This is the 6th blog post in the series about the 100th anniversary of Wageningen University. In the perspective of One Wageningen we highlight in this blog post the collection of reports from Wageningen Research (WR). Anna Besse, Henrieke van Lieshout, Joke Webbink, Jorik Booij and Marco van Veller contributed…
This is the fifth blog post in the series about the 100th anniversary of Wageningen University. In this blog post we highlight the collaboration of Wageningen University & Research. Collaboration is visualised using publications indexed in Scopus and data from Staff Publications. International collaboration Wageningen University & Research is…
The Library celebrates the 100th anniversary of Wageningen University. In this fourth post we will test your search skills in Staff Publications with a puzzle. To solve the puzzle, you need to search in Staff Publications. Submissions are closed! We have drawn a winner and he or she is contacted….
This is the second blog post in the series about the 100th anniversary of Wageningen University. In this post we highlight the collection of speeches from Wageningen University. The collection consists of inaugural speeches, farewell addresses and Foundation Day speeches. The majority of the speeches is in Dutch. First speech The first…
The Library celebrates the 100th anniversary of Wageningen University by writing a series of blog posts on interesting facts that we were able to extract from our databases. The team behind these blogs consists of Joke, Anna, Marc, Gerrie, Hilda, Shauna, Annemieke, Koos, Marco, Jorik, Justine, Eva and Ellen. In this first blog…
In modern academia, there’s a great deal of competition for research funding. NWO accepts only a quarter of the proposals and for their major research programmes (Basic Research and Talent) this is even lower. For the EU Horizon 2020 program, the figures look even less promising. Only 14% of the…
Most researchers at Wageningen University and Research are familiar with the bibliometric analysis provided in Staff Publications, but the library also offers another tool to use for the evaluation of your publications. This tool is called SciVal. SciVal is based on the publication database Scopus and therefore covers more output…
The dark side of the transitions towards an open access publishing system is that some publishers only try to make a profit out of this and just publish everything that is submitted without any peer review. When I recently checked a publication list of one our institutes I came across…