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Article in the spotlight for December 2024
The article in the spotlight for the month of December 2024 is titled Revolutionary discourses from the past: a digital hermeneutical analysis of widely read academic publications on the social impact and significance of the internet, written by Nathalie Fridzema, Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg and Rik Smit (all from the Faculty of Arts). 

As of 1 January 2025, the Library Support Desk in the UB City Centre will have adjusted opening hours:

• Weekdays: open from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. 
• Weekends: closed 

The UB City Centre will remain open for visitors as usual, with the Facility Desk available to assist with general questions about the building.

As of today, the University Library offers access to Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online.

The annual quotas for open access publishing under the Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press agreements with the Universities of The Netherlands will be met in November.

The UB will be open as much as possible during the holiday period around Christmas and New Year. Read more about the opening hours uin this period (December 2024 - January 2025)

Access to the Financieel Dagblad digital newspaper will no longer be available through the UG/UMCG accounts as of 1 January 2025.

Cadaad Journal: new journal at UGP

RISe is launching a pilot service to help research managers recruit top talent. Contact us now if you have a vacancy and want to find your ideal candidate based on research analytics data.

On Thursday 5 December the University of Groningen Library will come to the Faculty of Science and Engineering! We will join the Mastering your PhD: 1st year event to inform PhD students how we can make PhD life easier for them.

Springer Nature open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that from that moment the deal will be suspended and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

The Dutch Research Council NWO supports academic journals that wish to transition from a subscription model to an open access model in which authors do not have to pay publication fees. They can soon apply for a subsidy from a new programme: the Diamond Open Access fund. A total of €500,000 is available in this round.

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers, written by Inna Majoor-Kozlinska (UG, FEB), Ulla Hytti and Pekka Stenholm (both University of Turku).

Following the theme of this year's International Open Access Week "Community over commercialization," the University of Groningen Library (UB) is highlighting community-driven publishing alternatives, so-called diamond open access (OA) initiatives. Want to learn more about diamond OA and how we support it? Meet our experts Giulia Trentacosti and Margreet Nieborg.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 is expected to be reached in mid-October.

International Journal of Homiletics included in DOAJ

Extra opening hours UB City Centre and UB Zernike: 12 October - 6 November.

The UG Open Science Programme supports the academic community in making the transition to being open. In this interview, Ana Ranitovic, Chief of Open Science and programme manager, shares the key achievements of the first programme phase (2021-2023), and looks ahead to what’s next: How will open science further shape the future of research and education at our university?

The book Beyond the Map: Descriptions of the non-European World in Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior is now available online and open access at University of Groningen Press (UGP).

The new podcast Open Science Bites by the University of Groningen showcases open practices in a to the point and engaging way.

Trial: AM Research Skills

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled The effectiveness and efficacy of driving interventions with ADHD: a Dutch perspective, written by Roy Noordhuis, Anselm Fuermaier and Dick de Waard (all connected to the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences).

User survey UB website: We value your feedback!

This two-hour self-study course is open to students, teachers, and staff from all disciplines. Enhance your critical understanding of groundbreaking AI technologies like ChatGPT and prepare yourself for the future of artificial intelligence.

The new podcast Open Science Bites by the University of Groningen showcases open practices in a to the point and engaging way.

In our series “I am what I read,” UG staff reveal the literature that has influenced their professional lives.

Opening hours UB City Centre and UB Zernike in September

The book is edited by Alain Dekker, Irene IJpma and Martha Martens. In this interview, editor and author Alain Dekker (UG/UMCG) describes his motivation and experience with publishing an open access book.

Summer opening hours UB 2024

Due to financial and technical reasons, the current RefWorks contract will not be renewed. Do you use RefWorks? Then switch to our other reference manager, EndNote.

How do you conduct a systematic review? What requirements must a systematic review meet? What types of reviews are there? The University of Groningen Library (UB) offers support in searching for literature for a systematic review. Meet Ina Vrolijk, academic information specialist at the UB.

The article in the spotlight for the month of June 2024 is titled A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It, written by Alexander Martin (assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts), David Adger (Queen Mary University of London, Klaus Abels (University College London), Patrick Kanampiu and Jennifer Culbertson (both from the University of Edinburgh).

Making the UG impact on Sustainable Development Goals visible in the research portal

Higher VAT on books also affects access to science

The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2024 is titled Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells, written by Hanneke Hoekstra (lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Arts).

Extra opening hours UB City Centre (1-26 June) and UB Zernike (7-27 June) due to the exam period. The UB CIty Centre is only accessible for students and staff of the University of Groningen (and other holders of a University card). Reserving a study spot is required. Hanze students will have no access to the library during these periods.

Trial Gale: Power to the people

UB closed 18 May

Opening hours UB April and May

How can authors recognise and avoid these journals? What can authors do if they have published with a questionable or predatory publisher? Open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have written a guide that provides insight and practical advice for authors.

Trial Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

In a significant stride toward advancing responsible research assessment and open science, the University of Groningen has officially signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

A trial is now available on Routledge Resources Online - Medieval Studies.

"Migration: A Philosophical Toolkit" (ed. Marc Pauly) is the first open textbook published with University of Groningen Press that was mostly created by students.

Books UGP included in AEUP catalogue

Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies included in DOAJ

The Trump Carnival : Populism, Transgression and the Far Right was published open access thanks to the financial support of the Open Access Book Fund of the University of Groningen.

On Monday 25 March, the University of Groningen Library will come to University College Groningen!

Meet Jette Veenstra, collection specialist for the humanities (faculties of Philosophy, Arts and Religion, Culture and Society).

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New collections in Adam Matthew Explorer:

• 1980s Culture and Society
• Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
• British Newsreels, 1991-1930
• Broadcasting America : the Rise of Mass Media and Communications
• Royal Shakespeare Company archives (1889-2013)

Friday 12 February the 50th oration booklet was handed to Prof. Bert Groenewoudt (Faculty of Arts)

The UG has signed a new Read & Publish agreement with the European Respiratory Journal. In addition, several existing agreements have been renewed. Through these agreements UG researchers get reading access to scientific journals, as well as the right to publish open access at no extra cost.

As of May 2024, the bibliographic management programme Mendeley will no longer be available via UWP.

New UGP publication: De Grote Methodiekengids

New UGP publication: Strange Bedfellows

All UG-dissertations from 2023 have been received in digital format. The PhD-regulations require that PhD-students submit the print and digital versions of their dissertations at least three weeks prior to the promotion date.

In the UB, it is now possible to use the lactation room, for staff/students as well as other visitors of the UB.

Open Access Publication in the Spotlight December 2023