Open Science Blog

The pubication of this month is written by Dorien Daling (Faculty of Arts). Her article places the current predicament of scholarly communication in historical perspective by exploring the evolution of the scientific journal in the second half of the twentieth century.

The open access publication in the spotlight for the month December is about new strategies to improve donor relationships and to increase donor retention. First and corresponding author Edlira Shehu cooperates a lot a with organizations outside academia.

This month we highlight an article co-authored by Flávio Eiró (Faculty of Arts), that contributes to street-level bureaucracy (SLB) theory by bringing to the forefront the experiences and perspectives of the Global South.

In the past two years, the UG’s Open Science Programme has contributed to making open science an integral part of the UG’s research and teaching culture.

Author Sven Gins (PhD student at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society) shows how animal trials in premodern Europe shed light on more recent cases about the legal personhood of animals that received global attention.

A recently published series of open science guides help researchers in the Netherlands navigate topics such as pre-prints, open licenses, questionable publication practices (forthcoming) and how to apply open science in practice.

This month we highlight a visual essay written by David Shim (Faculty of Arts), which draws on his experiences working as a food-aid monitor in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Datasets of the GDCC are openly available and some have been downloaded over 100,000 times. We asked Director Prof Robert Inklaar to tell us more about the importance of FAIR data, the GDCC and why he chose to be an Open Science ambassador for his faculty.

Lately, the social media landscape has undergone significant shifts. This has led academic institutions and others to reassess their presence on Twitter. The rise of the so-called Fediverse—a decentralised social network, with Mastodon as the most prominent software—presents a promising alternative.

The University of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities. In this interview, we look back with Cisca Wijmenga on the development of open science at the university during her time as Rector Magnificus.