Exams are coming up: extra library opening hours in May and June

Need to prepare for the upcoming exams? The library offers extra opening hours in the Inner City Library and the Randwyck Library. You can also use one of the 150 Bonnefanten Learning Spaces.

Thesis skills training sessions masters SBE

For master students SBE the University Library offers several skills training sessions from 19 June – 26 June 2013

Neal Cowan Room at Bonnefanten

Why did the the University Library decide to name one of the rooms at the Bonnefanten Learning Spaces after FASoS student Neal Cowan?

Turning ideas into literature

Blog about information literacy, including two video’s (5 minutes) about how to search for literature and the use of keywords when searching.

open access

Be aware of fake OA publishers

If you want to publish an article in an Open Access journal, you might be dealing with a publisher that is out on fast profit and breaches the promise to submit articles to a good quality peer review. Above all, the researcher will be tied up with a hefty bill after publication. There are several webisites with information how to avoid this.

Changing readers behaviour and the response of publishers

Is the way you read scholarly journals changed over the years and (how) did publishers respond to that?

Opening hours during Whitsun

Because of Whitsun (19 and 20 May) the University Library has divergent opening hours. The Inner City Library will be open; the Randwyc Library only on Saturday and the Bonnefanten Learning Spaces will be closed.

Website NHG geheel vernieuwd [Dutch]

De vernieuwde website nhg.org biedt vooral overzicht en gebruikersgemak.

Science Europe supports Open Access

The major European Research Funding and Performing Organisations have agreed on a common set of ‘Principles’ that should guide the transition to Open Access to research publications.

What’s new in the Web of Science?

An update training class on the new enhancements in the Web of Science.