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Edu.nl : URL-verkorter én QR-code generator

Via SURF hebben alle studenten, onderzoekers, en medewerkers toegang tot edu.nl, een (privacy) veilige URL-verkorter en QR-code generator waarbij je niet met je data betaalt. Binnen edu.nl kun je daarnaast eerder gegenereerde links beheren én nagaan hoe vaak er gebruik van is gemaakt.

Je logt in via SURFconext, selecteer je instelling, en je kunt gelijk beginnen

Edu.nl : URL-shortener and QR-code generator

Through SURF all students, researchers and staff have access to edu.nl, a (privacy) safe URL-shortener and QR-code generator where you do not pay with your data. Through edu.nl you can also manage previously generated links and see how many times they have been used.

Log in through SURFconext, select your institution, and you can immediately start

The Open and Responsible Science program (ORS) wishes to recognize projects that include open, transparent, inclusive, and responsible scholarship practices. In November 2022, ORS will award separate prizes to celebrate commitment to three important pillars of open science:

• Open Research
• Open Education
• Societal Engagement

The winners in each category will receive €2500 to be invested in research and educational materials.

Eligibility Criteria
Eligible projects must fulfill the following criteria:

• Carried out by academic and/or support staff employed at EUR and/or Erasmus MC at the time of submission. Examples: PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, lecturers, assistant/associate/full professors, data stewards, software engineers.
• Projects carried out by visiting staff with EUR and/or Erasmus MC affiliation at the time of submission are also eligible.
• Demonstrable implementation of one or more open research practices in the research project or educational activity (see Examples of Open Scholarship Practices section).
• The project has not received the ORS Award in previous editions.

Submission Procedure

• Self-nominations (i.e., projects the nominees have participated in) as well as nominations of other projects are welcome.
• Submissions will be accepted from August 23rd 2022.
• The submission deadline is September 30th 2022.
• Applicants must send an email to ors.award@eur.nl, with the following information in attachment:
  • An application letter (max. one page) introducing the project, clarifying for which award it is nominated, and why the application warrants consideration.
  • An appendix (max. one page) with a short description (one paragraph) and corresponding direct links to 1 project that demonstrates the relevant open research practices (see Examples of Open Scholarship Practices section).
  • Apart from the application letter and the appendix, no further material will be considered.
• If projects are nominated by someone who was not directly involved in the work, the project team will be notified and given the opportunity to supplement their application with information that the nominator might not be aware of. This procedure aims to level the playing field by allowing all teams to present the information they deem relevant for the award.
• Teams including early-career researchers from underrepresented groups as well as research support staff are especially encouraged to apply.
• The jury will only consider projects from the last 5 years (i.e.,. developed and/or published between 2018 and 2022).

Examples of Open Scholarship Practices

Open scholarship practices include (but are not limited to):

• Open access publication: gold, diamond, and/or green (on a preprint server, e.g. MedRxiv, BioRxiv, PsyArXiv, or institutional repository, e.g., Pure)
• Public sharing of analysis code, materials, data, and/or hardware schematics (e.g., on GitHub, EUR Data Repository, OSF)
• Public preregistration (e.g., on OSF Registries, EU Clinical Trials Register)
• Registered Report accepted at Stage I or Stage II
• Creating and/or contributing to open source software and/or publishing a data/software paper (e.g., on the Journal of Open Source Software)
• Creating and/or contributing to open educational materials (e.g., publicly available course slides, MOOCs, The Turing Way)
• Engaging the public and/or service users in the research and educational process (e.g., science communication, citizen science projects, living labs)
• Conducting “research on research” (e.g., metascience, philosophy of science)
• Engaging in open peer review, pre- or post-publication (e.g., PubPeer)

This list is not exhaustive. We will consider any other practices that contribute to transparent and engaged scholarship.

Evaluation Procedure

The jury consists of academics and professional staff knowledgeable about various aspects of open scholarship practices.

Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• quantitative assessment, e.g., the number of open scholarship practices the project includes;
• qualitative assessment, a cursory assessment of how open scholarship practices have been implemented (e.g., whether open data are properly described to facilitate reuse, or the specificity of a preregistration).

Qualitative assessment will account for the majority of the evaluation.

Applications will be evaluated in two rounds. In the first round, each application will be evaluated by at least two jury members^[1] based on the aforementioned criteria and assigned a rank. In the second round, the top 3 applications for each award will be evaluated by all jury members and the award winners will be selected. Should multiple projects be equally ranked, the winner will be selected at random.

We are again offering through ZOOM a number of general introductions to the Erasmus University Library and its collection under the banner Navigating your Library.

These introductions are free to sign up for and participate in and will last between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on the number of participants and questions asked.

These introductions take place at either the start or the end of the day, from 9.00-10.00 and from 16.00-17.00.

You can find a list of available timeslots on the webpage Libguides:Tools, where all upcoming events are shown.

ISLG is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with a competition. There are 5 prizes to be won and if you want to participate, send them a paper or video on how ISLG helped you conduct your research.

For more details, see LinkedIn

Due to the new corona measures, the number of study spaces available in the library has been limited to 400.

You can reserve your study space online:
Study Space Reservation Form [ERNA]

While navigating the library, please wear a facemask covering nose and mouth. You can take this off when seated.

You can now enhance your journal browsing experience with BrowZine. It allows you to easily browse, read, and keep up-to-date with current scholarly journal content on any device. And offers you titles from the library’s journal subscriptions as well as Open Access titles and articles.

Make it personal
·        With My Bookself, users may easily follow titles of interest and be notified when new articles are published
·        My articles enables offline reading of saved articles
·        Integration with EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley and other bibliographic services.
 
Download Browzine for free
BrowZine is available as a desktop version and as as a free app for all mobile devices.
 
More info
On our BrowZine Webpage you can learn all about the possibilities of the app.

Browzine: Law and Legal Studies Journals
Browzine: Business and Economics Journals

Ebook available at EUR: Being well in academia : ways to feel stronger, safer and more connected 

Review by: Stephanie Triefus

There are many challenges to working in an academic setting, and rates of mental ill-health are disproportionately high in both student and university staff populations. Fortunately, universities are increasingly acknowledging and tackling this issue, and more resources are becoming available to help those who work in academia to be well and advocate for their mental health.  Erasmus University Library recently acquired Being Well in Academia: Ways to Feel Stronger, Safer and More Connected by Petra Boynton. This book is an excellent resource for everyone who works in academia, whether they are struggling with well-being themselves or wish to support someone who may be struggling. A member of the LGBTIQ* community herself, Boynton takes great care to be inclusive of different backgrounds, noting the unique experiences of and providing resources for people of colour, disabled people, neurodiverse people and the LGBTIQ* community and those with intersectional identities. Importantly, Boynton accounts for structural causes of mental and physical ill-health such as racism, poverty and trauma, referencing the ‘Unrecovery Star’ developed by Recovery In The Bin (p 77). For those who may be triggered by some of the content, Boynton includes passages on staying safe as you read, self-care and a detailed table of contents so that parts can be avoided if necessary.

After the book is introduced in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 is dedicated to the critical process of creating and maintaining your support network, taking an expansive view including pets, social media and your doctor. Chapter 3 explores the notion of giving and receiving care, providing a loose template for a care plan and step-by-step guide to seeking help. Information on helping others includes a detailed list of practical suggestions for how to effectively help others without sacrificing your own wellbeing, how to spot if a friend or colleague is in a crisis, and how to be an active bystander to address unacceptable behaviour in the workplace. Chapter 4 contains a detailed checklist of things readers may desire, require or be entitled to in the way of help, such as reasonable accommodations, financial information and assistance and training, followed by suggestions for how to help yourself. Chapter 5 is a glossary of ‘threats to your wellbeing’ with suggestions for strategies and resources to try. A handy table of warning signs and symptoms is provided in Chapter 6 to identify if you or another person are in distress, followed by suggestions of how to deal with distress. The question of how to look after yourself is covered in Chapter 7, including practical tips on what to do when you are overwhelmed, how to craft everyday rituals and routines, maintaining boundaries, nourishing yourself and connecting with nature. Finally, Chapter 8 considers future plans, including whether leaving academia is right for you, how to make a skills inventory, and how to reflect at the end of the work day.

Being Well in Academia is structured in an accessible, easily digestible format with bite-sized pieces of information and handy cross-referencing of themes in the margins. While it is not a workbook, the author has provided space for readers to note their responses or fill in further information in some sections. Short exercises are dotted throughout, inviting the reader to do written or mental exercises such as writing a list of all their positive personal characteristics. Each short section is followed by a ‘find out more’ section with links to relevant resources, though these tend to be websites from the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Being Well in Academia is not necessarily a book to read from beginning to end, but rather to dip into as the various challenges of academic life arise. Students, teachers and support staff alike would benefit from sharing this resource widely and normalising conversations about taking care of ourselves and one another at university.

A new publication is now online available to all students and researchers at Erasmus University:

Janet Salmons & Helen Kara, Publishing from your Doctoral Research: create and use a publication strategy
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 
ISBN 9780429441257
Workbook - Publishing from your doctoral research

Available through sEURch

"Publish or perish" is often an expression uttered regarding the need for academics to publish in order to further their academic career. Publishing is not easy (or everyone would do it) and this book is intended as a guide for academics using their doctoral research as the basis for their academic publishing career. 

Consisting of 12 chapters, each chapter covers a specific issue in the world of academic publishing.

1. How can publications help build my career?
2. How can I create new publications based on academic writings?
3. Why, when, and how should I publish journal articles?
4. Why, when, and how should I publish books?
5. Why, when, and how should I publish book chapters?
6. Why, when, and how should I publish case studies?
7. Why, when, and how should I work with publishers?
8. Why, when, and how should I use alternative methods of publishing?
9. Why, when, and how should I self-publish?
10. Why, when, and how should I use social media?
11. Why, when, and how should I contribute to a blog?
12. How can I implement my publication strategy?

Obviously, this book is also useful as the basis for non-academic publishing.

Starting 13.00 CET today the 25th of January and continuing tomorrow, the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 is being hosted by The Netherlands.

That the climate changes is a known fact and results in 2 questions:

• How we can influence climate change, and
• How we can adapt to climate change.

CAS 2021 focusses on solutions to the second question: adaptation.

With flooding, drought and extreme weather endangering communities, food supplies, transportation and trade, this summit is a global venue to discus both the issues and the solutions. Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the summit is divided into different online events each covering a specific topic like disaster risk management, finance and investment, water, and infrastructure.

Programme
Climate Adaptation, Why and How
CAS TV Youtube Channel

Erasmus University Library is organizing workshops For Erasmus University researchers (Master+) on creating, managing and using an ORCID iD.

ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID, enhances the discoverability and visibility of your research, prevents name ambiguity issues, and saves time when applying for funding and/or publishing!

The next workshop will be held on Wednesday the 11th of November 10.00-11.30 but many more are planned.

Register for this workshop (or others) here!

Check the EUR Libguide for a good overview on what ORCID is, how it can make your academic life easier, or to contact the EUR ORCID Team directly.