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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.

Article in the spotlight for December 2024
The article in the spotlight for the month of December 2024 is titled Revolutionary discourses from the past: a digital hermeneutical analysis of widely read academic publications on the social impact and significance of the internet, written by Nathalie Fridzema, Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg and Rik Smit (all from the Faculty of Arts).

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.

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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.

New UGP publication: Spinoza’s Yoga

Problems with the reservation system for study places and workshops at the UB City Centre.

The University of Groningen launches the second funding cycle of the open access book fund. UG- or UMCG-affiliated authors can apply for funding the publication of their monograph or edited volume. Please note the key changes from the previous funding cycle.

The UB will be open as much as possible during the holiday period around Christmas and New Year. Read more about the opening hours uin this period (December 2024 - January 2025)

The Dutch Research Council NWO supports academic journals that wish to transition from a subscription model to an open access model in which authors do not have to pay publication fees. They can soon apply for a subsidy from a new programme: the Diamond Open Access fund. A total of €500,000 is available in this round.

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers, written by Inna Majoor-Kozlinska (UG, FEB), Ulla Hytti and Pekka Stenholm (both University of Turku).

Access to the Financieel Dagblad digital newspaper will no longer be available through the UG/UMCG accounts as of 1 January 2025.

Springer Nature open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that from that moment the deal will be suspended and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

As of today, the University Library offers access to Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online.

The annual quotas for open access publishing under the Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press agreements with the Universities of The Netherlands will be met in November.

As of 1 January 2025, the Library Support Desk in the UB City Centre will have adjusted opening hours:

• Weekdays: open from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. 
• Weekends: closed 

The UB City Centre will remain open for visitors as usual, with the Facility Desk available to assist with general questions about the building.

On Thursday 5 December the University of Groningen Library will come to the Faculty of Science and Engineering! We will join the Mastering your PhD: 1st year event to inform PhD students how we can make PhD life easier for them.

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Cadaad Journal: new journal at UGP