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This two-hour self-study course is open to students, teachers, and staff from all disciplines. Enhance your critical understanding of groundbreaking AI technologies like ChatGPT and prepare yourself for the future of artificial intelligence.

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

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.

Springer Nature open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 is expected to be reached in mid-October. 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.

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

Opening hours UB City Centre and UB Zernike in September

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 is expected to be reached in mid-September.

The book is edited by Alain Dekker, Irene IJpma and Martha Martens. In this interview, editor and author Alain Dekker (UG/UMCG) describes his motivation and experience with publishing an open access book.

Summer opening hours UB 2024

Due to financial and technical reasons, the current RefWorks contract will not be renewed. Do you use RefWorks? Then switch to our other reference manager, EndNote.

How do you conduct a systematic review? What requirements must a systematic review meet? What types of reviews are there? The University of Groningen Library (UB) offers support in searching for literature for a systematic review. Meet Ina Vrolijk, academic information specialist at the UB.

The article in the spotlight for the month of June 2024 is titled A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It, written by Alexander Martin (assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts), David Adger (Queen Mary University of London, Klaus Abels (University College London), Patrick Kanampiu and Jennifer Culbertson (both from the University of Edinburgh).

Making the UG impact on Sustainable Development Goals visible in the research portal

Higher VAT on books also affects access to science

The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2024 is titled Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells, written by Hanneke Hoekstra (lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Arts).

Extra opening hours UB City Centre (1-26 June) and UB Zernike (7-27 June) due to the exam period. The UB CIty Centre is only accessible for students and staff of the University of Groningen (and other holders of a University card). Reserving a study spot is required. Hanze students will have no access to the library during these periods.

Trial Gale: Power to the people

UB closed 18 May

Opening hours UB April and May

How can authors recognise and avoid these journals? What can authors do if they have published with a questionable or predatory publisher? Open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have written a guide that provides insight and practical advice for authors.

Trial Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

In a significant stride toward advancing responsible research assessment and open science, the University of Groningen has officially signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

A trial is now available on Routledge Resources Online - Medieval Studies.

"Migration: A Philosophical Toolkit" (ed. Marc Pauly) is the first open textbook published with University of Groningen Press that was mostly created by students.

Books UGP included in AEUP catalogue

The Trump Carnival : Populism, Transgression and the Far Right was published open access thanks to the financial support of the Open Access Book Fund of the University of Groningen.

Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies included in DOAJ

On Monday 25 March, the University of Groningen Library will come to University College Groningen!

Meet Jette Veenstra, collection specialist for the humanities (faculties of Philosophy, Arts and Religion, Culture and Society).

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New collections in Adam Matthew Explorer:

• 1980s Culture and Society
• Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
• British Newsreels, 1991-1930
• Broadcasting America : the Rise of Mass Media and Communications
• Royal Shakespeare Company archives (1889-2013)

Friday 12 February the 50th oration booklet was handed to Prof. Bert Groenewoudt (Faculty of Arts)

The UG has signed a new Read & Publish agreement with the European Respiratory Journal. In addition, several existing agreements have been renewed. Through these agreements UG researchers get reading access to scientific journals, as well as the right to publish open access at no extra cost.

As of May 2024, the bibliographic management programme Mendeley will no longer be available via UWP.

UG researchers are invited to showcase their research images in the SHA_RE light installation at the UB City Centre.

New UGP publication: De Grote Methodiekengids

New UGP publication: Strange Bedfellows

In the UB, it is now possible to use the lactation room, for staff/students as well as other visitors of the UB.

All UG-dissertations from 2023 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.

From 6 January through 1 February the University Library City Centre is only accessible for students and staff of the University of Groningen (and other holders of a University card). Hanze students will have no access to the library during these periods.

Open Access Publication in the Spotlight December 2023

New UGP publication: Taking back control of the energy sector?

Meta Science: Towards a Science of Meaning and Complex Solutions is now available online and open access at UGP.

Join the event of 23 November

As of 9 November, you no longer need to reserve a study place outside the UG-only periods at the UB City Centre and the UB Zernike. Studio reservations at both locations remain required.

3 winnaars van de 2023 Open Research Awards:

• Anna Langener en team , Organizing a Hackathon to Develop a (Pre)registration Template for Studies Using Passive Smartphone Measures
• Anastasios Sarampalis , Open teaching practices foster an understanding of Open Research practices
• Christopher May , Interdisciplinary Explorations of Neuroscience: A new open textbook reviewed and edited using open pedagogy

As an employee or student at the UG, you now have access to the MideastWire news service.

The UB Groningen quits Twitter/X. Follow us on Mastodon for daily open science-related updates and news on our services and support for the academic community!

Following the theme of this year's International Open Access Week "Community over commercialization," the University of Groningen Library (UB) is highlighting community-driven publishing alternatives, so-called diamond open access (OA) initiatives. Want to learn more about diamond OA and how we support it? Meet our experts Giulia Trentacosti and Margreet Nieborg.

With the so-called Spotlight project, the University of Groningen (UG) has digitized more than 100,000 objects from its heritage collection. These objects, including historical photographs, books, maps and objects from the University Museum's depot, can now be viewed and studied online.

Large commercial publishing houses charge high amounts for open access publication of scientific articles. Dissatisfied with this, more and more researchers want to keep control of the publication process themselves. They are opting for community-driven initiatives. At the UG, the University of Groningen Press (UPG) can play an important role in this, as explained by five researchers.

With the new release, the previous Library app was renamed to UB app.

Information literacy training is an important ingredient in helping to build the critical thinking skills that students will need in their future careers. Meet Lilian Tabois and find out how the University of Groningen Library (UB) supports students and researchers in developing their information literacy skills.