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CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), supported by a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organizations, among which NWO. With NWO joining ORE, this will mean that the platform will be available as a publication channel for researchers affiliated with a Dutch research organisation, regardless of whether they have an NWO grant or not.

Quota-based open access publishing agreements: caps expected in 2025 for LWW, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, and ACS

The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2025 is titled 'Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen’, written by Bart Popken and Ethemcan Turhan (both from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences).

As of April 2025, the UG is a sponsoring member of Peer Community In (PCI). PCI is a scholar-led, non-profit organization offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. PCI is currently supported by 160+ universities and research institutions worldwide. This initiative offers a transparent, inclusive and affordable alternative publication model which is in line with the UG’s open science values and objectives. 

The article in the spotlight for the month of March 2025 is titled 'De-Google-ing' our Students: A User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom, written by Sabrina Sauer, Berber Hagedoorn and Susan Aasman (all from the Faculty of Arts).