Open Science Blog

During the online event Celebrating Openness, keynote speakers and UG researchers explored the role of open science in the humanities. The three winners of the Open Research Award 2021 gave lightening talks and a panel discussion addressed how the university should recognize and reward open science practices.

On the occasion of Open Access Week 2020, the University of Groningen Library (UB) and the Open Science Community Groningen (OSCG) organized the online event Celebrating Openness. Keynote speakers and UG researchers explored the benefits and challenges of opening up research. A panel discussion was dedicated to the modified lottery system as a way to assign research funding or prizes.

Everyone knows what attention is, said William James 150 years ago. But nowadays psychologists are still struggling to reliably assess attention, especially impairments of attention. The experience of attention is very personal and what is regarded normal differs strongly between people. Therefore, a large norm group is necessary to pinpoint impairments of attention.

Is it possible to publish all peer-reviewed articles of our research group in Open Access journals? Two years ago, this journey started, and we started to submit our manuscripts exclusively to journals that are cover by the VNSU Open Access agreements. As a result, we were able to publish more than 95% of our manuscripts Open Access in this time period.

A case study about preregistration of a quantitative study using secondary data in the social sciences.

Hand eczema is a common skin disease with a one-year prevalence of up to 10% and a long-lasting negative impact on quality of life. Both endogenous and exogenous factors play a role in the pathogenesis of hand eczema.

In the case study presented here we use a collaborative method to improve data analysis and research outcomes by engaging and involving children of the public. Several activities made the outputs of our research more (and freely) accessible for both academics (by open access publishing) and the public (through videos, an interview and poster presentation on the international iCAN conference by young people).

We believe this ‘main versus alternatives analysis’ structure makes the results easier to interpret for readers because it provides a baseline, while still providing as much information we can to improve future analyses using similar data.