How to make research software FAIR - an interview with Burcu Beygu (UG DCC / ENTEG)
| Date: | 23 February 2023 |
| Author: | Leon ter Schure |
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.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (February) - 'Another article titled "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" or, the mass production of academic research titles'
| Date: | 20 February 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
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.
UG open access book fund turns one!
| Date: | 14 February 2023 |
| Author: | Giulia Trentacosti |
The UG's open access book fund celebrates its first anniversary this month. Time for a brief retrospect of the past year: how many applications has the fund receive so far? And which books were sponsored?
Starting a diamond open access journal: Insights from Andrea Sangiacomo, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Spinoza Studies
| Date: | 06 February 2023 |
| Author: | Giulia Trentacosti |
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.
Open science practices in different disciplines (6) - An interview with Prof Hanny Elzinga (Dean University College Groningen) and Dr. Naomi de Ruiter (Open Science Ambassador)
| Date: | 27 January 2023 |
| Author: | Vera Heininga & Marjan van Ittersum |
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 sixth edition in this series is dedicated to University College Groningen.
Good practices for FAIR data management (3) - an interview with Konstantin M. Wacker and Juan Armando Torres Munguía on ‘A global dataset of pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks’
| Date: | 27 January 2023 |
| Author: | Leon ter Schure |
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.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (January) - 'Early Detection of violating Mobile Apps: A data-driven predictive model approach'
| Date: | 23 January 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
This months’ article proposes improvements in the vetting processes of deployed apps in mobile app stores. It was written by Fadi Mohsen, Dimka Karastoyanova and George Azzopardi of the Bernoulli Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (December) - 'Blind dates: Exploring uncertainty in the radiocarbon evidence on the emergence of animal husbandry in the Dutch wetlands'
| Date: | 08 December 2022 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
This article was written by various UG researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Science and Engineering. We asked first and corresponding author Merita Dreshaj to tell us more about the publication and specifically about the role of legacy datasets in her field of study.
Good practices for FAIR data management (2) - an interview with Lilian Peters on the COVID-19 EHR cohort dataset
| Date: | 02 December 2022 |
| Author: | Jitka Vavra & Leon ter Schure |
Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We asked Lilian Peters and colleagues to tell us more on how they accomplished this for highly relevant medical health data.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (November) - 'Why mental disorders are brain disorders. And why they are not: ADHD and the challenges of heterogeneity and reification'
| Date: | 22 November 2022 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
In this month’s article, Stephan Schleim (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) argues that - contrary to what the search for biomarkers in psychiatry suggests - mental disorders are brain disorders in the sense of weak, but not strong biologism.