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The FAIR Coffee lecture – 26 January 2021
On 26 January, the Open Science Community and CDDI are organising the first FAIR Coffee Event at Maastricht University ... Keep reading

Change of sender address of Pure alerts and updates
The sender address of the Pure alerts and updates has changed to ub-pure@maastrichtuniversity.nl. This change of address ensures that these PURE messages can nog longer be identified as spam, which sometimes happened in the past. ... Keep reading

RDM experts meeting – 12 January 2021
Join us for an exchange of knowledge, practices and resources in RDM at UM! We will talk about the researcher’s needs, create solutions together, and embrace future opportunities in our university’s RDM field. ... Keep reading

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) launches Open Science Fund
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has introduced a new funding instrument to stimulate Open Science ... Keep reading

OA Publishing Checklist | Open Access Tip
A checklist for Maastricht University (UM) and Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+) researchers who want to publish Open Access article using the services of the University Library ... Keep reading

Share your articles legally via “You share, we take care!” | Open Access Tip
Sign up for “You share. we take care!“, a University Library service to share all your peer-reviewed articles legally. Open Access tip - Maastricht University Library ... Keep reading

Open Science ambassador in the spotlight: Dennie Hebels
Open Access week 2020: the University Library presents an interactive video with Open Science ambassador Dennie Hebels about the Open Science Community (OSC) Maastricht and his experiences with ORCID, Research Data Management and Open Access publishing ... Keep reading

Onderzoeksdiensten: wie geef je toegang en hoe doe je dat? | Paul van Schayck in SURF magazine (Dutch)
Surf Magazine: SURF Research Access Management maakt het leven van onderzoekers makkelijker, met Paul van Schayck (PhD Maastricht University) over wie je toegang geeft tot onderzoekdiensten en hoe je dat doet. ... Keep reading

Open Day on Open Science: Drop your data FAIR
The annual Open Day on Open Science with the theme “Drop your data FAIR” will take place on 24 September 2020 from 13.00 – 17.00 hours ... Keep reading

The Limes Summer School: introducing the basics of RDM to a multi-disciplinary team of researchers
The Research Data Management team of the University Library hosted an online Summer School Session for the LIMES Project and helped the participants to draft their Data Management Plans (DMP) using the new Maastricht University DMP template. ... Keep reading

Data catalogue DataHub enriched with COVID-19 data
DataHub is happy to announce that COVID-19 data is now available in the local DataHub DISQOVER instance ... Keep reading

Dennie Hebels (MERLN) received an Open Science Use Case Award
Researchers Dennie Hebels (MERLN, Maastricht University) and Jan de Boer (Technical University Eindhoven) received an Open Science Use Case Award for their project cBiT: The Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics. DOI:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.10.008 ... Keep reading

Pure feature: discover attention for your publications with altmetrics
Altmetrics in Pure: Research Publications shows ‘Altmetric Donuts’ and ‘PlumX Prints’ for outputs. Read more about these new features and how you can use them for your UM and MUMC publications ... Keep reading

Personal information in Pure is up to date again
Personal data of UM employees in Pure are up to date again, and new employees can now log in ... Keep reading

Dutch research institutions and Elsevier agreed on a new extensive agreement
Read access to all publications in the scientific Elsevier journals and open access (OA) publication of peer-reviewed articles for UM & MUMC until 2025 ... Keep reading

Dutch research institutions and Elsevier: 1 May update
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed on a brief extension to finalise the agreement. For Maastricht University and MUMC+, this means that we continue to have access to all online Elsevier journals and that researchers do not pay APC for OA publishing in Elsevier journals until further notice. ... Keep reading

Public data sets in DataverseNL now also available via NARCIS
Published data sets in DataverseNL of UM/MUMC+ researchers have been made available through the Dutch research portal NARCIS recently. ... Keep reading

Free online course | Open Science: sharing your research with the world
This MOOC covers an introduction to Open Science and the FAIR principles, open research data, open access to publications and how to increase research(ers) visibility and impact. The course starts on 6 May 2020 and takes 4 weeks (about 4 hours per week). The course is open to anyone and is completely free ... Keep reading

Maastricht University provides a new, secure service that connects DataHub with DataverseNL
Researchers using the DataHub storage services now have the opportunity to make a dataset openly available via DataverseNL. From now on you can copy (parts of) a dataset from DataHub to DataverseNL with just one push of a button. ... Keep reading

Pure & Research Publications portal completely renewed
We are happy to announce that Maastricht University and MUMC+ have a completely new Pure. Pure and associated services, such as the Research Publications portal, have been back in operation since Monday 17 February. ... Keep reading