News and events

Extra opening hours for the University Library (UB) during the examination period: 14 March to 8 April 2026. During this period, the UB will only be accessible to students and staff of the University of Groningen. Hanze students will not have access during these periods.

The University Library (UB) and the Medical Library have become supporting members of OpenAlex, a free-to-use, open database that provides access to over 480 million scholarly publications across all disciplines. This step underscores the University of Groningen’s (UG) commitment to open science and aligns with the intentions of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), supported by a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organizations, among which NWO. With NWO joining ORE, this will mean that the platform will be available as a publication channel for researchers affiliated with a Dutch research organisation, regardless of whether they have an NWO grant or not.

University Library opening hours in April and May (Good Friday, Easter, King’s Day, Remembrance Day, Liberation Day, Ascension Day, Whitsun).

UG and UMCG signed deals for two new PLOS journals, Expert Medicine Collection was extended and final phase of contract negotiations with ACS is proving difficult.

How do you search for literature? How do you experience access to full text articles? Take part in our research ‘Access to full text’ and receive a coffee voucher!

Due to the weather conditons, the University Library will remain closed for the entire day on Wednesday 4 February.

Discover more than 14,000 printed dissertations from the University of Groningen from the period 1614-2013. These are now available via SmartCat. Search by author or chronologically, and find works by historical researchers such as Aletta Jacobs and Antonius Deusing. The new Library Guide ‘Catalogue Dissertationum Universitatis Groninganae (1614-2013)’ will help you with this.

3 winnaars van de 2025 Open Research Awards:

• Curing the Curriculum: A Student-Led Open Research & Education Podcast for (medical) students. Ulf Ebeling (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and team

• Learning Russian through films. Diana Zhuravleva (Faculty of Arts) and team

• Open access co-produced book -Queer and in Care: Journeys throughcare being young and LGBTQIA+. Mónica López López (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) and team

Let’s think together: what does good student communication look like without Instagram?

The University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) will cancel their licence for the Web of Science database with effect from 1 January 2027.

New UGP publication: Nait Soez’n: De Groninger Studentenbond in de jaren zeventig – en wat daaraan vooraf ging –