Weeklies Archives

For the past few months, OSCU has been at work rethink its digital presence. And we've come to realise that this will also have an impact on our physical manifestation. So as the new site nears completion, I'd like to tell you a bit about what we have in store.

The website is divided into three areas for sharing information in a more open and accessible manner:

First, we have a Calendar. Here we'll present OSCU events, as well as other events that might be pertinent to OSCU, Utrecht, and Open Science more generally.

Second, you will see a list of OSCU Activities. This continues the work of our previous website in indexing and organising all of the initiatives in and around OSCU so that our community can find each other and work together more.

Third, and perhaps most distinct for our new website will be OSCU Weekly. Gone are the semi-monthly newsletters in exchange for a new Weekly communication, that will come out every Friday with links, news, and insight from OSCU. You can sign up (forthcoming) to get the Weekly in your inbox or RSS feed, or catch then directly on the site.

In the weeks to come, we'll be adding an interactive feature to ensure more of a conversation. But I'll give more details on that next time. In the meantime, stay open.

Well, the fire destroyed the last of the university this week. Sad to see the law faculty go. But they put up a good fight. Without our buildings, or our books, or most of our computers, we’ll have to see what comes next.

But OSCU persists. And so we’ll meet next week and begin to plot a new course, start our own learning sessions and schools, build out from the rubble. See you then.

Howdy from the new OSCU Weekly! It’s a good moment to celebrate something interesting that happened this week: [A few sentences on what happened last week].

A few weeks back, I presented OSCU Publishing at the Oxford Forum for Open Scholarship. There I explained the mechanics of our cooperative approach to publishing and introduced the infrastructure designed by julien taquet. I’ll present an abridged version of this at our next Open Meeting where we will also hold another writing sprint for our first book, tentatively titled, “Open Science by Utrecht.” I hope to see you there.

Welcome to the Open Science Community’s new Weekly, a small newsletter dedicated to bringing you the latest news on open science developments and happenings in our region. Each Friday, we bring to your inbox a few words from around town on things we find pertinent to our interests in open science.

The newsletter is part of a larger overhaul of OSCU’s web presence and communication strategy, but we’ll write more about that in the weeks ahead. For now, please check out our new website as OSCU.nl.

And along with a new digital strategy, we have new events and programs for you to take part, as well. Come see us at our monthly Open Meeting or help us write a book with our new initiative OSCU Publishing. We look forward to speaking with you more soon.