News and events

Article in the spotlight for May 2025
The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2025 is titled 'Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen’, written by Bart Popken and Ethemcan Turhan (both from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences).

The new podcast Open Science Bites by the University of Groningen showcases open practices in a to the point and engaging way.

As of April 2025, the UG is a sponsoring member of Peer Community In (PCI). PCI is a scholar-led, non-profit organization offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. PCI is currently supported by 160+ universities and research institutions worldwide. This initiative offers a transparent, inclusive and affordable alternative publication model which is in line with the UG’s open science values and objectives. 

The University of Groningen Library (UB) turns 410 this year and we’d love for you to be part of the celebration. Celebrate with us on 16 May during our Open Afternoon and share your story about the UB!

The article in the spotlight for the month of March 2025 is titled 'De-Google-ing' our Students: A User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom, written by Sabrina Sauer, Berber Hagedoorn and Susan Aasman (all from the Faculty of Arts). 

Recent political developments in the United States and new US government budget cuts have raised concerns about the continued accessibility of scientific information in databases. There are no concrete indications yet that the findability of articles has been affected. Information specialists at the UB are monitoring the situation closely.

The University of Groningen (UG) and the UMCG participate in a national open access agreement with the publisher PLOS. The agreement applies to seven journals. All publication types are covered under the agreement. The deal has different financial implications for UG and UMCG authors

Opening hours UB in May 2025

The new podcast Open Science Bites by the University of Groningen showcases open practices in a to the point and engaging way.

Opening hours UB Good Friday, Easter, King's Day

Until 7 May, the UB offers access to 3 collections from the British Online Archives on Colonial Law in Africa. These are so-called ‘African Government Gazettes’ from 1808-1966.

The article in the spotlight for the month of February 2025 is titled Picking the juiciest cherries from the blockchain tree: Is the hype still alive?, written by María Lorena Flórez Rojas (Faculty of Law at the University of Groningen) and Philipp Langer (Computer Engineer).

The article in the spotlight for the month of March 2025 is titled Intramolecular feedback regulation of the LRRK2 Roc G domain by a LRRK2 kinase-dependent mechanism, written by Bernd K. Gilsbach, Benjamin Riebenbauer, Giambattista Guaitoli, Christian Johannes Gloeckner (all from German Center for Neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE), Tübingen) and Franz Y. Ho, Xiaojuan Zhang and Arjan Kortholt (all from the Cell Biochemistry department at the Faculty of Science and Engineering). 

Sketch Engine is a tool for language research, which can also be used for text analysis or text mining.

On 18 March 2025, staff members of the UG will strike in protest against the cuts to higher education. Staff members of the UB will also put their work on hold to draw attention to the consequences of the planned cuts. As a result, some library services may be disrupted throughout the day.

Access to Rechtsorde discontinued

Extra opening hours UB City Centre (15 March until 9 April) and UB Zernike (17 March until 6 April) due to the exam period.

As of 2025, the UG became a subscribing member of White Horse Press (WHP), an independent, family-run academic publisher specialising in environmental humanities and social sciences. The membership package includes five journals.

The fifth edition of the National Open Science Festival will take place on 24 October 2025 at the University of Groningen.

The START Handbook: How can I help my first-year students engage, persist and succeed? is now available as an open-access webbook through University of Groningen Press (UGP).

The University Library is discarding several parts of its physical collection to make room for, among other things, the placement of new literature and the creation of innovative teaching spaces. After careful selection of publications, alternative uses are considered that contribute to the preservation of scientific resources and accessibility of knowledge.

The UG has renewed several existing open access agreements. Through these agreements UG researchers get reading access to scientific journals, as well as the right to publish open access at no extra cost.

Want to learn how you can use primary sources in your humanities research? Take a look at AM Research Skill Foundations.

In our series “I am what I read,” UG staff reveal the literature that has influenced their professional lives.

All UG dissertations from 2024 have been received in digital format. The PhD regulations require that PhD students submit the print and digital versions of their dissertations at least three weeks prior to the promotion date.