New in our electronic #collection: ➡️ A sociology of awkwardness: on social interactions going wrong 🔗

Taylor & Francis

A Sociology of Awkwardness | On Social Interactions Going Wrong | Pauw

A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong. Combing insights from cultural sociology ...

A Sociology of awkwardness explores how awkwardness arises from social interactions gone wrong, offering the first comprehensive sociological analysis of the phenomenon. #Sociology #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Humanities #SocialSciences #SciComm #Books #Bookstodon

🆕 Out now: our study on #academic staff engagement on #Mastodon 🔗 Summary

Zenodo

PROJECT SUMMARY: Exploring Academic Staff Engagement on Mastodon

This research project explores the role of Mastodon in academic communication. Sparked by a shift away from X/Twitter due to concerns over misinfor...

💡 While Mastodon is valued for its ethical positioning, continued engagement hinges more on social and institutional dynamics than on technical features alone ➡️Ethical concerns drive adoption ➡️Peer presence matters more for staying than joining ➡️Academic institutions could be game-changers by leading adoption instead of waiting for grassroots growth #OpenScience #SocialMedia #AcademicMastodon

🎉 In our 2022–2023 funding cycle, the Open Access Book Fund supported 47 open access books! We’re celebrating by highlighting them all. Today: 📘 Technics: Media in the Digital Age 🔗 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048564552/technics We're also happy to share that this book has received the Runner-up for Best Edited Volume from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. 🏆 🔗

BAFTSS

Winners: Publication Awards 2025

[The shortlists can be found here .]

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Books #MediaStudies #Media #Film #Philosophy #AI #Technology

New in our electronic #collection: ➡️ Humanities in the time of AI 🔗

Humanities in the Time of AI

#Humanities #AI #OpenScience #OpenAccess #Education #Computers #Technology #Philosophy #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHumanities #HigherEducation

New in our electronic #collection: ➡️ Levels of Explanation 🔗 https://academic.oup.com/book/59296 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhilosophyOfScience #philosophy #methodology #reductionism ##metaphysics

Today, #library staff at the #University of #Groningen joined the #strike against the proposed budget cuts to #HigherEducation in the #Netherlands. We also asked #students to share their thoughts on a whiteboard: Imagine the university without a library. What would that mean to you? Here's what some of them wrote: (Photo credits staff: Manuel Reyes @npub1zfej...vr3e)

New in our #digital #collection: ➡️ Science of science : understanding the foundations and limits of science from an interdisciplinary perspective 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198937401.001.0001 'Science of Science' provides an integrated framework for the #science of science as an emerging field, and a comprehensive understanding of the foundations and limits of science. #Philosophy #OpenAccess #OpenScience #MetaScience #histodons

Our #OpenAccess #book fund is showing real results! One of our supported researchers, Stephan Schleim, shared that their book "#Brain Development and the #Law: #Neurolaw in Theory and Practice" has been downloaded over 4,000 times! 🔗

SpringerLink

Brain Development and the Law

This open access book is the first to offer a systematic overview of the different methods for assessing brain development

Stephan's publication was part of the first funding cycle that contributed to the publication of 47 open access books. 🔗

University of Groningen

Open access book fund (funding cycle 2025-2027)

OA book fund for UG authors

#AcademicPublishing #ResearchImpact #ethics #psychology #psychiatry

New in our electronic #collection: ➡️ Weighing #Animal #Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across #Species 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197745793.001.0001 #agriculture #farming #ethics #philosophy #neuroscience #OpenAccess

New University of #Groningen Press publication 🥳 ➡️ Spinoza’s #Yoga: Practice of #Power and Experience of the Infinite is now 🔗

Spinoza’s Yoga: Practice of Power and Experience of the Infinite | University of Groningen Press

#University of Groningen Press is# an #OpenAccess publisher, providing a publishing platform for #journals, #books and series, inaugural lectures and open textbooks by #teachers and #researchers working at or with the #University of Groningen.

University of Groningen Press | UGP | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

#Spinoza #philosophy