What will be the effects of Generative AI on Academic Libraries?
This blog is an excerpt of our White Paper. What a librarian should know about Generative AI? The essence is that AI models do not understand a topic as humans do, but weave words together based on complicated statistical calculations….
Nominations for an Open Science award
The first Leo Waaijers Award The first Leo Waaijers Award will be presented at the Open Science Festival on October 22, 2024. The Award is intended for a person or group that has taken a daring, innovative and/or impactful initiative…
Open Access and the general public
Access to scientific publications I conducted a study on access forms to scientific information for an assignment for the UKB – the Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National Library. There were two lines of research: (A) how can…
Effects of AI on digital inclusion and digital citizenship
Alliance for Digital Society I carried out a study (23 interviews + desk research) for the Alliance for Digital Society – an organisation that unites multiple parties in order to realise digital inclusion. As Artificial Intelligence rather suddenly came into…
In memoriam Leo Waaijers
Vorige week kwam het bericht dat Leo Waaijers op 85-jarige leeftijd is overleden. Een grote en onverwachte schok omdat ik enkele weken daarvoor nog met hem uit eten was geweest. In 1988 trad Leo de wereld binnen van de wetenschappelijke…
APCs in the (French) wild
A shopping spree for data My French colleagues Antoine Blanchard and Diane Thierry (from Datactivist) and me had the opportunity to do a study on APC costs for the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR). Our proposal –…
Dashboards on the scholarly journal landscape
Asking your questions to the data During the first lockdown period I learned to work with Microsoft Power BI and the world of big data opened up for me. I used my limited competences to prepare dashboard on two datasets…
The road to 100% Open Access
Three studies for the VSNU and dashboards on the scholarly journal landscape From September 2020 to January 2021 I carried out studies for the VSNU on Open Access: a feasibility study on 100% OA for Dutch research publications and a…
Gebruikersgedrag bij Digitaal Erfgoed
Gedragsprofielen vruchtbare benadering Het project Klantinzicht van het Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed nadert zijn afronding. In de zomer 2018 is de voorloper van het project van start gegaan: Chris Groeneveld benaderde me om te kijken of de invalshoek van John Falk…
