News overview

The new DIY Podcast Studio in the Inner City Library facilitates recording and editing podcasts for the entire UM community ... Read More

Updates about Springer, Emerald, Walter de Gruyter and IOS Press open access discount agreements in January ... Read More

For each year, faculties and library set their budgets and carefully decide on which database licenses should be available for students and staff ... Read More

This week we take a look at two projects realised under the umbrella of the OCW/SURF-funded incentive scheme on open and online education ... Read More

New online resource focusses on company environmental, social, and governance (ESG) behaviour ... Read More

The Emerald open access discount agreement has reached the maximum APC discounts for 2022. Emerald has suspended the discount arrangement for the rest of the year. On 1 January, a new allocation of OA waivers will become available ... Read More

The University Library starts a new series of video blogs, called ‘Talking about books', where we put books (in print or E-book) from our collection in the spotlight ... Read More

Last week, we presented the first Maastricht University Press Open Access book online. A print version of the book was offered a week earlier to Professor Dr Rainer Prokisch on his retirement from the chair of International Tax Law at ... Read More

In 2021, we took another big step towards 100% Open Access (OA) in the Netherlands. Last year, Dutch universities made 82% of peer-reviewed scientific publications OA. Via publishers (gold OA) or university repositories (green OA). An increase of nine per ... Read More