3 days- 3 Webinars This edition of Open Access Week is dedicated to researchers and their need for guidance through open access publication models and projects. Join together, take action, and raise awareness about the importance of open knowledge sharing…
Event: Open Access Belgium 2024
Open Access Belgium would like to invite you to join the Open Access Network Event on the 12th of December to share best practices, foster community, and encourage knowledge-sharing on Open Access. By focusing on practical cases regarding predatory practices…
Preprints: Where are we now?
The term “preprint” is actually used for two related, but still slightly different, things. The term can refer to an author’s original manuscript (of an article, a book chapter, or a complete book) as it is submitted for publication (hence…
Training: Research Survival Game
KU Leuven Libraries has developed a game focused on the possibilities, requirements, and best practices regarding Open Access, Research Data Management, and in the future also Information Retrieval. The Research Survival Game follows a researcher who is stranded on a…
Food for thought: The role of the library catalog in an Open Access world
The common way readers use library catalogs is to find out whether they have access to a particular resource through the library they are using. Catalogs of academic libraries thus provide information about what publications a student or staff member…
Open or closed? Which availability to choose for your dissertation
Sometimes, researchers ask us to close off access to a dissertation that had initially been made available in Open Access through our institutional repository Lirias. The main motivation for this is the fear that publishers won’t be willing to publish…
KU Leuven Libraries Artes supports Sidestone Press
KU Leuven Libraries Artes has signed up for Sidestone Press’s library program. Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars. They have one clear ambition: to make scientific information available to all. Through their digital e-book…
Libraries and Diamond Open Access
The following is the redacted text of a statement given by Demmy Verbeke at the “The Diamond Open Access Model: what impact on research?” webinar organized by Academia Europaea Cardiff, KU Leuven Libraries and the Young Academy of Europe on…
Humanities Commons: More than a Scholarly Network for Humanists
If you are a regular visitor to our blog, you might have noticed that The Scholarly Tales is a blog hosted by Humanities Commons (HC). We, at Artes research, actively promote the use of innovative, non-profit and community-led platforms such…
Webinar: The Diamond Open Access Model – What impact on research?
On March 28th (2pm, CEST) the Academia Europaea Cardiff, KU Leuven Libraries and the Young Academy of Europe jointly organize a webinar about “The Diamond Open Access Model: what impact on research?”. The webinar is free and open to all,…