Open Science Blog

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.

This month's article in the spotlight examines how women scientists were portrayed in films in the context of fourth-wave feminism. It was written by various authors from the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

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.

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.

This month we put the spotlight on an edited volume which is dedicated to the topic of costumary international law (CIL). We interviewed co-editor Panos Merkouris, who works at 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.