Open Science Blog

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.

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.

This month we highlight an article by Leonieke Bolderman (Faculty of Spatial Sciences). She analyzes how murals can become symbols of both heritage and divisive gentrification in the context of the contemporary media city.

The OSCG is a bottom-up initiative by a group of open science enthusiasts at the UG and UMCG. It aims to make research more open, reproducible and responsible. We talked to its newly appointed community manager.

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.

Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We asked Dr Clara Egger to tell us more about how she accomplished this for a dataset she and her team recently published.

The University of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities of the next five years. But what exactly is the status of open science at the different UG Faculties? The fourth edition in this series is dedicated to the Faculty of Law.

Chris May redesigned his first-year Biopsychology course using open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy. Students of this course are the co-creators of their own educational material, which is shared openly with the world.

Marlon de Jong advises UG researchers on how to practice open science while protecting the privacy of research participants. We asked her to tell us more about her role and the most important challenges of dealing with privacy-sensitive research data.

We interviewed editor Mónica López López (Faculty of BSS) about her recent book “Working with LGBTQIA+ youth in the child welfare system” and why she decided to publish this open access with the University of Groningen Press (UGP).