ChemRxiv: Preprints for Chemistry On August 14, the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemie launched a beta version of their preprint server ChemRxiv. Rutger de Jong • September 21, 2017
BrowZine: Summer Reading Made Easy Summer time, when all the students are away and classes are out, is a great time to catch up on literature you may have missed in the past teaching period. Discover how BrowZine can make it easy to browse through e-journals. Mieneke van der Salm • August 04, 2017
ORCID at Leiden University On June 22, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organised an information session on the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) and its benefits and uses. This is a summary of the information covered that afternoon. Mieneke van der Salm • July 13, 2017
Why NWO should not terminate its Open Access Incentive Fund in 2018 2018 will sadly see the end of a very successful financing instrument: NWO’s Incentive Fund for Open Access publications. Why should it continue? Michelle van den Berk • July 04, 2017
Finding Access It's frustrating when you run into (pay) walls when looking for journal articles and time consuming to track down access. These tools can help you do just that from right within your browser. Mieneke van der Salm • June 30, 2017
Discover what ORCID can do for you On Thursday 22 June the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are organising an informative session on the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID). Mieneke van der Salm • June 15, 2017
Stay Open to Open Access In the wake of last month's launch of the Open Up to Open Access campaign by the VNSU, here is some more Open Access news. Mieneke van der Salm • June 09, 2017
Datamanagers network event The Centre for Digital Scholarship organises a network event for all datamanagers within Leiden University and the LUMC. Main goal is to get to know each other, learn about the different roles, share best practices and find solutions to common problems. Fieke Schoots • May 30, 2017
How Open Access may boost a promising career As part of its “Open up to open access” campaign to raise awareness about the deals with publishers mentioned in earlier posts, the VSNU interviewed two Leiden PhD candidates on their views on how to promote Open Access publishing among your researchers. Michelle van den Berk • May 18, 2017
