News
| 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 |
New reservation tool for study places
| 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: | 03 November 2020 |
Extra study spaces Oosterpoort and Oude Boteringestraat
| 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 |
Trial Adam Matthew: primary sources for teaching and research
| 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 |
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: | 25 June 2020 |
Limited reopening of Special Collections Research room for UG staff and students
| 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: | 04 June 2020 |
NWO supports the publication of academic monographs, edited volumes and book chapters.
| 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 |
Numerous instructions and workshops offered for UG staff are available online.
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
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: | 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 |
Trial Oxford Scholarly Editions online
| 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: | 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
| Published on: | 23 March 2020 |
The University Library now offers access to SciFinder-n: an upgrade to SciFinder, the chemistry and molecular science database.
| Published on: | 19 March 2020 |
Are you a researcher at the University of Groningen and are you interested in making your article on COVID 19 available open access, please contact us at openaccess rug.nl.
| Published on: | 19 March 2020 |
Publishers make coronavirus (COVID-19) content freely available
| Published on: | 19 March 2020 |
Newvolume Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies published
| Published on: | 12 March 2020 |
Symposium Open Access
| Published on: | 11 March 2020 |
On February 27, the request-a-copy service reached a nice milestone: the 1000th request!
| Published on: | 10 March 2020 |
PhD Day at the UB Groningen on 7 May
| Published on: | 10 March 2020 |
Half a year after the foundation of the Academy in Groningen in 1614, a library was also founded. The foundation of this Academy library took place on 28 February 1615.
Over half a year after the anniversary celebrations of the UG, the University Library also celebrated its 405th birthday with several festivities at the UB City Centre, open for our users and for the residents of the city of Groningen and its surroundings.
| Published on: | 05 March 2020 |
New issue Groningen Journal of International Law published
| Published on: | 27 February 2020 |
Trial Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Mathematics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Thermal-Fluids Engineering
| Published on: | 18 February 2020 |
Vrijdag 14 maart 2020 vond in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Binnenstad de feestelijke en drukbezochte openstelling van het Geert Hofstede-archief plaats. De bijeenkomst was tegelijkertijd een herdenking: twee dagen ervoor was de sociaal-psycholoog op 91-jarige leeftijd helaas overleden.
| Published on: | 17 February 2020 |
Our new Open Science Newsletter - February 2019 - is out! With information about the upcoming symposium on open access book publishing, an interview with Dr Ineke Wessel about open science research practices, the new NWO data management protocol, recent open access agreements and more.
| Published on: | 11 February 2020 |
Dutch Universities and Brill reach Transformative Agreement open access
| Published on: | 07 February 2020 |
Meet Margreet Nieborg, publishing consultant for University of Groningen Press
| Published on: | 04 February 2020 |
Groningen. The archives of the world-renowned scientific pioneer, Geert Hofstede, will be opened on the 14th of February at the University of Groningen Library in Groningen, The Netherlands.Hofstede ranks in the top 15 of the most quoted social scientists worldwide. Eleven universities have bestowed him with honorary doctorates, making him one of the most noted alumni of the University of Groningen. In 2011, he received a knighthood in the order of the Dutch Lion, the highest civil honour bestowed by the queen.
| Published on: | 30 January 2020 |
Expansion journals Oxford University Press
| Published on: | 29 January 2020 |
New issue Ancient Narrative published
| Published on: | 29 January 2020 |
New virtual exhibitions: Fraternalis Amor
| Published on: | 28 January 2020 |
PeerJ institutional publishing plan renewed
| Published on: | 28 January 2020 |
New read and publish agreement with Biochemical Society (Portland Press)
| Published on: | 21 January 2020 |
The University of Groningen and IOP Publishing have signed a read and publish agreement. The agreement gives UG students and researchers reading access to the full IOPP journal portfolio and allows UG authors to publish open access in 42 of IOPP’s journals at no extra cost.
| Published on: | 21 January 2020 |
All UG-dissertation from 2019 have been received in digital format. The PhD-regulations require that PhD-students submit the printed and digital versions of their dissertations at least three weeks prior to the promotion date. Most PhD-students adhere to this rule perfectly, but in some cases a lot of reminders are necessary to bring the PhD-student to submit the digital version of his or her dissertation. Recently however, the mission for 2019 was accomplished: all dissertations for 2019 (546 in total) have been received in a digital version!
| Published on: | 21 January 2020 |
Since early January 2020, European Journal of Life Writing (EJLW) has been included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
| Published on: | 16 January 2020 |
The VSNU and Elsevier have reached a new framework agreement. The agreement provides Dutch-affiliated researchers with reading access to Elsevier’s full journal portfolio and allows unlimited open access publication in more than 2,000 Elsevier journals – including fully open access ones. Compared to the previous deal, the number of journals where researchers can publish open access for free has been expanded significantly.
| Published on: | 16 January 2020 |
As of January 2020 the University of Groningen Library became a sponsoring member of two new diamond open access initiatives: SciPost and Punctum Books. The UB is honored to be sponsoring these reputable publishing platforms that are fully dedicated to advancing open access and experimenting with new models for scholarly publishing.
| Published on: | 16 January 2020 |
New VSNU deal with Walter de Gruyter
| Published on: | 14 January 2020 |
'Cultuur². Cultuuronderwijs in het VO' written by UG researcher Barend van Heusden and the co-authors Astrid Rass and Jeroen Tansbiedt is the first popular-scientific book published with the University of Groningen Press (UGP).
| Published on: | 09 January 2020 |
Now you can enjoy seamless, full access to NYTimes.com, INYT.com and NYT mobile apps from any location, on or off campus, just by logging into your NYTimes.com account.
| Published on: | 08 January 2020 |
Trial Adam Matthew: primary sources for teaching and research
| Published on: | 07 January 2020 |
At the end of 2019, Dutch universities decided to permanently continue the pilot "You Share, We Take Care" implementing Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act (Taverne Amendment).
| Published on: | 07 January 2020 |
Currently, SmartCat does not work well within the UG buildings and with users who have KPN as their provider.
| Published on: | 19 December 2019 |
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and information and analytics business Elsevier have reached a framework agreement.
| Published on: | 19 December 2019 |
Dinsdag 17 december hield archeologe Berna van Wijk de boeiende lezing 'Middeleeuws boekbeslag, archeologie vanuit het hart van de UB'.
| Published on: | 11 December 2019 |
The University Library during the holidays 2019/2020