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Library Update

October 2024

Highlighted news items

Highlights from the National Open Science Festival 2024

On 22 October, Maastricht University (UM) proudly hosted the 4th edition of the National Open Science Festival. Guided by the motto ‘Meet, share, inspire, care’ over 350 visitors gathered for a day of engaging discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities.

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OpenUP Grant: Create, Share, Inspire!

Are you an educator looking to enhance your courses with innovative learning materials? The OpenUP Grant offers you a fantastic opportunity to license and share the learning materials you have created as Open Educational Resources (OER).  

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Randwyck Library: A library of the future

On Monday 2 September, Randwyck Library celebrated its official reopening with a diverse group of invited guests. On this day, guests had the opportunity to experience the library’s unique features and explore the crucial role it plays within the Maastricht University (UM) community.

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Maastricht University students publish reviews of historical books on Wikipedia

Nine insightful reviews of rare books from Maastricht University’s (UM) Special Collections have been added to Wikipedia, thanks to the contributions of students from a specialised course.

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Talking about books

In the series Talking about books, enthusiastic readers and authors promote their favourite book. Every 6 to 8 weeks, a new video will be uploaded to the UM Library YouTube channel.

Talking about books XIII

Nozizwe Dube, PhD candidate in International Law at the Faculty of Law, presents Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw and others.

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Upcoming events

UM Library Deep Dive: Research Data Management support

The library offers a wide range of services and support for the UM-community. However, it can be difficult to understand what a specific service or support can mean for you. So, what would be better than to hear from your fellow students, teachers or researchers? In the third episode of our video series "UM Library Deep Dive", Jill Coster van Voorhout (Associate Professor in (international) criminal law and human rights law), Alie de Boer (Assistant Professor, Food Claims Centre Venlo), and Belén Beltramo Gómez (PhD Candidate - Food Claims Centre) share their experiences about our Research Data Management support. Click on the image below to watch this video.

Did you know...

... that we offer the reference management tool EndNote? The latest update to EndNote 21.4 introduces several new features and improvements, including:
• Easily recover lost or damaged libraries
• Protect your work with the Data Restoration function
• Stay organised with the new Tags feature
• A new and exclusive EndNote Web interface
• Use Cite While You Write functionality in Google Docs™
• Improved search results for PubMed when using PubMed stopwords.
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