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🇩🇪 Während Serien enden, geht Wissen bei uns weiter. Genau dafür sind wir für euch da. 🤗

🇬🇧 While series come to an end, knowledge continues with us. That's exactly why we're here for you. 🤗

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At the beginning of this year, I had the privilege of photographing Peter de Voogd, professor emeritus of English Literature, in his study in Utrecht. He was about to donate a large part of his collection of and about Laurence Sterne to the Special Collections of the Utrecht University Library.

My colleague Conny van Bezu interviewed him:

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/it-makes-me-happy-that-the-collection-can-be-used-for-a-wide-range-of-teaching-and-research

#UtrechtUniversity #Utrecht #UniversityLibrary #SpecialCollections #English #Literature #Research

The University Library has decided not to renew its licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports). Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on Open Science.

#OpenScience #UtrechtUniversity #WebOfScience #Science #UniversityLibrary #Utrecht

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

Activities of TIB in the European university alliance “EULiST”

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Since 2023, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) has joined forces with 9 partner universities in the European University Alliance “EULiST – European Universities Linking Society and Technology”. The aim of the funding line announced by the European Commission is to strengthen the European bond through closer institutional cooperation and various exchange programs for the mobility of students, scientists and other university members as well as to improve the competitiveness of European universities. In addition to these goals, the alliance offers the opportunity to develop forms of education and research that are committed to the ideas of the Open Science movement and thus to transparency, accessibility and cooperation in research.

The participating universities are located in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Slovakia. Aiming toward finding solutions to societal challenges by employing an integrative approach to social, natural and technical sciences, many of them have a focus on the technical and natural sciences and are thus at the core of TIB’s tasks.

The TIB is involved in several processes within the alliance. It contributes its expertise in open software development and open access publishing and thus its many years of experience in the strategic development of open science. It has long been our belief that openness is a key building block for infrastructural and cultural collaboration, as well as for the unification of European campuses. Openness is a prerequisite for the production and distribution of knowledge without access barriers in a democratic manner. Moreover, it also offers practical opportunities for institutional cooperation and for innovative and flexible learning formats.

Development of open digital infrastructures and advice on publishing open access

The first step in bringing together digital offerings was to collect the services of the partner universities in order to develop a joint offering in the form of a Knowledge Hub. In terms of content, the Knowledge Hub thus offers the possibility of making open educational resources (OER), research data, publications and course offerings, among other things, findable across institutions via a central search entry point. As a technical basis, the TIB can build on the results of the Open Educational Resources Search Index OERSI. The subsequent use of the underlying technology has already been successfully tested using the example of research data with the search index for Research Software, Data and Terminologies with ReSoDaTe.

On this basis, work is currently underway on a central course catalog that brings together the courses offered by the partner institutions in one central location and makes them jointly searchable. In addition to specially developed search environments, other platforms such as Open Alex also play an important role, as they already have numerous integrations, particularly in the area of open access, and could potentially make up further components of the Knowledge Hub.

Other services developed at the TIB, such as the “Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG)” and the TIB AV-Portal, are also offered to the alliance.  For example, there was an introductory webinar in using the AV portal in April 2024 at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain. Also in 2024, the TIB organized the one-week online workshop “How is a scientific journal created?” for EULiST students and doctoral candidates. Participants got hands-on experience with all the players, roles, and important topics in the scientific publication process through simulating the founding of an open access journal. All steps were played through and then discussed.

Openness in international university teaching

Openness in teaching is the TIB’s topic in Work Package 3 “Learning and Teaching”. With the “EULiST compatibility check”, a concrete pilot project is in the starting blocks that focuses on and supports teachers as central actors in EULiST teaching cooperation. The offer of the project is a consultation process largely controlled by the teachers, in which the TIB offers support in developing course syllabi according to the principle of openness.

This means, we check the rights of use of teaching materials, including course literature, research open alternatives to content that is currently not freely licensed or check secondary publication rights of materials such as the journal articles. According to the LUH Open Access Policy, LUH members are generally required to upload copies of their publications to the LUH Open Access repository. This therefore applies not only to literature used in courses. Advice on the creation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the integration of Open Science training courses into seminars are also part of the portfolio.

Further plans include networking events for open access officers and counselors from the partner universities as part of a staff exchange to, for example, pool resources in the area of open access advice through training courses developed and offered in cooperation between universities. The first concrete steps in this direction have already been taken through participation in the working meeting of Work Packages 2 and 3 at TU Wien in February 2025.

We hope that these activities will strengthen Open Science in and with the participating institutions.

#ORKG #AVPortal #UniversityLibrary #EULiST #OERSI #LizenzCCBY40INT #TIBAVPortal

Do you use a reference manager, such as Zotero or Endnote? The Utrecht University Library would like to help you better use and manage references. That is why we would like to learn which tools you use.

You can help us by completing this survey: https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_8J4cQoYeWcmewcu

#ReferenceManager #Zotero #EndNote #UtrechtUniversity #UniversityLibrary #Science

"A Geek’s Wildest Deams" -- thanks to a library! :) https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/2024/09/10/a-geeks-wildest-deams/ #writing #script #musicalnotation #manuscripts #Cambridge #UniversityLibrary

I'm establishing a new routine called #ExLibris #Friday. Every Friday, I will post 1 ExLibris from my collection, the #NationalLibrary of Norway, or the #UniversityLibrary's digital collections.
Where possible, I will say a bit about the artist, the owner & the collection or how it came into my possession.
I start with an Exlibris made for me by #German artist & friend of my grandfather's, Willi Richter. I only have one copy, and I doubt more exist. It was a gift more to my grandfather than me.

One of my goals is to get our book into teacher preparation university #libraries. -Given that our book is the only book dedicated to describing how a public school program for students with significant social, emotional, and behavioral challenges should function, it needs to be accessible to people preparing to teach. -Also for people preparing to be school administrators.

book link: https://a.co/fol2ZoI

#universitylibrary #library #teacherprep #schooladministration #TherapeuticInclusionProgram #k12edcuation