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Published dataset in Springer Nature's Scientific Data

Good practices for FAIR data management: an interview with Kasper Meijeron ‘The seafloor from a trait perspective. A comprehensive life history dataset of soft sediment macrozoobenthos’

Date:04 March 2024
Author:Alba Soares Capellas
We asked co-author Kasper Meijer to tell us more about his publication in Scientific Data, an open access journal for descriptions of datasets and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data.
Open access publication in the spotlight: February 2024

Open access publication in the spotlight (February) - 'The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks'

Date:26 February 2024
Author:Open Access Team
How do musicians imagine and relate to the networks of “related artists” they are algorithmically sorted into on Spotify? This research question is addressed by authors Robert Prey and Marc Esteve Del Valle, both from the Faculty of Arts.
Article in the spotlight January 2024

Open access publication in the spotlight (January) - "On the ruins of seriality": The scientific journal and the nature of the scientific life

Date:30 January 2024
Author:Open Access Team
The pubication of this month is written by Dorien Daling (Faculty of Arts). Her article places the current predicament of scholarly communication in historical perspective by exploring the evolution of the scientific journal in the second half of the twentieth century.
Article in the spotlight December 2023

Open access publication in the spotlight (December) - 'Improving Blood Donor Retention and Donor Relationships with Past Donation Use Appeals'

Date:15 December 2023
Author:Open Access Team
The open access publication in the spotlight for the month December is about new strategies to improve donor relationships and to increase donor retention. First and corresponding author Edlira Shehu cooperates a lot a with organizations outside academia.
Open access publication in the spotlight: November 2023

Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (November) - 'On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies'

Date:27 November 2023
Author:Open Access Team
This month we highlight an article co-authored by Flávio Eiró (Faculty of Arts), that contributes to street-level bureaucracy (SLB) theory by bringing to the forefront the experiences and perspectives of the Global South.
UG Open Science Programme

The UG opens up - Looking back at the Open Science Programme 2021-2023

Date:20 November 2023
In the past two years, the UG’s Open Science Programme has contributed to making open science an integral part of the UG’s research and teaching culture.
Open access publication in the spotlight: October 2023

Open Access Publication in the Spotlight - 'Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism'

Date:23 October 2023
Author:Open Access Team
Author Sven Gins (PhD student at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society) shows how animal trials in premodern Europe shed light on more recent cases about the legal personhood of animals that received global attention.
Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers

Practical guides on open science for researchers in the Netherlands

Date:26 September 2023
Author:Giulia Trentacosti
A recently published series of open science guides help researchers in the Netherlands navigate topics such as pre-prints, open licenses, questionable publication practices (forthcoming) and how to apply open science in practice.
Open access publication in the spotlight: September 2023

Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (September) - 'Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices'

Date:21 September 2023
Author:Open Access Team
This month we highlight a visual essay written by David Shim (Faculty of Arts), which draws on his experiences working as a food-aid monitor in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Prof Robert Inklaar

Good practices for FAIR data management - an interview with Robert Inklaar (Director GGDC) on achieving impact with open data

Date:21 September 2023
Author:Ana Alves & Alba Soares Capellas
Datasets of the GDCC are openly available and some have been downloaded over 100,000 times. We asked Director Prof Robert Inklaar to tell us more about the importance of FAIR data, the GDCC and why he chose to be an Open Science ambassador for his faculty.