Results for tag: open access publication in the spotlight
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight - 'Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism'
| Date: | 23 October 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
Author Sven Gins (PhD student at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society) shows how animal trials in premodern Europe shed light on more recent cases about the legal personhood of animals that received global attention.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (September) - 'Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices'
| Date: | 21 September 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
This month we highlight a visual essay written by David Shim (Faculty of Arts), which draws on his experiences working as a food-aid monitor in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight - 'Mind the gap: Data availability, accessibility, transparency, and credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, an international comparative appraisal'
| Date: | 26 June 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
Valentina Gallo (Campus Fryslân) and her team mapped COVID-19 data availability and accessibility for nine countries. Their research highlights the importance of a transparent and detailed reporting of COVID-19 related variables.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight - ' "To buy or not to buy a home in a rural risk area" by mid-to-later life home purchasers
| Date: | 26 May 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
Buying a house in the Groningen earthquake region might be challenging. How do socio-demographic characteristics, housing attributes and earthquake circumstances influence the choice of mid-to-later life adults to purchase a house here?
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight - 'The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider?'
| Date: | 24 April 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
Replication studies help to restore the credibility of empirical research. Merle-Marie Pittelkow and team involved the scientific community to create a list of considerations for selecting a replication target in psychology.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (March) - ' The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar'
| Date: | 22 March 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
This month's article was written by various co-authors, including corresponding author Luis Valente (FSE). It emphasis that immediate conservation actions are needed on Madagaskar, in order to prevent an extinction wave with deep evolutionary impact.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (February) - 'Another article titled "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" or, the mass production of academic research titles'
| Date: | 20 February 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
Author Jaap Nieuwenhuis (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) shares his thoughts on selecting a title for academic publications and his perspective on open access and open science in general.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (January) - 'Early Detection of violating Mobile Apps: A data-driven predictive model approach'
| Date: | 23 January 2023 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
This months’ article proposes improvements in the vetting processes of deployed apps in mobile app stores. It was written by Fadi Mohsen, Dimka Karastoyanova and George Azzopardi of the Bernoulli Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (December) - 'Blind dates: Exploring uncertainty in the radiocarbon evidence on the emergence of animal husbandry in the Dutch wetlands'
| Date: | 08 December 2022 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
This article was written by various UG researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Science and Engineering. We asked first and corresponding author Merita Dreshaj to tell us more about the publication and specifically about the role of legacy datasets in her field of study.
Open Access Publication in the Spotlight (November) - 'Why mental disorders are brain disorders. And why they are not: ADHD and the challenges of heterogeneity and reification'
| Date: | 22 November 2022 |
| Author: | Open Access Team |
In this month’s article, Stephan Schleim (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) argues that - contrary to what the search for biomarkers in psychiatry suggests - mental disorders are brain disorders in the sense of weak, but not strong biologism.