News archive
Category: Research Support Update
Highlights 2023 – From a research perspective
Last month, we presented the Highlights 2023 of the Maastricht University Library. In this article, we would like to provide a brief overview of our achievements from the past year regarding research support.
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Embracing Diamond Open Access – a national project
Diamond Open Access (DOA) is a community-driven scholarly communication model that prioritises immediate access to research while upholding author rights and promoting diversity in publishing. The Diamond Open Access project in the Netherlands aims to strengthen non-profit scholarly publishing and aligns with bibliodiversity and open science principles.
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ORCID update – (Re-)Authenticate your ORCID iD in our research information system Pure
In the newest release of Pure, there were several updates to Pure’s integration with ORCID. If you created a connection between Pure and ORCID to synchronise your output information, now might be an excellent opportunity to reactivate the synchronisation again.
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Trial for Overton database: unlocking policy insights and research impact
Starting this week, you can access the Overton database. We are running an institutional trial for Overton, “the world’s largest collection of policy documents, parliamentary transcripts, government guidance and think tank research”, until 31 May 2024.
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Towards Responsible Publishing – cOAlition S needs your feedback
cOAlition S is seeking academic feedback on their Responsible Publishing proposal, paving the way to a community-based publishing system for scholars to openly share their research and engage with innovative quality control and evaluation standards.
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Data story: Research Software at Maastricht University
Research software’s importance has grown across disciplines, since it is a central component when doing science in the digital age.
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Access to public health literature with Global Health database
The University Library recently started offering access to the Global Health database (EBSCO). Global Health is a database that provides a truly global perspective on public health, indexing key literature not covered by other databases.
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Explore and test features of DataverseNL via its demo environment
DataverseNL, a repository available to UM researchers, provides a demo site for testing. Ideal for exploring its features and functionalities.
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FAIR Coffee Lecture: “Pandemic Science, Open Science and Research Quality”
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore Open Science and the FAIR principles and find inspiration in the work of others.
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Save the date: National Open Science Festival 2024 at Maastricht University
We are excited to announce that the fourth edition of the National Open Science Festival will be hosted at Maastricht University on Tuesday 22 October 2024! Please mark your calendars.
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