🎉 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. 🏆 🔗

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Winners: Publication Awards 2025

[The shortlists can be found here .]

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

Humanities in the Time of AI

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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! 🔗

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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. 🔗

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Open access book fund (funding cycle 2025-2027)

OA book fund for UG authors

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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.

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Early academic works on the #internet, such as those by @npub144rv...20qv or Castells, merged visions of digital transformation w/ critical perspectives, influencing both its technological development & conceptual understanding. 🔦December's #OpenAccess article in the spotlight examines these texts: how did their themes and discourses influence #InternetStudies and popular imaginaries of digital technology? 📣 Read our interview with @npub1yz4c...5nps 🔗

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New in our electronic #collection ➡️ Artificial intelligence and international human rights law: developing standards for a changing world. 🔗 Available #openaccess http://doi.org/10.4337/9781035337934 This #book explores how international organizations have addressed the actual and potential human rights issues caused by AI technologies. #AI #artificialintelligence #humanrights #law #ebook