Open Science Blog

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?

Having appropriate infrastructure in place is crucial for practicing open science. We asked researcher and data steward Pascal de Boer to tell us more about a FAIR and open access data repository he co-created.

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 recent book publication from the University of Groningen Press (UGP) explores how medium-sized European cities such as Groningen can best manage the challenges of internationalisation.

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 University of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities. But what exactly is the status of open science at the different UG Faculties? The seventh edition in this series is dedicated to the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Part of open science is to not only make your research data, but also software and code available to others in a FAIR way. But how to do this? Software specialist Burcu Beygu shares some practical advice.

Author Jaap Nieuwenhuis (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) shares his thoughts on selecting a title for academic publications and his perspective on open access and open science in general.

JSS is published by the University of Groningen Press (UGP). We asked editor-in-chief Dr Andrea Sangiacomo to tell us more about the experience of setting up a diamond open access journal from scratch.

Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. One of the ways to do this is by publishing your dataset in a dedicated journal.