Tropy, a sister project of the Zotero bibliography manager, is an open source program for managing and annotating research images and PDFs. For a thorough introduction to all of Tropy’s useful features, check out this recording of a webinar about…
Open Access terminology (bis)
A previous post shed some much needed light on the complex world of OA terminology. It certainly helps to be familiar with these names, although we cannot claim that all possible questions can be answered with one post. What about…
Event: CLARIN Café on the Rights of Data Subjects in Language Resources
Do you work with language resources that contain information about living people? You may be working with “personal data” according to the (relatively) new General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. This free event on March 30 can help you find…
Vacature: Informatiespecialist onderzoek met focus op digital scholarship in the humanities
Voor het team onderzoek binnen KU Leuven Bibliotheken Artes zijn we op zoek naar een nieuwe informatiespecialist onderzoek met focus op digital scholarship in the humanities. Kom jij ons team versterken? Solliciteren voor deze vacature kan tot en met 12…
Not Only Transformative Agreements
More and more institutions and consortia of libraries conclude so-called read-and-publish deals or transformative agreements with legacy publishers. But this new incarnation of the big deal is not without its critics. The hard line opposition argues that transformative agreements hamper …
Event: KU Leuven Open Science Study Day on 3 May
Would you like to discuss Open Science from a researcher’s perspective? Register for the online study day that will take place on 3 May. KU Leuven researchers will share their views on topics like reproducibility in research, citizen science, responsible…
The Open Access color palette
When navigating your way through the Open Access publishing landscape you will quickly learn that a color system is used to distinguish between the different types of business models for OA publishing. But what does each color stand for and…
Video: How to publish your book in Open Access with the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA & Leuven University Press
Are you interested in publishing your book in Open Access? Did you know that at KU Leuven we have a fund that partially covers the publication costs of OA books published by Leuven University Press? Well, now you know! The…