Open Science Blog

'Which licence should I choose?’ is one of the most frequently asked questions in our open access support inbox. In this blog post, we take you through the fundamentals of Creative Commons licences and provide some suggestions to select the appropriate licence for your work.

The article for this month is titled “Automated device for continuous stirring while sampling in liquid chromatography systems.” It was written by various co-authors from the Center for Systems Chemistry, which is part of the Stratingh Institute (Faculty of Science and Engineering).

In January, we place the spotlight on the article “‘Red is the colour of the heart’: making young children’s multilingualism visible through language portraits”. It is written by Camila Tabaro Soares and Joana Duarte, who are both part of the Multilingualism & Minorities programme (Faculty of Arts), and by Mirjam Günther-van der Meij (NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences).

Each month, the library’s open access team puts an Open Access publication by a UG author in the spotlight. The article of November 2020 is "Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes" which was co-authored by various UG-researchers.

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.

Each month, the library’s open access team puts an Open Access publication by a UG author in the spotlight. The article of November 2020 is "Facilitating Recovery of Daily Functioning in People With a Severe Mental Illness..." which was co-authored by various UG- and UMCG-researchers.

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.