Envisioning a Scholar’s Lab at Leiden University Fulbright Specialist grantee Katy Webb has just completed the first of two visits to the Centre for Digital Scholarship to help envision what a scholar’s lab space might look like. The first phase of the work will investigate and report on the needs. Guest author • November 14, 2019
Piloting FAIR metadata with iRODS and YODA at Leiden University To make data FAIR, the corresponding metadata must be made FAIR as well. Leiden University is taking a concrete step towards FAIR metadata by participating in a national pilot on iRODS and YODA. Kristina Hettne • October 31, 2019
Young Academy Leiden supports Taverne pilot To highlight Open Access Week, Young Academy Leiden is endorsing the initiative ‘you share, we take care,’ which helps scholars upload their publications in the Leiden Repository and so achieve open access via the green route. • October 25, 2019
Durable access to book historical data A project to FAIRify a rich, existing dataset on the historical Leiden book industry shows how the data can be made more durable and accessible leading to more reproducible, more collaborative and more open scholarship. Peter Verhaar • September 30, 2019
Data Management Network Convening Event Around twenty members joined for the first Convening Event of the Leiden University Data Management Network. A working group has been set up to develop advice on collecting data abroad. The next convening event is planned for autumn. Joanne Yeomans • July 23, 2019
How do the FAIR principles translate to different disciplines? The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles are non-discipline specific, but the implementation of them needs to be! Top 10 FAIR Things are brief guides related to FAIR within several disciplines. Kristina Hettne and Joanne Yeomans • July 17, 2019
PLAN S: How can you comply with the new Open Access requirements set by your funder? A large group of research funders has joined forces in the so called cOAlition S to include strict rules on Open Access publishing as a requirement in their policies. When you receive their funding, you must comply with the requirements of PLAN S. Michelle van den Berk • June 14, 2019
Introducing the Leiden University Data Network A network will be established during 2019 by the Centre for Digital Scholarship to support Leiden University’s data stewards. Anyone at the university with a role or interest in supporting research data management is invited to register and participate. Joanne Yeomans • May 14, 2019
Send us your publications! UBL Helps with Open Access. UBL Helps with Open Access. At the University Library staff from different departments collaborate in the project 'UBL Helps with Open Access' with Leiden researchers to help them make their publications Open Access. Michelle van den Berk • April 18, 2019
