Think Twice Before Sharing Your Docs

Earlier this month, Yandex turned up results from Google Docs that clearly were not meant to be visible to a broader public. On the night of 4th-5th July, Russia’s premier search engine Yandex showed it is capable of returning shared documents in its sea

Make your visibility RISE (part 2)

On June 21 2018, my colleagues and I presented how to increase the visibility of both your research and yourself. You can find an overview of the afternoon elsewhere, but I'm sharing my presentation in full here, as an update to my 2015 WISE presentation .

Make your visibility RISE (part 1)

This spring, Michelle van den Berk, Rutger de Jong, and I were invited to present at the RISE network on how to increase the visibility of both your research and yourself. Today I wanted to share summaries of the presentations and workshop we gave.

ORCID Project Update

Almost a year ago, Leiden University Libraries started their ORCID implementation campaign. With most, if not all, of the technical implementation done, this seemed like a great point to give a bit of an update.

Does the Dutch Journal browser provide a steady alternative for Bealls' and Cabell’s?

Pirate Ahoy! Is a New Beall’s List Necessary?

It has been over a year now since Beall’s list of predatory Open Access publishers closed down. In the meantime, copies and new databases that black- or whitelists scholarly journals have emerged. Together with TU Delft, we tested Cabell’s solution.

How to get to the publication

Today's post is an update to one we published last year, featuring tools you can use to get a PDF of a publication you want to read.

PIDapalooza 2018: “Open identifiers deserve their own festival”

Last January, Peter Verhaar visited PIDapalooza 2018 in Girona. This edition of the conference about everything concerned with permanent identifers, such as ORCID, was a great source of information and inspiration as Peter's report shows.

DANS Open Day on Open Science

On March 21, DANS organizes an open day, co-hosted by the Young Academy of the KNAW and Promovendi Netwerk Nederland.