In December 2016, we gave a course on version control to a group of PE&RC PhD students, requested by PE&RC. The term ‘version control’ refers to the managing of different versions of the same file. Typically, such version control happens in a context in which the relationships between files also matter,…
On December 1st 2016 the National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) and the working group on research data from UKB (Dutch consortium of the thirteen university libraries and the National Library) organised a seminar about issues in the development of Research Data Management (RDM) policies. There were three sessions:…
There is a new experimental service, vest.agrisemantics.org that brings together different vocabularies that can be used as models for data in many subject fields that Wageningen is working on. In this blog we will explain why this is in our view good news for Wageningen and why it will help…
When people think about open access (OA), they immediately relate it with free access. And yes, free access is an important asset of open access publications. However, there is more to open access, which is especially worthwhile when you consider to publish open access yourself. According to the Open Definition…
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…
Open access (OA) is free access to scientific information such as journal articles. The main argument for OA publishing is that the outcome of scientific studies should be available to the public, industries, third world countries etc. However, there is a more direct interest for the authors themselves. This blog…
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) produces an increasing amount of digital education resources. The production got a boost with the introduction of MOOCs and online masters. Over the past two years hundreds of knowledge clips were recorded. The mindset in producing these course materials is to make it suitable for multiple…
Publications of researchers of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) are valuable for the green education chain and for professionals in the agribusiness. The library facilitates domain specific online gateways for information to this audience. With a gateway we place the Open Access (OA) WUR output in the spotlight. At the…
In January 2016 the Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (AWTI), published the report ‘Durven delen’. (The English version ‘Dare to share’ followed in April.) So far, in Wageningen University & Research, the report got little attention. The AWTI gives an overview of the positive effects of sharing publications and…
There are various incentives for Research Data Management. Financial reward, continuity of research and reliable science are only three of them. So far these incentives do not seem to have enough motivational power to make many researchers practice sustainable and secure RDM. Since RDM is important for Wageningen UR, but…