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Most innovative poster prize at Open Science Festival 2025
On Friday 24 October, UM Library colleague Shuai Wang received the Most Innovative Poster Prize at the Open Science Festival 2025 for his poster Designing Data Infrastructure Maturity Profiles. The poster presents a new framework for documenting implementation decisions in data infrastructures.
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Help students collaborate: 4 ways to use Microsoft Teams for group work
Did you know that Microsoft Teams offers tools to support student group work? A main benefit is that group work takes place in a licensed and managed environment, rather than relying on free tools, such as Google docs.
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Open Access Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge?
Knowledge should belong to the communities that create it. Unfortunately, commercial interests are increasingly controlling how research is shared, accessed, and valued. This week, we join the global movement that questions who really owns our scholarly knowledge.
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Come to Your Senses, a new Maastricht University Press open-access book
Maastricht University Press has published Come to Your Senses – A Senses-based Learning Guide as an open-access book, making it freely available for everyone, including researchers, teachers, and students.
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New workshop available: Introduction to Qualtrics
Whether you are preparing a thesis study, running course evaluations, collecting feedback after an event, or conducting research, Qualtrics provides a flexible and reliable space for data collection and analysis.
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Royal Society discount deal and new features added to our Open Access Journal Browser
We’ve introduced a new publishing deal and several enhancements to our Open Access Journal Browser, helping UM and MUMC authors make better-informed choices about where to publish Open Access.
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DSRI service update: status and recovery plan
The DSRI service is currently unavailable following planned maintenance in July. Updates to the cluster management software caused multiple issues with the data storage system, resulting in an unstable cluster and inaccessible data for users.
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Level up your research with high-performance computing: Join Maastricht Computing Day or Autumn HPC School this October
On the 27th of October the Research Computing Support team and SURF will organise the Maastricht Computing Day. Additionally, on the 27th and 28th of October they will organise the Autumn HPC School. Join one of these events to discover how high-performance computing can enhance your research, build practical skills, and connect with fellow researchers.
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Share your perspective on research data practices in the social and behavioural sciences
Take part in a national survey that will help shape future guidelines for research data and software management in the social and behavioural sciences.
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Workshop: DataverseNL in practice – Requirements, workflows, and best practices
On 6 November, the University Library is organising a workshop on DataverseNL. This is the data repository supported by Maastricht University to describe, publish and preserve research datasets.
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