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open access publication in the spotlight: June 2024

Open access publication in the spotlight - 'A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It'

Date:21 June 2024
Author:Open Access Team
What is the source of commonalities among languages in the world? In this article, Alexander Martin (Faculty of Arts) and co-authors explore this question by making a comparison between word-order preference of speakers of Kîîtharaka and English.
Open access publication in the spotlight: May 2024

Open access publication in the spotlight for the month (May) - 'Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells'

Date:31 May 2024
Author:Open Access Team
Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world.
The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies

Publishing an open access book series - an interview with Annie van den Oever and Maryse Elliott about the Key Debates book series by AUP 

Date:29 May 2024
Author:Giulia Trentacosti
How can you publish a book - and even a whole series - open access? What are challenges and what support is available? We talked with the two editors of an academic book series in film studies.
Open access publication in the spotlight: April 2024

Open access publication in the spotlight (April) - 'Sharing with minimal regulation? Evidence from neighborhood book exchange'

Date:24 April 2024
Author:Open Access Team
You probably have seen them around the city: little free libraries. Authors Anouk Schippers and Adriaan Soetevent (Faculty of Economics and Business) did research on them and found that there is surprisingly limited free riding among its users.
Open access publication in the spotlight: March 2024

Open access publication in the spotlight (March) - 'Gender differences in Dutch research funding over time: A statistical investigation of the innovation scheme 2012–2021'

Date:21 March 2024
Author:Open Access Team
This month's article studies whether or not the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has been successful in removing gender differences from their Talent Programme funding scheme. We asked corresponding author Casper Albers (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) to tell us more.
Published dataset in Springer Nature's Scientific Data

Good practices for FAIR data management - an interview with Kasper Meijer on ‘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.