Digital Scholarship Leiden

Projects

Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship

Thanks to an Elsevier Fellowship for Digital Scholarship, Paolo Rossini spent two months collaborating with members of the CDS. Using digital tools, he reconstructed the networks of René Descartes and his supporters from epistolary sources.

Guest author • 17-12-2019

Research Data Management Network

Protocols, pilots and practical guidelines: 2nd Data Management Network meeting

The Data Management Network had its 2nd convening event on 11th November 2019. The main topic of discussion was institute data management protocols. We also heard updates on progress from various interest groups.

Joanne Yeomans • 09-12-2019

Open Science

How flipping a journal became about more than just open access

Waltman and Wouters explain how a whole editorial board resigned from one journal and launched another open access journal, with, importantly, open citations. They share their views on the future of scholarly publishing in general.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • 19-11-2019

Projects

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 • 14-11-2019

FAIR data · Research Data Management Network

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 • 31-10-2019

Open Science

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.

• 25-10-2019

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