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
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
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
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
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
Elsevier journals 100% open access: Dutch research institutions and Elsevier reach framework agreement
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and information and analytics business Elsevier have reached a framework agreement. ... Keep reading
How flipping a journal became about more than just Open Access
In January 2019, the entire editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Informetrics (JOI) resigned to start Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). They wanted a journal with the same scope and same scientific standards, but society-owned, open access and open citations ... Keep reading
Open Education: do not reinvent the wheel, get inspired
Open Education is part of Open Science, as became clear during the Open Science event last Friday, 25 October. Leo Köhler (FHML) presented the TOOL2-project and Costas Papadopoulos (FASoS) showed us the DARIAH Teach Platform ... Keep reading
An important step on the road to Open Science at UM
Rianne Letschert signed DORA on behalf of Maastricht University last Friday during the UM Open Science Event. Find out more about DORA and Open Science at UM. And read about the exciting OS related projects that were presented by UM scholars during the event ... Keep reading
De wijde wereld van het recht duiden met algoritmes
De pilot Web of Laws ontwikkelt tools die snel de relevante uitspraken filtert voor juristen. Met FAIR datagebruik en open science als belangrijke ankerpunten ... Keep reading
Analysing the wide world of law with algorithms
The pilot project Web of Laws is working to develop tools that quickly filter the relevant rulings for lawyers with FAIR data use and open science as important anchors ... Keep reading
UM Open Science event 2019
On Friday 25 October the 2019 UM Open Science event took place. Rianne Letschert started the event with the official signage of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) ... Keep reading
Micah Vandegrift – a Fullbright in Maastricht
Micah Vandergrift visited Maastricht University Library as a Fulbright-Schuman innovation fellow and stayed with us for 5 months between October 2018 and February 2019. ... Keep reading
