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VU Research Support Newsletter   Nr 5
2019
In this volume
ARCHIVING AND SHARING RESEARCH DATA WITH DATAVERSE
Keep your research safe with encrypted email
How to use Research Capacity Computing Services
Get Grants Desk Support for your NWA-ORC proposal
Podcast: Rethinking the academic reward system
The University Library for researchers
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ARCHIVING AND SHARING RESEARCH DATA WITH DATAVERSE
 
‘Dataverse makes it easy for me to store, archive and share my data’

'When we publish something about our research, we feel it's important because of academic integrity to make the data available as well.' Other people should be able to view and reuse the data, according to lecturer Sander Groffen, who works in the Functional Genomics department (VU, Science/VU University Medical Center). 'The online platform DataverseNL is ideal for sharing your data.' Sander Groffen explains how and why he shares his research data.

Keep your research safe with encrypted email
Keep your research safe with encrypted email

As a researcher it is important that correspondence and data exchanged by email is well protected for your research as well as to adhere to increasingly stringent privacy and security rules. An email encryption tool like Zivver can help you with this. Zivver will be available at VU Amsterdam at the end of May 2019. Project Manager Jos Leben tells how Zivver works

 
 
How to use Research Capacity Computing Services
Get the power – Research Capacity Computing Services

Virtually all research involves the use of (a lot of) data and the trick is to convert data into knowledge. Computing power has become an essential element in achieving this and for this reason the Department of Information Technology of VU Amsterdam offers researchers computing power. IT specialist Peter Stol and Daniëlle Posthuma, (Full) Professor in Statistical Genetics at VU Amsterdam explain how it works and how you as a researcher can use it for your research goals. How it works.

 
 
Get Grants Desk Support for your NWA-ORC proposal
Grants Desk Support for your National Science Agenda NWA-ORC proposal

Are you considering applying for the NWA-ORC 2019 call for consortia contributing to routes in the National Science Agenda? If so, please inform the Grants Desk VU/VUmc. We offer various forms of support such as: setting up your proposal idea or a stakeholder analysis, discuss considerations in your consortium, etc. An annotated template for the pre-proposal will become available in due time. On April 9, an information session is organized. Get support

 
 
Podcast: Rethinking the academic reward system
 
VU Library Live Podcast: Rethinking the academic reward system

How could the academic reward system be changed to facilitate research that is open and transparent and contributes to solving key societal issues? This was the question we addressed in the 4th VU Library Live Talk Show/ Podcast, together with our four guest speakers: Dr. Barbara Braams (VU), Prof. Stan Gielen (NWO), Dr. Jutka Halberstadt (VU), Prof. Frank Miedema (UMC Utrecht) Listen to the podcast

The University Library for researchers
The University Library for researchers

The University Library offers a wide range of high quality resources and services to support you throughout the whole research lifecycle. From literature research, referencing and research data management, to (open access) publishing and measuring your impact. Need assistance or advice? Ask your subject librarian. Library services for researchers

 
 
 
 
 
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The VU Research Support Newsletter is meant for all researchers and administrative staff at VU Amsterdam. It is issued five times per year.

The newsletter is a collaboration of: Information Technology, Institutional Affairs and the University Library.

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