Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (December 2022)

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 December 2022
The article in the spotlight for the month of December 2022 is titled Blind dates: Exploring uncertainty in the radiocarbon evidence on the emergence of animal husbandry in the Dutch wetlands, written by Merita Dreshaj, Hans Peeters, Daan Raemaekers (all from the Faculty of Arts) and Michael Dee (Faculty of Science and Engineering).

This article was written by various UG researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Science and Engineering. We asked first and corresponding author Merita Dreshaj to tell us more about the publication and specifically about the role of legacy datasets in her field of study.

Citation
Dreshaj, M., Dee, M. W., Peeters, H., & Raemaekers, D. (2022). Blind dates: Exploring uncertainty in the radiocarbon evidence on the emergence of animal husbandry in the Dutch wetlands. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45, [103589]. https://doi.org/(...)j.jasrep.2022.103589

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.