News from the UB

Celebrating openness: Open Research Award 2025 with the Faculty of Arts

Join the event on 30 March to celebrate the many ways in which academics make their research and teaching more accessible and transparent. This year’s focus will be on community building, bringing together experts from the UG, UMCG and Hanze to discuss how we can collectively shape open science in the North.

The three winners of the Open Research Award 2025 will also present their case studies, including Diana Zhuravleva (Faculty of Arts) and team with the case on 'Learning Russian through films.'

Open access publication in the spotlight with the Faculty of Arts
The open access publication in the spotlight for January 2026 is titled 'The price of automated case law annotation: comparing the cost and performance of GPT-4o and student annotators.’ It is written by Iris Schepers, Michelle Bruijn and Michel Vols (all from Faculty of Law) and Martijn Wieling (Faculty of Arts).

National and international newspapers online

Did you know that you have free access to a wide range of international, national and regional newspapers via Nexis Uni? For example, you can view The New York Times or The Guardian from the 1980s onwards, as well as regional newspapers like Dagblad van het Noorden from 1999 to the present day.
In addition to Nexis Uni, the UG also provides direct access to a number of (older volumes of) newspapers (e.g. Le Monde, Financial Times, New York Times).

400 years of Groningen dissertations

Discover more than 14,000 printed dissertations from the University of Groningen from the period 1614-2013. These are now available via SmartCat. Search by author or chronologically, and find works by historical researchers such as Aletta Jacobs and Antonius Deusing. The new Library Guide ‘Catalogue Dissertationum Universitatis Groninganae (1614-2013)’ will help you with this.

New UGP publication
The book Nait Soez’n: De Groninger Studentenbond in de jaren zeventig - en wat daaraan vooraf ging - (Don’t Whine: The Groningen Student Union in the 1970s - and How It Began -) is now available online and open access at University of Groningen Press (UGP). This history of the Groningen Student Union is also relevant for anyone who is currently working to improve the position of students, combat climate change and promote international solidarity.