Open Science Blog

The Network promotes reproducibility and transparency in all scholarly disciplines a.o. through training activities and by sharing best practices and supporting meta-scientific research.

Researchers who join ‘Collective Action in Science Diamond’ promise to publish (at least) one diamond open access article in the coming five years. 

What is the source of commonalities among languages in the world? In this article, Alexander Martin (Faculty of Arts) and co-authors explore this question by making a comparison between word-order preference of speakers of Kîîtharaka and English.

Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world.

How can you publish a book - and even a whole series - open access? What are challenges and what support is available? We talked with the two editors of an academic book series in film studies.

You probably have seen them around the city: little free libraries. Authors Anouk Schippers and Adriaan Soetevent (Faculty of Economics and Business) did research on them and found that there is surprisingly limited free riding among its users.

This month's article studies whether or not the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has been successful in removing gender differences from their Talent Programme funding scheme. We asked corresponding author Casper Albers (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) to tell us more.

We asked co-author Kasper Meijer to tell us more about his publication in Scientific Data, an open access journal for descriptions of datasets and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data.

How do musicians imagine and relate to the networks of “related artists” they are algorithmically sorted into on Spotify? This research question is addressed by authors Robert Prey and Marc Esteve Del Valle, both from the Faculty of Arts.

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.