article for Wikipedia. Furthermore, students participate in a guided Special Collections tour, either on location or in the form of a livestream. During this tour, students are shown examples of psychology classics and other collection highlights held by the University Library.
During the first class meeting, students are introduced to the Special Collections and learn how to search for primary sources within these collections using the online library catalog. Students pitch and discuss their book of choice during the second class meeting, followed by a training session in specific discipline database search. During the third class meeting, students are instructed about the scope and writing guidelines of Wikipedia by a Wikimedia volunteer. Students present the results of a deep reading analysis of their book, for example, in the form of an argument map, during the fourth class meeting. In the fifth and last class meeting, students showcase their Wikipedia articles with brief presentations of their book reviews, offering room for peer review and general feedback from the instructors. Following this final meeting, students have time to finalize their Wikipedia book review and add it to their personal sandbox. A Wikimedia volunteer gives feedback via the talk pages. Detailed information about this course is centrally structured in a dedicated Wikipedia project page (FPN Historical Book Review, 2020). Students are graded on two outputs: the presentation of the results of the deep reading exercise and the Wikipedia book review. Since the aim of the Historical Book Review course is to write a book review, special attention is paid to the historical context and layout of the book (e.g., context, time frame, book reception, intro sentence, and headers).
Opening Up Old Books
Opening up old books: Investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht is an intermediate-level research project within the MSP of the FSE. In this project, students study historical plant books from the Special Collections. During this four-week, full-time project, students are asked to analyze historical botanical books in the context of contemporary science. The aim of this project is to conduct a comparative analysis between the contents of an interesting, important, or peculiar
