The CDS Summer Training Week 2025: looking back and useful materials going forward From 23 to 27 June, the third CDS Summer Training Week brought together over 70 participants for a series of workshops, lectures, and interactive sessions. Pascal Flohr and Peter Verhaar • August 11, 2025
Breaking down open access book publishing platforms: A comparative approach to publishing choices During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarhsip, Sunny Liu worked on a very useful comparison framework for self-publishing book platforms. In this blog you can find out what this is and how you can use it. Sunny Liu • November 27, 2024
Take your next step in Open Science Together we can make science open. Find the next step that fits your journey. Heleen Palmen • October 30, 2024
Predatory and Questionable Publishing Practices: How to Recognise and Avoid Them Four open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have now written a guide to provide insight and practical advice for authors on how to avoid questionable and predatory journals. Tessa de Roo • April 10, 2024
The Year 2023@CDS In this post we look back at some of the milestones and achievements made by the Centre for Digital Scholarship in 2023 Alenka Prinčič • February 12, 2024
What is your idea of Responsible Publishing and why it is valuable to join the new Plan S survey cOAlitionS, a consortium of research funders including ERC and NWO, is inviting researchers to give their input their vision of responsible publishing in an online survey which is open until 22nd April 2024. Michelle van den Berk and Rutger de Jong • November 20, 2023
On OA Week's Theme: Community What is Community at the University? How might publishing and Open Science help us realise a vision for Community? Dan Rudmann • October 23, 2023
Use the Rights Retention Strategy: Publish with a publisher while retaining sufficient rights for full open access In this blogpost, we explain how you can publish scholarship with a publisher and yet retain sufficient rights to the publication in order to make it available in immediate open access, regardless of the distribution model of the publisher. Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • December 09, 2022
Copyright and the European Commission Policy for Research An overview of recent studies, policy, and legislation surrounding copyright and research. Erna Sattler • November 17, 2022
