Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (March 2023)

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 March 2023
The article in the spotlight for the month of March 2023 is titled The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar, written by a research team led by Luis Valente (assistant professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering and senior researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center).

On our Open Science Blog, Luis Valente talks about how he made sure the publication was visible on social media and the news media, and about his experiences with open access publishing and open science in general.

Citation
Michielsen, N.M., Goodman, S.M., Soarimalala, V. et al. The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar. Nat Commun 14, 14 (2023). https://doi.org/(...)8/s41467-022-35215-3

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.