shannon who will share their experiences of OERs in their libraries
• Academic OER authors Professor Jan Grabowski from University of Lancaster and Dr Alex Best from University of Sheffield
• Darrin Sabourin, Account Executive at Pressbooks on getting started with publishing
• Sue Hodgson, Strategic Advisor, Content Strategy at Sylla.

SCONUL members can access the recordng and resources here.