News
| 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 |
The annual Open Research Award organized by the University of Groningen Library and the Open Science Community Groningen celebrates the many ways in which academics make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible. Call for submission open until 1 September.
| 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: | 25 January 2021 |
NWO supports the publication of academic monographs, edited volumes and book chapters.
| 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: | 05 October 2020 |
RUG only in UB due tot exam period
| 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: | 17 August 2020 |
The University of Groningen Library (UB) and the Open Science Community Groningen (OSCG) launch an annual Open Research Award to celebrate open research practices.
| 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 |
Limited reopening of Special Collections Research room for UG staff and students
| 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.
| Published on: | 24 June 2020 |
As of Monday 29 June, the accessibility of the printers at UB City Centre now continues into the afternoon. Due to the necessary corona measures, a printer must be reserved in advance.
| Published on: | 11 June 2020 |
The overall share of UG/UMCG open access publications rose from 37% in 2016 to 64% in 2019.
| Published on: | 11 June 2020 |
Of two journals published by University of Groningen Press, (part of) volume 2019 is now digitally available. It concerns volume 2019 of Subseciva Groningana and issue 1 of volume 2019 of Theologia Reformata .
| Published on: | 27 May 2020 |
In these corona times, the UG is still closed for the most part but, as a first step, its laboratories have reopened. The Special Collections research room at the UB belongs to this category too. Is that strange? Not really, because the Special Collections department is the laboratory where you can research humanity.
| Published on: | 22 May 2020 |
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have formed a novel partnership that includes publishing and reading services as well as the joint development of new open science services for disseminating and evaluating knowledge.
| Published on: | 22 May 2020 |
Numerous instructions and workshops offered for UG staff are available online.
| Published on: | 18 May 2020 |
During these times of crisis, most of us have become shut-ins. But history shows that we are far from the only ones to stay indoors for an extended period of time.
UB staff member Wim Braakman wrote an article for our weblog Gauronica about recluses through the centuries, from Simeon the Stylite through friar Hugo , who has been living as a recluse in Warfhuizen for the last 18 years.
| Published on: | 18 May 2020 |
Member of the board Hans Biemans visited the University of Groningen Library staff members still working behind the scenes in the UB City Centre. They see to it that returned books are taken in safely, and requested books are positioned in the Self service A section to be picked up by our users. Also, the research room of the Special Collections department is open again to UG staff and students.
| Published on: | 18 May 2020 |
UGP and the University Press of University of the Frontier (Chili) co-publish new open access book series “Global Cultures and Politics”
| Published on: | 01 May 2020 |
The University Library has identified the Faculties' needs and priorities regarding Pure and proposed the 2020 Research Output program as a result of this process. The Research Output 2020 (RO2020) program started with the appointment of project manager Ben Eefting on 1 September 2019. The steering group includes representatives from the faculties of the RUG, UMCG and UB.
| Published on: | 29 April 2020 |
The vault of the Special Collections department of the University of Groningen Library holds more than 70 posters with propaganda slogans from the Nazi period. These often richly illustrated posters were distributed in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation under the motto Slogan of the workling week.
| Published on: | 29 April 2020 |
Trial Oxford Scholarly Editions online
| Published on: | 28 April 2020 |
Special issue of Journal of Virtual Exchange published
| Published on: | 22 April 2020 |
Trial Oxford Politics Trove & Law Trove
| Published on: | 21 April 2020 |
Save time and increase your visibility with an ORCID iD
| Published on: | 09 April 2020 |
Several publishers and providers have temporarily extended digital access to their material in these special circumstances, following a request by ICOLC, the international federation of library consortiums.
| Published on: | 08 April 2020 |
International Law, International Relations en Political Science added to Oxford Bibliographies online
| Published on: | 07 April 2020 |
UGP publishes first academic open access book. First English translation of Achenwall's Prolegomena iuris naturalis published open access. Editor: Pauline Kleingeld, translator: Corinna Vermeulen