Whereas academic journals that offer Gold OA options have become widespread in the last decade, the transition to Open Access for academic books is lagging behind, despite the fact that monographs are still the leading publishing format in the Humanities…
FOSTER e-learning portal
If you are looking to enhance your Open Science skills, you might want to check out the FOSTER portal. FOSTER is an e-learning platform that offers various introductory tutorials that aim to make researchers, as well as research support staff,…
Event: DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium
The DH Commons (Merisa Martinez and Demmy Verbeke) and prof. dr. Julie Birkholz of the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities and the Royal Library of Belgium’s newly formed Digital Research Lab will organize a virtual DH discussion group for early career researchers in Belgium.…
Parthenos Standardization Survival Kit: explore standardized research workflows by discipline, method, materials
The Parthenos Standardization Survival Kit shows how researchers can use a range of tools, methods, and data standards to create a standardized research workflow, depending on their discipline, chosen approach, specific research materials, and so on. What sort of workflow…
Interview: Why Open Science? There can be no public trust in scholarship without openness
Mathematical engineer Joos Vandewalle, emeritus professor at the Faculty of Engineering Science (ESAT-STADIUS), is the very first Open Science ambassador at KU Leuven. Katrien Bollen, from KU Leuven’s Press Office and Policy Communications, interviewed Prof. Vandewalle about his views on…