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OAnick

Joined 9 October 2017

I'm Nick Sheppard. I work at the University of Leeds as Open Research Advisor. Previously I was Research Services Advisor at Leeds Beckett University and have also served as Technical Officer for the UK Council of Research Repositories.

I am interested in effective dissemination of research through sustainable models of open access, including underlying data, and potential synergies with open education and Open Educational Resources (OER), particularly underlying technology, software and interoperability of systems.

Conflict of Interest Statement

I, User:OAnick, am an employee of Leeds University Library, and a cultural institution per WikiProject GLAM . I accept the editing conditions specified at that page. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia.



  • Editathon: improve Wikipedia articles by adding cited facts. This can include creating new articles, but requires a combination of skills that people do not normally pick up in one session.
  • Transcribe-a-thon: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page, ‘the free library’, is a platform on which users create definitive electronic versions of public domain texts by correcting errors in optical character recognition (OCR). One event celebrating women in science created a text version of a paper and a booklet by the 19th-century scientist Mary Somerville.
  • Image-a-thon: participants make use of images from a freely licensed collection by identifying Wikipedia articles to add them to with an appropriate caption.

Poulter, M. and Sheppard, N., 2020. Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation. Insights: the UKSG journal, 33(1), p.14.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.509

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