Open Science Blog

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 fifth edition in this series is dedicated to the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

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 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.