News and events

Access to the Financieel Dagblad digital newspaper will no longer be available through the UG/UMCG accounts as of 1 January 2025.

The annual quotas for open access publishing under the Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press agreements with the Universities of The Netherlands will be met in November.

RISe is launching a pilot service to help research managers recruit top talent. Contact us now if you have a vacancy and want to find your ideal candidate based on research analytics data.

Springer Nature open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that from that moment the deal will be suspended and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

The Dutch Research Council NWO supports academic journals that wish to transition from a subscription model to an open access model in which authors do not have to pay publication fees. They can soon apply for a subsidy from a new programme: the Diamond Open Access fund. A total of €500,000 is available in this round.

On Thursday 5 December the University of Groningen Library will come to the Faculty of Science and Engineering! We will join the Mastering your PhD: 1st year event to inform PhD students how we can make PhD life easier for them.

Cadaad Journal: new journal at UGP

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 is expected to be reached in mid-October.

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers, written by Inna Majoor-Kozlinska (UG, FEB), Ulla Hytti and Pekka Stenholm (both University of Turku).

Following the theme of this year's International Open Access Week "Community over commercialization," the University of Groningen Library (UB) is highlighting community-driven publishing alternatives, so-called diamond open access (OA) initiatives. Want to learn more about diamond OA and how we support it? Meet our experts Giulia Trentacosti and Margreet Nieborg.

International Journal of Homiletics included in DOAJ

Extra opening hours UB City Centre and UB Zernike: 12 October - 6 November.

The book Beyond the Map: Descriptions of the non-European World in Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior is now available online and open access at University of Groningen Press (UGP).

The UG Open Science Programme supports the academic community in making the transition to being open. In this interview, Ana Ranitovic, Chief of Open Science and programme manager, shares the key achievements of the first programme phase (2021-2023), and looks ahead to what’s next: How will open science further shape the future of research and education at our university?

The new podcast Open Science Bites by the University of Groningen showcases open practices in a to the point and engaging way.

Trial: AM Research Skills

The new podcast Open Science Bites by the University of Groningen showcases open practices in a to the point and engaging way.

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled The effectiveness and efficacy of driving interventions with ADHD: a Dutch perspective, written by Roy Noordhuis, Anselm Fuermaier and Dick de Waard (all connected to the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences).

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This two-hour self-study course is open to students, teachers, and staff from all disciplines. Enhance your critical understanding of groundbreaking AI technologies like ChatGPT and prepare yourself for the future of artificial intelligence.

In our series “I am what I read,” UG staff reveal the literature that has influenced their professional lives.

Opening hours UB City Centre and UB Zernike in September

Summer opening hours UB 2024

The book is edited by Alain Dekker, Irene IJpma and Martha Martens. In this interview, editor and author Alain Dekker (UG/UMCG) describes his motivation and experience with publishing an open access book.