Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (May 2025)

Each month, the open access team of the University of Groningen Library (UB) puts a recent open access article by UG authors in the spotlight. This publication is highlighted via social media and the library’s newsletter and website.

Article in the spotlight for May 2025
The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2025 is titled 'Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen’, written by Bart Popken and Ethemcan Turhan (both from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences).

We asked the authors a few questions about the article.

Citation:
Popken, B., & Turhan, E. (2025). Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen. City, 29(1–2), 150–178. https://doi.org/(...)3604813.2025.2469018

About Open Access in the Spotlight
The initiative wishes to emphasize the relevance of open access publishing for the visibility of research and to acknowledge open science best practices at the same time. Authors are given the opportunity to speak about their motives to publish open access and their experience with it. Publications from all UG faculties will be included.