Open Science Blog

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.

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.

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.

Buying a house in the Groningen earthquake region might be challenging. How do socio-demographic characteristics, housing attributes and earthquake circumstances influence the choice of mid-to-later life adults to purchase a house here?

Replication studies help to restore the credibility of empirical research. Merle-Marie Pittelkow and team involved the scientific community to create a list of considerations for selecting a replication target in psychology.

This month's article was written by various co-authors, including corresponding author Luis Valente (FSE). It emphasis that immediate conservation actions are needed on Madagaskar, in order to prevent an extinction wave with deep evolutionary impact.

The UG open access book fund helps UG- and UMCG-affiliated authors to publish their work open access. We talked to Prof. Michiel van der Wolf, editor of the first book that was co-financed by the fund.