
RDM Experts Community meeting – 13 April 2021
Join us for the next Research Data Management (RDM) Experts Community meeting. The RDM Experts Community meeting of April will take place on Tuesday, 13 April 2021 from 15:30 to 17:00 ... Keep reading

Submit suggestions for a new national Open Access plan – Your contribution counts
The National Program Open Science (NPOS) is working on a new multi-year Open Access plan. Do you have ideas, or do you experience bottlenecks on the way to 100% Open Access? Let us know, or respond to the linked recent feasibility studies before 31 March ... Keep reading

The FAIR Coffee lectures – 13 April 2021
The FAIR Coffee lecture series is a perfect chance to dip your toes in the FAIR water and find inspiration in the work of others!
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Using your own publications in education
OA publications can be used in education without any restrictions. But do you know how to use your own publications in education? ... Keep reading

RDM Experts Community meeting – 9 March 2021
Join us for the RDM Experts Community meeting of March! ... Keep reading

WiDS Datathon Maastricht – 5 and 6 February 2021
The Youth Data Science Community Board @IDS is organizing the Second Women in Data Science Datathon on 5 and 6 February. This year, the event will be fully hosted online. WiDS events aim to inspire and educate both students & professionals. All genders are invited to attend WiDS events, which features inspiring women talking about their expertise and experiences within the field ... Keep reading

The second RDM community experts meeting – 9 February 2021
Our team of data stewards organises a Research Data Management experts meeting every second Tuesday of the month. Join us for our next meeting on 9 February 2021 ... Keep reading

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

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