Open Science Blog

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 implementation of the new open access procedural regulations resulted in a significant growth of the green open access share. We interviewed Ane van der Leij, head of the UB’s Research Support department, who oversaw the regulations’ development and implementation.

This month, Maeve McKeown reflects on her experiences with open access publishing and open science in general, the Recognition & Rewards programme, and how the neoliberal university impacted her as a researcher.

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.

Two UG projects have been awarded with funding from NWO's newly introduced Open Science Fund. We spoke to Dr. Imke Christiaans (UMCG) who is one of the co-applicants of the awarded project Umbrella HEART NL, and asked her to tell us more about how this project will contribute to stimulating the re-use of data to improve cardio genetic patient care.

Two UG projects have been awarded with funding from NWO's newly introduced Open Science Fund. We asked dr. Martijn van Leusen to tell us more about his awarded project, which seeks to use semantic modeling to create FAIR open data for archaeological field surveys. 

Researchers are increasingly asked to share their research data openly with the world. The UG's Digital Competence Centre facilitates this by managing data repository DataverseNL. Three data stewards from the DCC tell us more about this service.

An ORCID iD is a persistent identifier designed especially for researchers. Maintaining and using an ORCID iD will not only help you to receive recognition for your work, you also contribute to creating an open and robust research infrastructure. 

Dr Rose Harris-Birtill serves as Managing Editor across the Open Library of Humanities platform of 28 Open Access scholarly journals, and Editor of its flagship journal OLH, based at Birkbeck, University of London. In this interview, she discusses the benefits and challenges of open access publishing in the humanities and describes the publishing model of the Open Library of the Humanities.