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Maastricht University and MUMC+ students and staff can access the articles of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journals again. The current subscription runs until 2021.

Elsevier has expanded the number of journal titles in which researchers from Maastricht University and MUMC+ can publish open access ‘for free’ to 1650 hybrid titles. Researchers can now also publish in 250 open access journals without paying APC.

The Dutch scholarly publications portal NARCIS now presents more than 700,000 open access publications by Dutch academics. Maastricht University counts for 15,228 open access publications.

In late 2018, when the ‘current’ contract with Elsevier ended, VSNU and Elsevier agreed to continue the talks on a new contract while the existing agreements were maintained. Now the current contract will be extended for an additional six months to allow more time for the negotiations.

The University Library recently launched a new tool for researchers: the Similarity Check Service. This tool helps researchers to prevent sloppy referencing or plagiarism.

Micah Vandegrift lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina. He visited Maastricht University Library as a Fulbright-Schuman innovation fellow and stayed with us for 5 months between October 2018 and February 2019. His wife and two young children accompanied him to Maastricht and beyond.

Are you curious about the FAIR research principles? Do you want to know how to apply them to your own research? Funders, Publishers and entire research communities are making this cultural shift in Science making practices. Join us on 10 February 2021 for a day of full FAIR hands-on training.

Join us for yet another RDM community experts Meeting! Our past two meetings have been a success! Following this success, our data stewards team will organize a Research Data Management experts meeting every second Tuesday of the month. Our next meeting will take place on 9 February 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. 

On Friday 25 October a UM Open Science event will take place. Rianne Letschert will start the event with the official signage of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).