News archive
All Central Medical Library news in a glance:
| Published on: | 06 December 2023 |
CMB closed from December 23 to January 4
| Published on: | 13 November 2023 |
Springer Nature OA deal: annual quota reached
| Published on: | 31 October 2023 |
Celebrate openness on 23 November
| Published on: | 28 September 2023 |
Springer Nature open access deal: annual quota approaching
| Published on: | 27 September 2023 |
Complete Anatomy replaces Anatomy TV (formerly Primal Pictures)
| Published on: | 27 September 2023 |
The University of Groningen Library (UB) and the Open Science Community Groningen (OSCG) organize the annual Open Research Award to celebrate open research practices.
| Published on: | 27 September 2023 |
100,000th PURE publication has been entered
| Published on: | 26 September 2023 |
NTvG will stop offering subscriptions for institutions
| Published on: | 19 September 2023 |
Artificial Intelligence in medical research and education
| Published on: | 10 July 2023 |
CMB Zorg Lunch session: medical (e) books, how and where
| Published on: | 03 July 2023 |
What’s your idea for making the CMB more sustainable? Pass it on to Green CMB!
| Published on: | 26 June 2023 |
UMCG/UG global leader in the field of open access according to Leiden Ranking
| Published on: | 14 June 2023 |
The UG’s Open Access Book Fund is expected to run out by the end of May 2023. The fund was very successful, with 48 applications received since the fund’s launch in February 2022.
| Published on: | 01 June 2023 |
Problems with Endnote on UMCG network
| Published on: | 24 April 2023 |
Until 23 May, you can make use of a trial of the APA PsycTests database.
| Published on: | 09 March 2023 |
New agreement for the reuse of copyright material for education
| Published on: | 09 March 2023 |
New: LibCal Interactive Maps: reserve your study place in the library by clicking on a spot on the map
| Published on: | 02 February 2023 |
Book fair CMB: target amount achieved!
| Published on: | 10 January 2023 |
New licenses: Oxford Scholarship Online and Oxford Clinical Psychology
| Published on: | 02 January 2023 |
We still have a lot of 2nd hand books for sale in the hallway at CMB Zorg (Y4, near the zebra stripes) and medical books in the CMB Library
| Published on: | 19 December 2022 |
Christmas book fair from 19 - 22 December
| Published on: | 13 December 2022 |
Christmas break Central Medical Library
| Published on: | 21 November 2022 |
Springer Nature OA deal: annual quota reached
| Published on: | 14 November 2022 |
Christmas Book Market December 2019
| Published on: | 26 October 2022 |
UMCG-winners at Open Research Award 2022
| Published on: | 10 October 2022 |
First book by open access book fund
| Published on: | 05 October 2022 |
Basiswerkplek does not provid direct access to the digital library
| Published on: | 26 September 2022 |
RUG/UMCG score the highest with 94% Open Access publications
| Published on: | 19 September 2022 |
Springer Nature open access deal: annual quota approaching
| Published on: | 26 August 2022 |
Pure not available on August 29th and 30th.
| Published on: | 12 July 2022 |
New dates CMB-workshops ánd a new workshop
| Published on: | 12 July 2022 |
Different opening hours CMB during the Summer Holidays
| Published on: | 16 June 2022 |
New licence Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry
| Published on: | 20 May 2022 |
The Library Guides of the CMB and the University Library have been given a new look
| Published on: | 18 May 2022 |
Questions on copyright? Ask the Copyright Information Point
| Published on: | 21 April 2022 |
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 21st edition available now
| Published on: | 02 March 2022 |
Open access book fund launched for UG and UMCG authors
| Published on: | 28 February 2022 |
Trial Springer protocols (life and biomedical sciences)
| Published on: | 08 February 2022 |
New trial subscription to NEJM Evidence
| Published on: | 08 February 2022 |
Open Science Programme UG and UMCG: newsletter and website
| Published on: | 13 January 2022 |
No more 'read and publish deal' with publisher BMJ
| Published on: | 11 January 2022 |
As of January 2022, UG/UMCG authors can benefit from new Read & Publish agreements the University of Groningen and the UMCG closed with publishers Rockefeller University Press, John Benjamins and the Future Science Group.
| Published on: | 17 December 2021 |
Refworks has updated their Word-plug in ‘Write-n-Cite’ and with this update they disabled all earlier versions. In the UMCG this newest version is not yet installed and thus Refworks can not be used at the moment in Word. We have requested that the update is installed as quickly as possible and we hope this will resolve the problem soon.
| Published on: | 16 December 2021 |
The CMB is closed from 27 until 31 december
| Published on: | 09 December 2021 |
New dates CMB workshops and webinars
| Published on: | 26 October 2021 |
Springer Nature open access deal: annual quota reached
| Published on: | 20 September 2021 |
ONLINE Research Data Management Awareness Workshop on November 23
| Published on: | 02 September 2021 |
The CMB temporarily has a different main entrance
| Published on: | 31 August 2021 |
The annual Open Research Award organized by the University of Groningen Library and the Open Science Community Groningen celebrates the many ways in which academics make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible. Call for submission open until 15 September.
| Published on: | 26 August 2021 |
Open Research Award programme online on October 28th
| Published on: | 22 July 2021 |
Springer Nature OA deal: approaching annual quota
| Published on: | 07 July 2021 |
New e-journal: Science & Medicine in Football
| Published on: | 24 June 2021 |
The open access support teams of the University Library and Central Medical Library have recently come across four cases of predatory/fraudulent publishing behaviour at the expense of UG/UMCG authors.
| Published on: | 24 June 2021 |
Rising uptake of open access at the UG/UMCG
| Published on: | 08 June 2021 |
The new call for submissions is now open!
| Published on: | 11 May 2021 |
Changes My NCBI account Pubmed as of June 1
| Published on: | 04 May 2021 |
Special edition Open Science Newsletter, April 2021
| Published on: | 17 March 2021 |
ONLINE Research Data Management Awareness Workshop
| Published on: | 09 March 2021 |
Agreement between Dutch research institutions and Elsevier gives UMCG researchers many additional opportunities to publish open access for free
| Published on: | 24 February 2021 |
Latest edition Open Science Newsletter Februari 2021
| Published on: | 23 February 2021 |
New way of displaying UG (and UMCG) research output
| Published on: | 22 February 2021 |
New: BioCyc, a collection of Pathway/Genome databases
| Published on: | 16 February 2021 |
How do I find the bést information? A web guide to intelligent search (in Dutch).
| Published on: | 08 February 2021 |
Mini symposium: Open Science and Research Data
| Published on: | 04 February 2021 |
The library offers hunderds of recent medical e-books per subject
| Published on: | 01 February 2021 |
Mendeley is working on Windows 10 computers again.
| Published on: | 11 January 2021 |
ONLINE Research Data Management Awareness Workshop
| Published on: | 05 January 2021 |
You now have access to Lexicomp Online, Wolters Kluwer's Drug Decision Support.
| Published on: | 29 December 2020 |
Mendeley not working currently momenteel on Windows 10 computers; use Toegang.umcg.nl
For more info and all other support on reference management > refman@umcg.nl
| Published on: | 15 December 2020 |
Request medical books, pick up at the University Library
| Published on: | 10 December 2020 |
Special edition Open Science Newsletter
| Published on: | 09 December 2020 |
Christmas & New Year CMB opening hours
| Published on: | 03 December 2020 |
Maximum number of open access articles Oxford University Press has been reached
| Published on: | 20 November 2020 |
Working with EndNote in Word on the UMCG network is going to change
| Published on: | 11 November 2020 |
The Anatomy Gym is an educational game where you can brush up on your anatomy knowledge
| Published on: | 09 November 2020 |
Pure: update & more automation in news items
| Published on: | 30 October 2020 |
Don't open journals, e-books and other online resources at your UMCG workplace with Internet Explorer. Use another browser!
| Published on: | 22 October 2020 |
We now have access to Visible Body's Human Anatomy Atlas, a comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body.
| Published on: | 08 October 2020 |
Open Science Newsletter October 2020
| Published on: | 05 October 2020 |
Online Research Data Management Awareness workshop
| Published on: | 01 October 2020 |
Three case studies for the Open Research Award
| Published on: | 24 September 2020 |
Open Research Award - Celebrating openness
| Published on: | 23 September 2020 |
Effective immediately, UG-authors are entitled to a discount when publishing open access in one of the 271 journals from publisher MDPI. Corresponding authors from the UG will receive a 10% discount on the article processing charge. The only condition is that authors use a clear UG-affiliation when submitting articles.
| Published on: | 14 September 2020 |
Upcoming changes in REFWORKS on the UMCG network
| Published on: | 10 September 2020 |
Martinus M van Veen, Tessa E Bruins, Madina Artan, Tanja Mooibroek-Leeuwerke, Carien H G Beurskens, Paul M N Werker, Pieter U Dijkstra
In: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2020) 18:256
| Published on: | 27 August 2020 |
ONLINE Research Data Management Awareness workshop, designed by a researcher for researchers.
| Published on: | 17 August 2020 |
The University of Groningen Library (UB) and the Open Science Community Groningen (OSCG) launch an annual Open Research Award to celebrate open research practices.
| Published on: | 23 June 2020 |
The Open Science Newletter June 2020 is out.
| Published on: | 05 June 2020 |
As a trial, the library will no longer pass on costs to students for requesting publications abroad until at least 1 September.
| Published on: | 26 May 2020 |
Pubmed has been renewed, the old Pubmed is no longer available.
| Published on: | 19 May 2020 |
First national Open Science partnership between Dutch research institutions and Elsevier
| Published on: | 02 April 2020 |
From now on, the CMB offers the workshops as a webinar.
| Published on: | 31 March 2020 |
The part of the Central Medical Library which is located in the Central Medical Complex (Y4), is now undergoing rapid renovation.
| Published on: | 20 March 2020 |
Overview scientific resources on COVID-19
| Published on: | 18 March 2020 |
Trial database: GIDEON
| Published on: | 10 March 2020 |
No PDF available: How do I get the article?
| Published on: | 30 January 2020 |
Expansion journals Oxford University Press
| Published on: | 29 January 2020 |
Survey about the new CMB Silent Study Areas
| Published on: | 21 January 2020 |
The CMB Christmas Book Fair raised € 1,066.50
| Published on: | 20 January 2020 |
The third floor of the Central Medical Library (CMB) has been closed. If everything goes according to plan the new quiet study rooms will open on 20 January
| Published on: | 20 December 2019 |
Framework agreement with Elsevier
| Published on: | 09 December 2019 |
Springer Nature open access deal reached annual quota
| Published on: | 03 November 2019 |
Externen kunnen nu aanvragen indienen bij de CMB via een nieuwe website: VraagArtikelAan.nl
| Published on: | 30 October 2019 |
Ask a question to the library via WhatsApp
| Published on: | 24 September 2019 |
Open Science research practices, symposium on 22 Oct
| Published on: | 10 September 2019 |
'Act on Acceptance' is a new service of the CMB to make it easier for authors to publish their articles Open Access.
| Published on: | 27 August 2019 |
The CMB offers you two new workshops: Endnote en "Are you ready for Open Access Publishing?"
| Published on: | 10 July 2019 |
Call for contributions: Open Science research practices, symposium on 22 Oct
| Published on: | 10 July 2019 |
As of September 1, 2019, UMCG-staff can no longer log in with their Proxy-account.
| Published on: | 16 May 2019 |
If you have questions about Open Access publishing you can make an appointment with Peter Braun, Open Access Officer at the Central Medical Library.
| Published on: | 23 April 2019 |
Cochrane Interactive Learning (CIL) is an online educational tool for performing systematic reviews.
| Published on: | 11 March 2019 |
New Open access flyer
| Published on: | 01 March 2019 |
Information meeting "How to get the PDF: All options to find the fulltext of scientific articles!
| Published on: | 12 February 2019 |
Plan S is an initiative to accelerate the transition to 100% open-access publication from 2020 onwards.
| Published on: | 21 January 2019 |
To request articles or books from another library will become much simpler from 28 January.
| Published on: | 12 December 2018 |
Springer Nature contract: limit 2018 Open Access articles without APC reached
| Published on: | 19 September 2018 |
Guest lecture Nicol Keith: Open research and societal impact
| Published on: | 10 September 2018 |
Till 9 October, the University has a trial license to the database AMBOSS, an interactive education tool in the field of medicine.
| Published on: | 31 July 2018 |
How to login for access to the online library collection
| Published on: | 24 May 2018 |
Have your say about the Library and join the online survey
| Published on: | 02 March 2018 |
On Mondag March 5th the RefWorks plugin in the UMCG network will be updated to version 4.5.01.
| Published on: | 20 February 2018 |
The Research Office wants to support (Young) Principal Investigators with entering their research data in PURE
| Published on: | 08 February 2018 |
Five years PeerJ: free open access publishing all month long
| Published on: | 18 December 2017 |
Datasets visible via the UG research portal
| Published on: | 09 November 2017 |
New medical search engine: ClinicalKey
| Published on: | 31 October 2017 |
Starting today, the Word plug-in for Refworks is offered in a different way on the UMCG network.
| Published on: | 31 October 2017 |
Available now: 'SAGE Libertas Academia Journals' (Open Access Peer Reviewed Medical Journals).
| Published on: | 19 October 2017 |
UptoDate: launch specialty Anesthesiology
| Published on: | 05 October 2017 |
Information meeting about Open Access, PURE and Altmetric by the Central Medical Library (CMB) on November 13th in the Red Room (Rode Zaal)
| Published on: | 21 September 2017 |
Golden tips for Publishing Open Access
| Published on: | 12 September 2017 |
Available now at the University and the UMCG: Cochrane's Review Manager.
| Published on: | 26 June 2017 |
Journal Impact Factors 2016 available.
| Published on: | 23 May 2017 |
Golden tips for publishing Open Access
| Published on: | 02 May 2017 |
Access Oxford University Press (OUP) journals has been reinstalled
| Published on: | 17 April 2017 |
Stay up to date on the latest medical research and topic reviews with the journal app 'Read'
| Published on: | 03 March 2017 |
Doctoral students can scan their manuscript on plagiarism via their promoters and supervisors. Other UMCG staff can contact the Central Medical Library for a scan and students can consult their teachers.
| Published on: | 30 January 2017 |
No author's fee for publishing in LWW's hybrid journals
| Published on: | 21 December 2016 |
The University of Groningen and the UMCG strive to make the scientific output of their researchers accessible through open access, especially though the so-called green road. This is in keeping with the Dutch national policy and the requirements of various research funding organisations, but also with the positive effects green open access has for citation scores and the impact of publications.
| Published on: | 30 November 2016 |
In the Central Medical Library's libguide Open Access you will find information about publishing Open Access.
| Published on: | 02 September 2016 |
From 1 September onwards, the University of Groningen offers access to Elsevier's Scopus, the "largest peer-reviewed database in the world".
| Published on: | 15 July 2016 |
Books will be automatically renewed: for staff up to a maximum of 24 times 4 weeks, for students and others to a maximum of 12 times 4 weeks.
| Published on: | 07 July 2016 |
The new website of the Central Medical Library
| Published on: | 30 May 2016 |
To access the UptoDate app you first need to register at UptoDate.
| Published on: | 26 April 2016 |
| Published on: | 19 April 2016 |
Some people still use the old version of Write-N-Cite, version 3. That is going to disappear. As of May 2, Write-N-Cite 3 will no longer be supported.
| Published on: | 19 January 2016 |
There's a new version of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
| Published on: | 24 November 2015 |
The freely accessile website Meetinstrumenten in de zorg (Measuring instruments in health care) contains information about measuring instruments (in Dutch) that can be used in dialy practice and in research.
| Published on: | 14 October 2015 |
The Altmetric Bookmarklet shows you whether or not there are tw eets or blogposts about your scientific article.