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Heleen Palmen • October 30, 2024

Boosting Research Skills through Digital Data Workshops

During the Data Carpentry workshops researchers learn best practices and explore tools to make their data reusable and open, enhancing the efficiency and reproducibility of their research workflows. The next workshop will take place early 2025 in Leiden.

Kristina Hettne • October 08, 2024

Predatory and Questionable Publishing Practices: How to Recognise and Avoid Them

Four open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have now written a guide to provide insight and practical advice for authors on how to avoid questionable and predatory journals.

Tessa de Roo • April 10, 2024

The Year 2023@CDS

In this post we look back at some of the milestones and achievements made by the Centre for Digital Scholarship in 2023

Alenka Prinčič • February 12, 2024

What is your idea of Responsible Publishing and why it is valuable to join the new Plan S survey

cOAlitionS, a consortium of research funders including ERC and NWO, is inviting researchers to give their input their vision of responsible publishing in an online survey which is open until 22nd April 2024.

Michelle van den Berk and Rutger de Jong • November 20, 2023

Dataset publication by Leiden University researchers: research on the impact of FAIR data

Núria Raga Raga joined the Centre for Digital Scholarship for a 3 month internship to determine which repositories Leiden researchers use to archive their data and to what extent these repositories enable compliance with the Leiden University Data Management Regulations.

Núria Raga Raga • December 16, 2022

After the Collaborative Transcription: addressing the challenges of crowdsourced transcription

Leiden University Libraries support transcription of digitised materials in various ways, including methods that enable crowdsourcing. A recent international symposium and the exchange of experiences, produced insights that will help to improve how Leiden can respond to these challenges.

Ben Companjen • June 30, 2022

Preprints and preregistration: making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage.

We explored two different ways of opening up research at an early stage: preprints and pre-registration. How to go about making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage, and what can you expect to happen after you have done so?

Michelle van den Berk, Kristina Hettne and Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam • February 28, 2022

Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier Seminars on Reproducible Research: Wrap-up Seminar 3

The spreakers in the third session of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research explained the concrete steps researchers can take to make their research reproducible.

Peter Verhaar • May 17, 2021

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