Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (January) - 'Early Detection of violating Mobile Apps: A data-driven predictive model approach'
Date: | 23 January 2023 |
Author: | Open Access Team |
This months’ article proposes improvements in the vetting processes of deployed apps in mobile app stores. It was written by Fadi Mohsen, Dimka Karastoyanova and George Azzopardi of the Bernoulli Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (December) - 'Blind dates: Exploring uncertainty in the radiocarbon evidence on the emergence of animal husbandry in the Dutch wetlands'
Date: | 08 December 2022 |
Author: | Open Access Team |
This article was written by various UG researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Science and Engineering. We asked first and corresponding author Merita Dreshaj to tell us more about the publication and specifically about the role of legacy datasets in her field of study.
Good practices for FAIR data management (2) - an interview with Lilian Peters on the COVID-19 EHR cohort dataset
Date: | 02 December 2022 |
Author: | Jitka Vavra & Leon ter Schure |
Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We asked Lilian Peters and colleagues to tell us more on how they accomplished this for highly relevant medical health data.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (November) - 'Why mental disorders are brain disorders. And why they are not: ADHD and the challenges of heterogeneity and reification'
Date: | 22 November 2022 |
Author: | Open Access Team |
In this month’s article, Stephan Schleim (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) argues that - contrary to what the search for biomarkers in psychiatry suggests - mental disorders are brain disorders in the sense of weak, but not strong biologism.
Open science practices in different disciplines (5) - An interview with Prof Marian Joëls and Prof Marie-José van Tol, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Date: | 03 November 2022 |
Author: | Vera Heininga & Marjan van Ittersum |
The University of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities of the next five years. But what exactly is the status of open science at the different UG Faculties? The fifth edition in this series is dedicated to the Faculty of Medical Sciences.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (October) - '#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens'
Date: | 21 October 2022 |
Author: | Open Access Team |
This month we highlight an article by Leonieke Bolderman (Faculty of Spatial Sciences). She analyzes how murals can become symbols of both heritage and divisive gentrification in the context of the contemporary media city.
An interview with Taichi Ochi, newly appointed community manager of the Open Science Community Groningen
Date: | 07 October 2022 |
Author: | Marjan van Ittersum |
The OSCG is a bottom-up initiative by a group of open science enthusiasts at the UG and UMCG. It aims to make research more open, reproducible and responsible. We talked to its newly appointed community manager.
First book co-financed by the UG’s OA Book Fund published
Date: | 28 September 2022 |
Author: | Giulia Trentacosti |
The UG open access book fund helps UG- and UMCG-affiliated authors to publish their work open access. We talked to Prof. Michiel van der Wolf, editor of the first book that was co-financed by the fund.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (September) - 'The lonely heroine: portrayal of women scientists in films'
Date: | 19 September 2022 |
Author: | Open Access Team |
This month's article in the spotlight examines how women scientists were portrayed in films in the context of fourth-wave feminism. It was written by various authors from the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Good practices for FAIR data management (1) - an interview with Clara Egger on the EXCEPTIUS dataset
Date: | 19 September 2022 |
Author: | Leon ter Schure |
Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We asked Dr Clara Egger to tell us more about how she accomplished this for a dataset she and her team recently published.