Open Science Blog

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.

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.

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.