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New Video Introductions

04 September 2026

We’ve been working behind the scenes on our educational materials recently – more information to follow next week! – and today are excited to launch our new Video Introductions.

Six of the Friendly Guides have new videos:

The old videos remain available in our Vimeo library, if you want to refer back to them.

Coming soon

We’ll be making a new video introduction to COUNTER for OA when we update the Friendly Guide, which will be after the OA consultation closes. If you’ve not already replied to the consultation, get your skates on – you have until the 27th of September.

The Friendly Guide to Tech is also being edited, in line with other technical guides that are in development, so we’ve put that video on hold too.

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