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| Published on: | 16 June 2021 |
Rechtsorde vernieuwd: sla uw attenderingen en dossiers op vóór 1 juli!
| Published on: | 08 June 2021 |
New: The extensive database Online Literature will replace LION (Literature Online)
| Published on: | 04 June 2021 |
Meet Doetsje Brouwer, Pure Support Specialist
| Published on: | 03 June 2021 |
Next to an extensive printed collection, the University of Groningen Library also offers a large selection of e-books and e-journals.
| Published on: | 03 June 2021 |
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: | 31 May 2021 |
In onze nieuwe digitale tentoonstelling laten we de reis van onze Lutherbijbel zien tegen de achtergrond van de verschillende eigenaren die dit boek heeft gehad.
Dit bijzondere exemplaar van Erasmus’ Novum Testamentum uit 1527 heeft in de kantlijn persoonlijke reacties van Maarten Luther en Regnerus Praedinius op de vertaling van Erasmus .
| Published on: | 27 May 2021 |
On Sunday 23 May, Dutch public broadcaster VPRO featured the beautiful radio documentary Het Spoor Terug: De geschiedenis van het vrouwelijk orgasme [The Way Back: The History of the Female Orgasm] by Lotte van Gaalen . In the documentary, UG historian Dr Karen Hollewand , an expert on the history of sexuality in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1800), speaks from the Special Collections research room of the University Library.
| Published on: | 27 May 2021 |
As of 31 May the UB will be open again during evening and weekends
| Published on: | 25 May 2021 |
The University of Groningen Library is a member of Open Book Publishers. On this platform, recently two interesting new titles were added.
| Published on: | 18 May 2021 |
New volume European Journal of Life Writing published
| Published on: | 17 May 2021 |
Third journal of University of Groningen Press included in DOAJ
| Published on: | 17 May 2021 |
New journal in University of Groningen Press: Mistral
| Published on: | 12 May 2021 |
New issue Brill's New Pauly Supplements: The Reception of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment
| Published on: | 29 April 2021 |
More than 100 extra study places available as of 3 May
| Published on: | 19 April 2021 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (April 2021)
| Published on: | 15 April 2021 |
Kanopy is a platform containing streaming videos for education with more than 30,000 documentaries, movies, and educational videos. Subjects are e.g. architecture, film studies, literature, European studies, Latin America studies, etc.
| Published on: | 13 April 2021 |
For the Open Science Blog we interviewed Alma Erenstein , Funding Officer at the Faculty of Law. We discussed what her role as a funding officer consists of and how developments in the field of open science affect the grant application process.
| Published on: | 12 April 2021 |
he UB will be closed on: 5 May (Liberation Day), 13 May (Ascension Day), 24 May (Whitsun), 25 May (maintenance work)
| Published on: | 01 April 2021 |
Opening hours UB Good Friday and Easter
| Published on: | 24 March 2021 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (March 2021)
| Published on: | 19 March 2021 |
In January and February 2021, in the Special Collections room of the UB Groningen, Anna de Bruyn studied part of the incunabula for material aspects that were added to the books over the centuries and that are unique to each copy. This could include handwritten notes, decorations, owners’ inscriptions and bindings.
| Published on: | 18 March 2021 |
New issue Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur published
| Published on: | 17 March 2021 |
British Library 19th Century Collection available in open access
| Published on: | 02 March 2021 |
More study places available for vulnerable students
| Published on: | 23 February 2021 |
All UG dissertations from 2020 - 591 in total - have been received in digital format.
| Published on: | 19 February 2021 |
The UG is going to change the way in which it presents its research output, with the current UG research database to be replaced by a research portal. The new portal will be launched on 19 February.
| Published on: | 18 February 2021 |
In 2020, Mr G.A. Biezeveld and Mrs E. Biezeveld-Dikshoorn donated their beautiful collection of 718 Dutch historical prints created by over 200 artists to the University Library Groningen (UB). The inventory of these prints was recently completed and the collection is now accessible to researchers, lecturers, students and other interested parties. The prints collection, which has been named Biezeveld - Van den Steenhoven, can be consulted at the UB Department of Special Collections.
| Published on: | 17 February 2021 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight February 2021
| Published on: | 16 February 2021 |
Request-a-copy enables users of the UG research database to request publications that are not yet full text available (because of an embargo or restriction). In 2020 a total of 1523 request-a-copy requests were received, an average of 127 per month ! In 71% of these cases the authors agreed to share the full text.
| Published on: | 16 February 2021 |
On our blog Gauronica, Annelies Noordhof-Hoorn tells about het exciting foray into the sixteen boxes that appeared to sit in the Special Collections vault.
| Published on: | 14 February 2021 |
Due to the ‘code red’ weather alarm issued by KNMI, the University of Groningen Library (UB) will be closed on Monday 15 February.
| Published on: | 11 February 2021 |
Opening hours Selfservice extented as of 15 February
| Published on: | 09 February 2021 |
New in our collection: Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collection
| Published on: | 01 February 2021 |
Read & Publish agreement Company of Biologists including journals Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology and free and uncapped publishing of Gold Open Access research articles for all corresponding authors under CC-BY licence terms, with authors retaining copyright
| Published on: | 28 January 2021 |
New read and publish agreement with Biochemical Society (Portland Press)
| Published on: | 28 January 2021 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (November 2020)
| Published on: | 26 January 2021 |
Starting January 2021, the university library has taken a licence on the Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Psychology .
| Published on: | 25 January 2021 |
Groningen Digital Competence Centre receives NWO start-up grant
| Published on: | 20 January 2021 |
Reminder: Access to New York Times articles, time to renew your personal account.
| Published on: | 19 January 2021 |
New collections in Adam Matthew: Children's Literature and Culture, Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain, Early Modern England, Nineteenth Century Literary Society, Sex and Sexuality, Mass Observation Project: 1980s, Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia:1963-1966, Food and Drink in History, East India Company: India Office Record, Medical Services and Warfare
| Published on: | 14 January 2021 |
RUG-docenten Frank Harbers en Huub Wijfjes gebruikten boeken, kranten en pamfletten uit onze Bijzondere Collecties voor hun online collegereeks Media History. Het leverde twee interessante filmpjes op, waarover de studenten erg enthousiast waren.
| Published on: | 14 January 2021 |
Agreement UG with Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
| Published on: | 15 December 2020 |
Study rooms UB closed due to new covid measures
| Published on: | 15 December 2020 |
New journal in University of Groningen Press: Krisis, open access journal for contemporary philosophy
| Published on: | 14 December 2020 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (December 2020)
| Published on: | 08 December 2020 |
Opening hours B during the holidays. Pleae note: last week of the year we're closed
| Published on: | 03 December 2020 |
The maximum number of free-of-charge open access articles by UG authors published with Oxford University Press in 2020 will soon be reached.
| Published on: | 26 November 2020 |
Friday 20 November, in the Special Collections research room UG Library director Marjolein Nieboer was handed a beautiful gift by Mrs Dini Stokkentreeff of Delden. It concerned three editions of the bible, at one time bound togehter in one volume (a so-called convolute).
| Published on: | 24 November 2020 |
5 December: UB closes at 6 pm because of the 'Sinterklaas' celebration
| Published on: | 19 November 2020 |
Reservations for more flexible study places from 24 November onwards also on 1st and 2nd floor.
| Published on: | 16 November 2020 |
Meet Mira Zhuk, Open Educational Resources Specialist
| Published on: | 10 November 2020 |
If you have connected your ORCID iD to Pure, you can now import your research output from your ORCID page to your Pure profile.
| Published on: | 09 November 2020 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (November 2020)
| Published on: | 04 November 2020 |
Trial BAR: International Archaeological Reports
| Published on: | 02 November 2020 |
Three stunning works from the University of Groningen Library Special Collections are currently on display at exhibitions in Aduard and Groningen.
| Published on: | 29 October 2020 |
Today, Thursday 29 October, the UG celebrates 40 years of cooperation with the Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität in Oldenburg, Germany.
The Special Collections department made a virtual exhibition about 400 (!) years of Groningen and Oldenburg .
| Published on: | 22 October 2020 |
Bijzondere Collecties in het nieuws. Het Dagblad van het Noorden besteedde deze week ruim aandacht aan onze nieuwe expositie Verzamelwoede, een eeuw Nederlandse plaatjesalbums uit eigen collectie (1920-2020).
| Published on: | 21 October 2020 |
Face covering mandatory from today at UG
| Published on: | 20 October 2020 |
On our weblog Gauronica , about things from Groningen, that is to say: objects from the Special Collections in the University of Groningen Library, a new, richly illustrated article was published by UB staff member Wim Braakman .
| Published on: | 19 October 2020 |
Monday 19 October, in the Special Collections research room Huub Wijfjes and Frank Harbers shot a video for their online bachelor lecture Media Studies lecture. Among other subjects, they talked about the Index librorum prohibitorum (list of forbidden books).
| Published on: | 08 October 2020 |
In the University of Groningen Library City Centre, a colourful selection of albums for picture cards is now on show, published in the Netherlands over the last hundred years that have been added to collection of the University Library of Groningen.
- University of Groningen Library City Centre
- Display cabinet at Special Collections, stairwell 3rd floor
- and also in every display cabinet in the stairwell and coffee corners
- Thursday 8 October 2020 through Sunday 31 January 2021
| Published on: | 06 October 2020 |
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (October 2020)
| Published on: | 02 October 2020 |
Call for applications to publish first UG open textbook
| 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: | 08 September 2020 |
University College and UGP team up to provide publishing experience for students
| Published on: | 08 September 2020 |
Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies now online available
| Published on: | 04 September 2020 |
This summer, the UB Groningen reached an important digital milestone: over 33,000 books (33,386) from the collection have been digitized and made available online. Some of these can be consulted via Google Books, and even more via Delpher. The digitization took place across the past three years as part of a collaborative project with the National Library.
| Published on: | 02 September 2020 |
UB launches monthly Open Access Publication in the Spotlight
| Published on: | 01 September 2020 |
Starting 1 September, the UB will also be open in the evening and weekends. Please note: you need a reservation to get access!
| Published on: | 26 August 2020 |
International students publish Groninger Cookbook
| Published on: | 26 August 2020 |
Second journal of University of Groningen Press included in DOAJ
| Published on: | 06 August 2020 |
After a trial period last spring, Oxford Scholarly Edtions Online is now available as a UG license.
| Published on: | 06 August 2020 |
New virtual exhibition: Maps of Meaning
| Published on: | 27 July 2020 |
Meet Tiemen Folkers, author identification (ORCID) specialist
| Published on: | 02 July 2020 |
Monday 6 July, the Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen (DNPP) will partly reopen. Visitors are welcome - by appointment only
| Published on: | 25 June 2020 |
The UB City Centre is reopening in phases. UG students can reserve a study place, Mondays to Fridays, 8.30 am -12.30 pm or 1.30 pm - 5.30 pm.