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 January 2021
‘Red is the colour of the heart’: making young children’s multilingualism visible through language portraits, written by Camila Tabaro Soares, Joana Duarte (both from the Multilingualism & Minorities programme at the Faculty of Arts) and Mirjam Günther-van der Meij (NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences).

In our Open Science Blog, the authors reflect on their motivation to publish open access, their choice to pick a specific journal and their experiences with open access and open science in general.

Citation
Soares, C. T., Duarte, J., & Günther-van der Meij, M. (2020). “Red is the colour of the heart”: making young children’s multilingualism visible through language portraits. Language and Education, 1–20. doi:10.1080/09500782.2020.1833911

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.