Open Science Implementation
The Open Science Toolkit is a carefully curated collection of resources designed to help researchers, institutions, and policymakers implement Open Science practices effectively. Covering key topics such as policy development, data stewardship, citizen science, and community engagement, this toolkit provides clear, actionable guidance to support the adoption of FAIR principles and integration with the EOSC. Each resource is structured to offer practical insights, trusted references, and real-world examples, making it easier to foster transparency, collaboration, and innovation in research. Whether you are shaping institutional policies or seeking ways to enhance public engagement, the toolkit equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to drive meaningful change.
Open Science Tools
This collection offers practical resources to streamline research workflows, enhance data management, and support collaboration. From FAIR data assessment tools and reproducibility checklists to open-source software for data sharing and analysis, these tools help researchers adopt transparent, efficient, and scalable practices.
On the platform AsPredicted researchers can pre-register their studies. Others can read and evaluate those pre-registrations. Researchers have to answer nine simple questions about their research design and analyses to pre-register a study on the platform. AsPredicted then generates a short, time-stamped pre-registration document (PDF) with a unique URL. This can be shared and read by others. Thus, there is no searchable repository of all preregistrations. A searchable directory of all preregistration is not provided.
The DMP tool helps in the preparation of data management plans. Researchers from participating institutions can log in from a corresponding account and then profit from an institutionally adjusted implementation. Researchers from non-participating institutions can also set up an individual account and use the tool.
RDMO (Research Data Management Organiser) supports institutions and researchers in the research data management of their projects. It makes it possible to compile all relevant planning information in data management plans and to manage all data management tasks across the entire data lifecycle
The specialist repository AgEcon Search is operated by the University of Minnesota and contains over 150,000 freely accessible full texts. These come from the fields of agricultural economics and applied economics in particular. All publications in AgEcon Search are also contained in RePEc. The materials contained in AgEcon Search are part of a series, conference or journal. These are organised by specialist departments, governmental institutions, non-governmental organisations or professional associations. You can get an overview of the data pools contained at https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/collections/.
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is one of the largest search machines in the world for content from Open Access repositories. BASE includes over 270 million documents of over 8,000 data suppliers and can be used for searching for and in repositories. The full texts are freely accessible in Open Access in approx. 60% of the indexed documents.
You can also search BASE specifically for Open Educational Resources. There are various options for this.
CORE is a search machine that summarises Open Access publications from different data providers. It contains data from more than 10,000 institutional and specialist repositories and publishers. It is thereby possible to carry out a full text search in more than 200 million scientific publications.
CORE Discovery provides a Chrome browser extension that gives researchers one-click access to Open Access versions of research publications when they reach a paywall. Behind it, thanks to CORE , is a dataset containing millions of full-text scientific.
DINI (German) certifies Open Access publication services in Germany. The directory of institutional and specialist repositories is a good starting point for German-speaking researchers if they are looking for quality-checked repositories for their own publication, because it is offered exclusively in German.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) contains over 40,000 scholarly OA books. They have undergone peer review. A detailed search can be used to narrow down the results.
DOAB also contains textbooks that can be found in a search. The extent to which licensing permits processing as Open Educational Resources (OER) must be checked in each individual case.
The Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated directory. It indexes high-quality Open Access journals with Peer Review procedures worldwide and makes them accessible. This database can serve as a good source for the search for reliable, quality-checked Open Access journals. Official recognition as an Open Access journal by the DOAJ, particularly if the DOAJ seal is received, guarantees the high quality of an Open Access journal. In the DOAJ, you can see if a journal demands the payment of an APC and if so, how high it is. A filter enables authors to search only for journals where the authors retain all rights.
Searching in the DOAJ for the name of a journal can also help to identify predatory journals, because this white list contains only Open Access journals that have undergone an adequate quality assurance procedure.
The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) is a quality-checked global directory in which scientific Open Access repositories with different types of content, including research data, can be found. It is therefore useful as a starting point when searching for suitable repositories for publishing publications.
EconBiz offers the possibility of searching for relevant economics publications. Thanks to the filter option, the search can be limited to content that is readable free-of-charge by setting a tick next to “only free full texts”.
With EconBiz you can also find open access resources for your teaching. Whether these are Open Educational Resources with corresponding open licences, you must check for the respective resource in each individual case. If you would like assistance with your search, you can find help on EconBiz here.
EconBiz contains articles from specialist journals, working papers, books and book essays, including the full texts of RePEc and EconStor as well as from ECONIS (catalogue of the ZBW), BASE and Online Contents Economic Sciences (OLC).
Four pro tips for searching open access literature and (open) resources for teaching with EconBiz can be found in this blog post.
EconStor is the Open Access publication server of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Economics and business studies researchers and research institutions can use it to disseminate their publications in a more visible and effective way. Publication is free-of-charge on EconStor. The full texts collected there (particularly working papers but also including journal essays, conference papers) are all free-of-charge and permanently accessible in the spirit of Open Access.
EconStor contains over 200,000 full texts in Open Access, particularly from the field of German economics research, above all working papers but also conference papers and journal essays. The EconStor publications are also part of the RePEc offer and are furthermore included in Google Scholar and EconBiz.
Tip: EconStor worksheet “Make your pre-print accessible”
Endnote Click, previously known as Kopernio, is a free-of-charge browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. With one click it gives you legal access to freely accessible journal articles. To do this, it searches through the journal subscriptions of your library, open databases and Google Scholar for full text pdfs.
Figshare is a commercial multimedia-repository with DOI-allocation, in which researchers can secure and share their research results. These also include illustrations, datasets, photos and videos. Figshare also offers a free-of-charge version for individual researchers. The private storage space is limited here.
You can search for research documents with the search machine Google Scholar. The search is free-of-charge. The hits include Open Access full texts as well as chargeable documents. Google Scholar works on the one hand like a specialist portal that lists all hits for a particular search, but on the other hand, it is the world’s largest Open Access search machine, because it links the best freely accessible version of a hit in the right-hand column. This means that Google Scholar is suitable for searching for and in repositories.
Using a public access feature, the profiles of researchers are, in part, freely available in Google Scholar, showing how many of their research works are subject to an Open Access mandate from funding organisations. This gives researchers an overview of which of their publications they may still need to make freely available in repositories (an upload to Google Drive, as suggested there, is not recommended under Open Access perspectives). The feature does not function perfectly however, and shows some weaknesses in the social sciences, for example.
GoTriple is a discovery platform aiming to foster networking and collaboration in the humanities and social sciences. It supports searching, finding and networking. Noteworthy is its multilingualism, based on a specially developed multilingual vocabulary. The service gathers publications in currently eleven different languages from 27 disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. These include Economies and Finances as well as Management, with more than 1 million and more than 800,000 publications and more than 8,000 and 5,000 projects, respectively.
A specific search for Open Access publications and/or certain licence models is possible. Integrated visualization tools can be used to visually prepare and evaluate search results. Other features include: a recommender system that suggests related publications, projects, author and user profiles, the tool Pundit, which can be used to add annotations to online publications and share them, and a crowdfunding channel that supports researchers in organizing the financing of their own projects. Publications, fields of work and reserach interests can be stored in a personal profile and other users can be contacted via an integrated chat system. There are also training opportunities, including video tutorials.
IDEAS is a comprehensive bibliographic database for the field of economics and accessible online free-of-charge. It enables searches to be carried out via a search template and browsing.
It is based on data from RePEc and around half of the publications listed there are accessible in Open Access.
KonsortSWD offers the possibility of searching for social and economic data in most of the 39 research data centres accredited by the RatSWD. The data search is a service from da|ra, a registration agency for social sciences and economics data.
Local Citation Network shows the relationships between articles in a visual citation network (graph) and is thus a good enhancement for literature search. The starting point is the entry or import of DOIs. The application runs in a browser (‘web app’) and the citation networks and data can be downloaded, that is why it is called “Local”.
The Local Citation Network is based on metadata from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, OpenCitations and Crossref.
Matilda is an open academic search engine aiming to make references and citation data as usable as Open Access scholarly texts and datasets. By treating academic documents and their metadata equally it seeks to give a fair place to academic content excluded from proprietary tools. Matilda searches more than 141 million research works coming from ArXiv, PubMed, Crossref, RePEc, HAL, Unpaywall and ORCID. It also offers various RSS feeds to keep you informed of changes to the results of a search query, citations for a publication, and works by an author and their citations.
The Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) is hosted by the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. It also contains over 50,000 economics publications from all over the world. These normally come from individual researchers who have submitted them via self-upload. The publications are activated by an editorial team and also documented in RePEc.
The MPRA is based on the open source software EPrints.
OAIster is a search machine for Open Access content with which the metadata of different document servers can be searched. That’s why OAIster describes itself as a virtual network catalogue for document servers. The search service can also be used to search for suitable repositories.
The Open Access Button helps you to find legal free-of-charge full text articles and offers an extension for Chrome. If an article is not yet available free-of- charge, the authors are asked to upload it to a repository and thereby to share it. They are supported in doing this legally (for example in the context of a secondary publication right) and quickly, so that everyone receives access, permanently.
According to the operators, the data that the Open Access Button uses include all collected repositories worldwide, hybrid articles, Open Access journals and articles on the personal websites of authors. It includes platforms such as Unpaywall Data, Share, CORE, OpenAIRE, dissem.in, Europe PMC and BASE.
Open Access Helper (OAHelper) helps you to find legal Open Access copies of scientific publications. It is intended to combat the problem that although there are more than 50 million Open Access versions of scientific articles hiding behind paywalls, these are difficult to find. The Open Access Helper exists in various versions, as a mobile app as well as a desktop version and as a browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox.
The Open Access Helper is based on the data from: Unpaywall, CORE, Open Access Button, OpenAlex, OpenCitations.net, europepmc.org and Retraction Watch (CrossRef).
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. It promotes the transition to Open Access for scientific books. To do this it provides open infrastructure services for hosting, depositing, quality assurance, dissemination and digital storage for publishers, libraries and research funding institutions. In partnership with publishers it thereby creates a quality-controlled collection of Open Access books. OAPEN should be regarded in the context of DOAB: Whereas DOAB, as a counterpart to DOAJ, is primarily a directory of Open Access books, OAPEN is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. Both are non-commercial and are financed via grants and donations (see: https://www.doabooks.org/en/librarians/scoss).
OAPEN also contains textbooks as Open Educational Resources (OER). They can be found within the framework of a normal search. The extent to which the licensing permits processing as OER must be checked in each individual case.
The platform Open Edition offers not only Open Access to books, but also to journals and blogs from the humanities and social sciences. Open Edition journals lists journals from the humanities and social sciences. From around 150,000 articles, 95% are accessible in full text.
The Open Science Lense is a browser extension available for Chrome and Edge that comfortably adds Open Access options to literature searches. The extension automatically scans the visited web pages for DOIs while browsing and shows directly with a button whether a publication exists as an Open Access variant.
The Open Science Lense is based on data from OpenAIRE.
OpenAIRE is an international search machine for research results, including research data, software and publications.
In OSF Preprints, over two million preprints can be searched for or found with the browsing option. Preprints can also be shared. Their impact can be followed with metrics such as the download figures and the number of hits. From the field of economics, RePEc is integrated here as a provider in the index and therefore also EconStor.
The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a list with institutional, subject-related and thematic repositories and harvesters. As an overview list of repositories, it therefore serves as a starting point for searching for suitable repositories for a publication.
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton is also responsible for the open source software EPrints that lies behind the registry, and is the operator of the registry.
RePEc (Research papers in Economics) is a freely accessible networked database service for specialist economics information. It includes the publications listed on EconStor. However it also includes bibliographical references, full text links and various rankings based on citations and downloads. Researchers can also create their own author profile here and thereby manage their publication lists. For many researchers, RePEc is the most well-known full text service in the field of economics. Approximately half of the 3.5 million publications linked there (above all, journal articles and working papers) are freely available. Registered researchers also receive a monthly email detailing the popularity of their works, their ranking and newly found quotes.
ResearchRabbit helps you discover papers by building your own citation network. Just start by using one or more seed papers. On this basis it will find more papers relevant to your topic of interest. The tool also boosts your literature search while you are not actively using it. ResearchRabbit says it works as a Spotify for Papers. By adding papers to your collection, ResearchRabbit learns what you are interested in and improves its recommendations.
ResearchRabbit also includes helpful functions like adding labels to the entries in your network, downloading PDFs of papers and receiving alerts for new papers related to your research topic. It also helps with literature management and enables collaboration with other researchers.
Scholarcy is a commercial tool that summarises articles with the help of artificial intelligence. This means that researchers can quickly evaluate how important a document is for their work, thereby saving time in reading it but nevertheless staying up to date. To do this the tool extracts central facts, illustrations and references within seconds and presents them in a clear form (as flashcards). It also creates links to the Open Access versions of cited sources. Furthermore you can also create a personal library with the flashcards (chargeable).
The platform Scite enables scientific articles to be detected and evaluated in an alternative way using smart citations. These show how a scientific paper is cited. To do this, they show the context of the citation and classify via Deep Learning whether it is a supportive or a challenging citation. Scite is integrated into arXiv.
For this purpose, Scite has evaluated millions of scientific publications and continues to accept more of them. They come above all from publishers, PubMed central, university repositories and authors.
Searchsmart.org helps researchers to find better and faster by choosing the most suitable academic databases for their particular disciplines. It offers a comprehensive comparison of most of the popular English academic databases, including search engines, aggregators, journal platforms, repositories, bibliographic databases, and digital libraries. Evaluating their coverage and functionality as well as their user-friendliness and relevance is also part of Searchsmart.org. Up to 583 criteria can be used to filter and sort recommendations of databases. You can limit the subjects covered for instance to Business, Management and Accounting or to Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
As an AI-powered tool for research literature Semantic Scholar uses machine learning techniques to analyse papers, extract meaning and identify connections. It then surfaces these insights to help scholars gain an in-depth understanding quickly.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is a website and document server for the rapid dissemination of research papers. An interdisciplinary service, it covers the entire social sciences. In terms of its large proportion of economics publications, it is the largest specialist repository in this field. Researchers can use the SSRN to search for research publications and make their research available as working papers using Open Access.
The Lens is an open platform for the mapping of innovations and useful information on them. In particular, this platform lists almost all patent information in the world as openly accessible, annotatable data that are integrated with academic and technical references as well as with regulatory data and economic data. In the future The Lens aims to make it possible to use document collections, aggregations and analyses jointly, to comment and to embed, in order to achieve open mapping of the world of knowledge-driven innovation. You can also search according to publication in The Lens, and when searching for Open Access publications there is a helpful filter according to Open Access colours and licences.
Data sources: PubMed, Crossref, uspto (United States Patent and Trademark Office), ORCID, European Patent Office, OpenCitations, DOAJ, WorldCat, PMC, Unpaywall, GRID, WIPO, CORE, IP Australia.
Unpaywall is an open database in which around 32 million free-of-charge accessible texts are collected. With the help of a browser extension for Chrome, it offers simple and legal access to the Open Access texts for download.
Unpaywall traces the Open Access texts on the basis of the DOI. The data, which serve to detect the Open Access texts, originate from Crossref and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The majority of the data however comes from the fact that Unpaywall itself observes more than 50,000 storage locations on the Web. These include gold OA journals, hybrid journals, institutional repositories and subject-specific repositories.
Zotero is a free-of-charge tool for search and reference management, which helps in the finding, organising, citing and sharing of research results. It has a browser extension. The scope of function includes the fact that Zotero is now collaborating with the Retraction Watch database and warns you when you quote something that has been retracted. Furthermore, the detection of full texts from citations has been supplemented by Unpaywall.
A Tutorial offered by LMU Open Science Center introduces Zotero focusing on integrating it with Quarto und RStudio.
DataCite is an international initiative to support access to research data. On the one hand, it offers an international search machine for research results in which a search for registered datasets is possible. In the process, more than 2,000 repositories are searched. It also offers researchers the chance to save their data and their entire research output in DataCite, including publications, software and funding data.
DataCite is an international initiative to support access to research data. On the one hand, it offers an international search machine for research results in which a search for registered datasets is possible. In the process, more than 2,000 repositories are searched. It also offers researchers the chance to save their data and their entire research output in DataCite, including publications, software and funding data.
Dataverse is an open source software for setting up a repository for research data, which can be used by journals or research institutions, among others. Researchers can use the general Harvard Dataverse repository or check the entities that exist worldwide, in order to set up a personal Dataverse collection. This means that the research data for the research community is more easily traceable and can also be shown on your personal website. Furthermore, data management plans are generated and the requirements of research institutions and publishers on the joint use of data are fulfilled. Dataverse or one of the entities helps researchers to make their research data more visible and thereby to receive recognition for their data through formal scientific data citations. You can also control when and with whom you share your datasets.
Emporion is a platform for Open Research Data and data papers from social and economic history. It allows searching for Research Data and data papers. Likewise, time series, historical statistical and panel data, vector geodata, text mining analyses, and data papers from social and economic history as well as corporate, environmental, and technological history can be published free of charge and in compliance with standards.
Figshare is a commercial multimedia-repository with DOI-allocation, in which researchers can secure and share their research results. These also include illustrations, datasets, photos and videos. Figshare also offers a free-of-charge version for individual researchers. The private storage space is limited here.
GitHub is a web-based platform and repository for version management of source code of mostly Open Source software projects. Version control is based on Git, the software for distributed version control. In addition, GitHub allows efficient collaboration with third parties thanks to functions such as pull requests, access control, error tracking and task management.
Every change (commit) in a GitHub repository can be referenced via a unique URL. Using the existing Zenodo integration, a release can also be published or archived on Zenodo with the corresponding assignment of a DOI. To specify the desired citation, GitHub supports the Citation File Format (CFF), which was specially developed for software and code. The tool CFF Init can be used to create the required CITATION.cff file.
Tip: A tutorial by US scientists Richard W. Evans and Jason DeBacker offers a good introduction to the use of GitHub and Git.
Similar to GitHub, GitLab offers the management and hosting of Source Code in software development projects and is particularly suitable for Open Source projects. It is based on Git, the system for distributed versioning control. The platform provides tools for all phases of software development, from source code management and code review to project management, automated testing and deployment. Thus, teams can collaborate efficiently, automate their work processes and improve the quality of their software.
The Community Edition is Open Source and allows you to host your own GitLab instance.
OpenAIRE is an international search machine for research results, including research data, software and publications.
On OpenICPSR, researchers can find and share social, behavioural and health sciences research data themselves. OpenICPSR is particularly suitable for the storage of replication datasets for researchers who need to publish their raw data in connection with a journal article, so that third parties can reproduce their results.
The Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) can help in the search for published research data and in the selection of a suitable repository. It offers a searchable directory of all the main research data repositories in all scientific disciplines. In order to find the most suitable archive for the publication of one’s own data, the platform offers search and filter functionalities (for example, according to disciplines, countries, data types, identifiers used and user modalities).
German research infrastructures can be found via the DFG-funded information portal RIsources (German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG). The research infrastructures listed provide scientists with resources and services in the planning and implementation of research projects. The research infrastructures listed have to meet quality criteria. This includes offering a recognised, established, scientific and technological service, allowing free access and having sustainable management.
RIsources is interesting for researchers, in order to find a repository for the publication of research data or in order to search for research data.
SowiDataNet|datorium is a research data repository for the fields of social sciences and economics. It enables researchers to share quantitative primary and secondary data easily and securely. The research data can be described in detail using a comprehensive metadata diagram. The research data receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) when published. A review process ensures that the data is quality-checked technically and in terms of content. A selection of access classes and Creative Commons licences makes it possible for the person providing the data to define the conditions for gaining access to their data themselves. SowiDataNet|datorium offers convenient search functions for searching for research data.
SowiDataNet|datorium is operated by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. It is based, among other things, on the SowiDataNet project, which was implemented in partnership with the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / DIW Berlin), the Berlin Social Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung / WZB) and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
The Lens is an open platform for the mapping of innovations and useful information on them. In particular, this platform lists almost all patent information in the world as openly accessible, annotatable data that are integrated with academic and technical references as well as with regulatory data and economic data. In the future The Lens aims to make it possible to use document collections, aggregations and analyses jointly, to comment and to embed, in order to achieve open mapping of the world of knowledge-driven innovation. You can also search according to publication in The Lens, and when searching for Open Access publications there is a helpful filter according to Open Access colours and licences.
Data sources: PubMed, Crossref, uspto (United States Patent and Trademark Office), ORCID, European Patent Office, OpenCitations, DOAJ, WorldCat, PMC, Unpaywall, GRID, WIPO, CORE, IP Australia.
Figshare is a commercial multimedia-repository with DOI-allocation, in which researchers can secure and share their research results. These also include illustrations, datasets, photos and videos. Figshare also offers a free-of-charge version for individual researchers. The private storage space is limited here.
Julia VS Code is an extension of the free Open Source development environment Visual Studio Code (VS Code) from Microsoft. It offers a wide range of functions that are specially tailored to the needs of Julia developers.
Jupyter is a very new open source platform that is in the process of becoming the standard platform for the exchange of research results. It supports interactive research data evaluations and scientific calculations with all programming languages through the development of open source software and open standards.
Project Jupyter is a non-for-profit organisation that was founded to develop “open source software, open standards and services for interactive working with dozens of programming languages”. In this project, the products Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab have been developed, among others. Jupyter is already being touted as an alternative to Microsoft Excel, because it offers a variety of advantages compared to the classic table calculation. These advantages include lower susceptibility to errors, reusability as well as better internal documentation.
Jupyter Notebook is an open source Web application with which you can generate and exchange documents that contain live code, equations, visualisations and documentation. JupyterLab is a Web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter Notebooks, code and data. It offers the elements of the Jupyter Notebook in a flexible user interface. JupyterLab can be configured flexibly, according to your own needs and work processes.
Tips:
- Example: QuantEcon Notes is a public repository that hosts Jupyter Notebooks covering all fields of economics and econometrics. The aim is to make communication between economists and the reproducibility of research easier. It calls for the submission of notebooks that include either original material or replications of existing studies in open and reproducible ways. Peer Review takes place in the form of upvotes and downvotes.
- Background information: Economics with Jupyter Notebooks
- The economist Jonathan Conning and the learning platform Dataquest offer general tutorials on the use of Jupyter Notebooks.
RStudio Desktop is an Open Source development environment for the programming language R. The software was developed to make working with R easier, thus it offers a variety of tools and functions that are specially tailored to the needs of data scientists and statisticians. In addition to the Open Source version, the service provider Posit PBC offers a paid version, RStudio Desktop Pro.
CiteAs makes it easier to cite correctly, not only literature but also a broad range of research output including software and datasets. Just type or paste for instance an URL, a DOI or a search term und obtain the correct citation in one click. Thus, CiteAs also helps the creators of research output because they will more easily get full credit for their work.
Jupyter is a very new open source platform that is in the process of becoming the standard platform for the exchange of research results. It supports interactive research data evaluations and scientific calculations with all programming languages through the development of open source software and open standards.
Project Jupyter is a non-for-profit organisation that was founded to develop “open source software, open standards and services for interactive working with dozens of programming languages”. In this project, the products Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab have been developed, among others. Jupyter is already being touted as an alternative to Microsoft Excel, because it offers a variety of advantages compared to the classic table calculation. These advantages include lower susceptibility to errors, reusability as well as better internal documentation.
Jupyter Notebook is an open source Web application with which you can generate and exchange documents that contain live code, equations, visualisations and documentation. JupyterLab is a Web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter Notebooks, code and data. It offers the elements of the Jupyter Notebook in a flexible user interface. JupyterLab can be configured flexibly, according to your own needs and work processes.
Tips:
- Example: QuantEcon Notes is a public repository that hosts Jupyter Notebooks covering all fields of economics and econometrics. The aim is to make communication between economists and the reproducibility of research easier. It calls for the submission of notebooks that include either original material or replications of existing studies in open and reproducible ways. Peer Review takes place in the form of upvotes and downvotes.
- Background information: Economics with Jupyter Notebooks
- The economist Jonathan Conning and the learning platform Dataquest offer general tutorials on the use of Jupyter Notebooks.
Overleaf is a cloud-based collaborative online LaTeX editor for research documents. Thus, no software has to be installed to write, revise and publish documents using LaTeX. Overleaf supports collaboration through change tracking. It also offers more than 400 templates.
Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor. It runs on various operating systems (Windows, MacOsX, Linux). Texmaker includes many features, thus allowing you to create LaTeX documents within a single application. Every LaTeX editor needs a previously installed TeX compiler (with LaTeX).
The most common TeX compilers supported by TeXStudio are TexLive and MikTex.
TeXStudio is a free LaTeX editor aiming to make writing LaTeX easy and comfortable by integrating numerous features and assistants. The integrated writing environment is available for all major operating systems (Windows, MacOsX, Linux).
Every LaTeX editor needs a previously installed TeX compiler (with LaTeX). The most common TeX compilers supported by TeXStudio are TexLive and MikTex.
Zotero is a free-of-charge tool for search and reference management, which helps in the finding, organising, citing and sharing of research results. It has a browser extension. The scope of function includes the fact that Zotero is now collaborating with the Retraction Watch database and warns you when you quote something that has been retracted. Furthermore, the detection of full texts from citations has been supplemented by Unpaywall.
A Tutorial offered by LMU Open Science Center introduces Zotero focusing on integrating it with Quarto und RStudio.
The specialist repository AgEcon Search is operated by the University of Minnesota and contains over 150,000 freely accessible full texts. These come from the fields of agricultural economics and applied economics in particular. All publications in AgEcon Search are also contained in RePEc. The materials contained in AgEcon Search are part of a series, conference or journal. These are organised by specialist departments, governmental institutions, non-governmental organisations or professional associations. You can get an overview of the data pools contained at https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/collections/.
ArXiv is one of the oldest and largest specialist repositories for preprints worldwide. It covers many subjects, particularly physics and mathematics but also economics. ArXiv contains more than 1.8 million scientific articles in Open Access, which however are not subject to Peer Review. Scite, a service for smart citations, is integrated into ArXiv.
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is one of the largest search machines in the world for content from Open Access repositories. BASE includes over 270 million documents of over 8,000 data suppliers and can be used for searching for and in repositories. The full texts are freely accessible in Open Access in approx. 60% of the indexed documents.
You can also search BASE specifically for Open Educational Resources. There are various options for this.
In the Clarivate Links Open Access Journal Title List you can search for Open Access journals with impact factors, that are linked via Web of Science. A search request or the journal browsing can be used for this. The tool is a freely accessible supplementary offer from the company Clarivate. The company is particularly known for its chargeable Web of Science offer in which the impact factors are calculated for journals of all specialist fields (for instance citation-based figures).
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) is dedicated to training and supporting editors, publishers and others involved in publications. The aim is to move forward the culture of publishing in a direction in which ethical practices become a normal part of the publishing culture. Guidelines, instructions, seminars and practices that journals and publishers require to attain the highest standards regarding publication ethics offer support.
If you want to make sure that a journal is not a predatory journal, then don’t just trust the details on their website. Check if the journal is a member of COPE, because this will give an indication of the seriousness of the journal.
CWTS Journal Indicators is a bibliometric tool. It aims to provide researchers with insights into the scientific impact of more than 20,000 research journals. The indicators have been calculated by Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) based on the Scopus bibliographic database produced by Elsevier.
DINI (German) certifies Open Access publication services in Germany. The directory of institutional and specialist repositories is a good starting point for German-speaking researchers if they are looking for quality-checked repositories for their own publication, because it is offered exclusively in German.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) contains over 40,000 scholarly OA books. They have undergone peer review. A detailed search can be used to narrow down the results.
DOAB also contains textbooks that can be found in a search. The extent to which licensing permits processing as Open Educational Resources (OER) must be checked in each individual case.
The Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated directory. It indexes high-quality Open Access journals with Peer Review procedures worldwide and makes them accessible. This database can serve as a good source for the search for reliable, quality-checked Open Access journals. Official recognition as an Open Access journal by the DOAJ, particularly if the DOAJ seal is received, guarantees the high quality of an Open Access journal. In the DOAJ, you can see if a journal demands the payment of an APC and if so, how high it is. A filter enables authors to search only for journals where the authors retain all rights.
Searching in the DOAJ for the name of a journal can also help to identify predatory journals, because this white list contains only Open Access journals that have undergone an adequate quality assurance procedure.
The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) is a quality-checked global directory in which scientific Open Access repositories with different types of content, including research data, can be found. It is therefore useful as a starting point when searching for suitable repositories for publishing publications.
Dissem.in is a web service that amalgamates metadata from different sources. It checks the full text availability of publications and was developed to encourage the use of repositories. Dissem.in recognises when publications are located behind paywalls, and invites their authors to upload them to an open repository with one click, thereby self-archiving them.
EconStor is the Open Access publication server of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Economics and business studies researchers and research institutions can use it to disseminate their publications in a more visible and effective way. Publication is free-of-charge on EconStor. The full texts collected there (particularly working papers but also including journal essays, conference papers) are all free-of-charge and permanently accessible in the spirit of Open Access.
EconStor contains over 200,000 full texts in Open Access, particularly from the field of German economics research, above all working papers but also conference papers and journal essays. The EconStor publications are also part of the RePEc offer and are furthermore included in Google Scholar and EconBiz.
Tip: EconStor worksheet “Make your pre-print accessible”
Figshare is a commercial multimedia-repository with DOI-allocation, in which researchers can secure and share their research results. These also include illustrations, datasets, photos and videos. Figshare also offers a free-of-charge version for individual researchers. The private storage space is limited here.
Free Your Science helps researchers to “free up” their already published articles from paywalls through self-archiving in Open Access. To do this, these publications are searched for using ORCID iDs, DOIs or their name. Free Your Science shows whether the publications that are found are located behind paywalls and whether they can be published in Open Access. The service achieves this by giving individual instructions on how to publish in a few steps, in a way that complies with the publishers’ own restrictions regarding self-archiving.
Free Your Science is based on the interfaces and data of Semantic Scholar, ShareYourPaper and Unpaywall.
The blog post “Greater impact without paywalls: New Open Access Tool: Free Your Science” describes in detail how Free Your Science functions.
You can search for research documents with the search machine Google Scholar. The search is free-of-charge. The hits include Open Access full texts as well as chargeable documents. Google Scholar works on the one hand like a specialist portal that lists all hits for a particular search, but on the other hand, it is the world’s largest Open Access search machine, because it links the best freely accessible version of a hit in the right-hand column. This means that Google Scholar is suitable for searching for and in repositories.
Using a public access feature, the profiles of researchers are, in part, freely available in Google Scholar, showing how many of their research works are subject to an Open Access mandate from funding organisations. This gives researchers an overview of which of their publications they may still need to make freely available in repositories (an upload to Google Drive, as suggested there, is not recommended under Open Access perspectives). The feature does not function perfectly however, and shows some weaknesses in the social sciences, for example.
Hypothes.is is an open source software project that aims to collect comments to statements that are accessible online in some kind of form. It filters and ranks these comments in order to evaluate the credibility of every statement. It could therefore be described as a kind of Peer Review level for the entire internet, which aims to stimulate open exchange throughout the web. With Hypothes.is you can have discussions, do social reading, organise research as well as personal memos. Collaborative annotating makes the reader more active, visible and social; furthermore, new possibilities for collaboration between students and lecturers are created.
It’s useful to consult the Journal Checker Tool (JCT) to help in the selection of a journal. The tool is a search machine that checks whether a journal complies with the Open Access policy of the funding institution in relation to Plan S. You enter the selected journal, the funding institution and your own institution. In the beta version of the tool, only funding organisations who belong to cOAlition S are listed.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual evaluation of research journals, published by Clarivate Analytics. JCR contains information about research journals in the social and natural sciences, including the impact factors. It thereby helps you to gain an overview over suitable (Open Access) journals for a publication.
The ranking can also be helpful for detecting predatory journals. If a journal is not contained in this respective specialist database, it could mean that it is a predatory journal.
The Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) is the successor to the International Journal for Re-views in Empirical Economics (IREE). It aims to become the leading journal in economics for research papers that directly refer to previously published articles, thus promoting scholarly discourse.
The JCRE extends its predecessor, IREE, by publishing commentaries on previously published papers in addition to the replications available in IREE. Since most economics journals are reluctant to publish these commentaries, the JCRE hereby fills a gap in the scholarly discourse. In addition to replication studies from empirical economic research, regardless of their outcome, authors can thus publish commentaries at JCRE whose publication at the journal of the original annotated article was previously rejected.
JCRE is peer-reviewed and articles are freely available in Open Access. There are no fees for authors.
Matilda is an open academic search engine aiming to make references and citation data as usable as Open Access scholarly texts and datasets. By treating academic documents and their metadata equally it seeks to give a fair place to academic content excluded from proprietary tools. Matilda searches more than 141 million research works coming from ArXiv, PubMed, Crossref, RePEc, HAL, Unpaywall and ORCID. It also offers various RSS feeds to keep you informed of changes to the results of a search query, citations for a publication, and works by an author and their citations.
The Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) is hosted by the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. It also contains over 50,000 economics publications from all over the world. These normally come from individual researchers who have submitted them via self-upload. The publications are activated by an editorial team and also documented in RePEc.
The MPRA is based on the open source software EPrints.
OAIster is a search machine for Open Access content with which the metadata of different document servers can be searched. That’s why OAIster describes itself as a virtual network catalogue for document servers. The search service can also be used to search for suitable repositories.
The Open Access Books Toolkit informs authors about how Open Access works for books and provides support for publishing.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. It promotes the transition to Open Access for scientific books. To do this it provides open infrastructure services for hosting, depositing, quality assurance, dissemination and digital storage for publishers, libraries and research funding institutions. In partnership with publishers it thereby creates a quality-controlled collection of Open Access books. OAPEN should be regarded in the context of DOAB: Whereas DOAB, as a counterpart to DOAJ, is primarily a directory of Open Access books, OAPEN is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. Both are non-commercial and are financed via grants and donations (see: https://www.doabooks.org/en/librarians/scoss).
OAPEN also contains textbooks as Open Educational Resources (OER). They can be found within the framework of a normal search. The extent to which the licensing permits processing as OER must be checked in each individual case.
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a coalition of publishers who offer Open Access as a business model. They include major commercial publishers such as Springer and Wiley as well as non-commercial university publishers. OASPA has defined the quality criteria for membership, meaning that the list of member publishers can also be understood as a quality indicator for their reputability.
The platform Open Edition offers not only Open Access to books, but also to journals and blogs from the humanities and social sciences. Open Edition journals lists journals from the humanities and social sciences. From around 150,000 articles, 95% are accessible in full text.
The Open Journal Matcher is an open source project to detect suitable Open Access journals for a publication. It checks the concordance of the abstract with the most suitable Open Access journals. To do this, it compares the similarity with abstracts from the Directory of Open Access Journals and provides a list of the five most suitable journals.
The Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open source journal administration and publication system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project to expand and improve access to research. Journals from all over the world are made freely available by OJS, in order to make Open Access publishing a practical option for more journals. Around 10,000 journals are operated with the help of OJS, meaning that it is the most used journal management software for Open Access journals worldwide.
The Open policy finder provides an overview of the policies of almost all journal publishers (formerly known as SHERPA Romeo), for example with regard to parallel publication in Open Access repositories. It also provides information about which version may be shared and conditions regarding the self-archiving of journal articles. This makes it a helpful tool for selecting a suitable journal for a publication.
Furthermore, the Open policy finder lists the requirements of research funding organisations (mainly in Great Britain) for third-party funded projects. The database (former name: SHERPA Juliet) can answer these questions. It contains current information about the requirements of research funding organisations regarding Open Access, publications and data archiving.
Open Research Europe is an Open Access publication platform for the publication of results from EU-funded projects from the research funding programmes Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. The platform contains research results from all scientific disciplines and is financed by the European Commission, which is responsible for the platform. The platform is operated by F1000 Research.
EU-funded research projects are not obliged to use Open Research Europe, but can do so however, in order to guarantee that the Open Access standards are kept. The publication fees of F1000 Research that are incurred during the course of publication, are covered directly by the European Commission. After being formally checked, submissions are published immediately as preprints (under a CC-BY licence) and then assessed in an Open Peer Review procedure.
Tip: Open Research Europe offers plenty of information about publication on the platform. Understanding Open Data by F1000 Research provides an overview about using Open Data on Open Research Europe.
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is both a free-of-charge network for research materials as well as an open source project management tool. It supports researchers in every phase of their project. It supports research teams in organising their collaboration. The entire research project can be made openly accessible, to achieve wide dissemination, but it can also be organised non-publicly. With the help of OSF integrations for workflows and storage, researchers can manage their entire project in one place.
OSF combines researcher tools that many researchers are already using, so that data silos and information gaps can be avoided. In OSF you can also search for papers, data and other research material. A pre-registration of planned studies is also possible. You can find examples for the use of OSF in the field of economics by searching for “economics” in the search field.
Tip: The following worksheets offer helpful information when starting to work with OSF
In OSF Preprints, over two million preprints can be searched for or found with the browsing option. Preprints can also be shared. Their impact can be followed with metrics such as the download figures and the number of hits. From the field of economics, RePEc is integrated here as a provider in the index and therefore also EconStor.
Preprints.org is a preprint service that enables researchers to make early versions of their research outputs permanently available in Open Access and immediately citable. Content on Preprints.org is not peer-reviewed, but can receive public or private feedback from readers. Citation is fostered as all preprints receive a unique digital object identifier issued by Crossref. When new versions of preprints are uploaded, they receive a different DOI. All preprints are published with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence.
The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a list with institutional, subject-related and thematic repositories and harvesters. As an overview list of repositories, it therefore serves as a starting point for searching for suitable repositories for a publication.
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton is also responsible for the open source software EPrints that lies behind the registry, and is the operator of the registry.
The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a list with institutional, subject-related and thematic repositories and harvesters. As an overview list of repositories, it therefore serves as a starting point for searching for suitable repositories for a publication.
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton is also responsible for the open source software EPrints, and is the operator of the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).
RePEc (Research papers in Economics) is a freely accessible networked database service for specialist economics information. It includes the publications listed on EconStor. However it also includes bibliographical references, full text links and various rankings based on citations and downloads. Researchers can also create their own author profile here and thereby manage their publication lists. For many researchers, RePEc is the most well-known full text service in the field of economics. Approximately half of the 3.5 million publications linked there (above all, journal articles and working papers) are freely available. Registered researchers also receive a monthly email detailing the popularity of their works, their ranking and newly found quotes.
The ReplicationWiki provides information about replication in the social sciences, particularly in the field of economics. The database lists for which published studies data and calculation codes are available, where these data come from, and which methods were used in obtaining the data. Already published replications or corrections continue to be listed. It’s possible to search according to keyword, author or journal. You can upload new replication studies as well as studies that could be replicated. In the case of the latter, a vote takes place among the members of ReplicationWiki on the studies for which a replication seems to be most relevant.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that contains scientific rankings for journals and countries. These rankings can be used to evaluate and analyse scientific fields. For example, journals can be compared or separately analysed. Rankings such as the SCImago Journal & Country Rank are suitable for identifying suitable Open Access journals for one’s own publication. The option “Only Open Access Journals” can be selected in Scimago. In addition, a limitation by subject is possible:
SCImago Journal & Country Rank uses the SCImago Journal Rank Indicator (SJR) and the h-index respectively. The rankings are based on the information contained in the Scopus database (from Elsevier), which is subject to a licence. The citation data contained in it comes from over 34,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers worldwide.
SciRev helps you choose a journal for submitting your manuscripts by comparing publication speeds, peer review quality and other journal statistics. You can search for a journal with a quick review procedure to have your papers published earlier.
The data comes exclusively from researchers who share their experiences with peer review processes. SciRev is thus made by researchers for researchers. It generally aims to make the scientific review process more transparent and efficient to prevent unnecessary loss of time in the research process.
ShareYourPaper helps researchers to make their research visible and thereby to receive more citations. It makes self-archiving easy by helping to make postprints and/or “author accepted manuscripts” of journal papers available in Open Access quickly, free-of-charge and legally on Zenodo.
Authors simply have to enter the DOI of their published paper. In a few short steps, ShareYourPaper then checks to what extent self-archiving is possible in accordance with the journal policy, and guides the author on how to select and prepare the correct manuscript for the upload.
SocArXiv is an Open Access platform for the social sciences (based on OSF Preprints). You can upload working papers, preprints and published papers on it, with the option of also linking data and code.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is a website and document server for the rapid dissemination of research papers. An interdisciplinary service, it covers the entire social sciences. In terms of its large proportion of economics publications, it is the largest specialist repository in this field. Researchers can use the SSRN to search for research publications and make their research available as working papers using Open Access.
The website Think. Check. Submit. offers criteria for the evaluation of the professionalism of a journal. It helps researchers to identify trustworthy journals and publishers.
The TOP Factor is a project of the Center for Open Science. It evaluates journals in terms of their transparency and openness. The aim is to make a contribution to changing the attitude of publishers towards more reproducibility and transparency. To do this the journals (which are not all necessarily accessible in Open Access) are evaluated using ten different criteria, of which the availability of data is one. Top Factor can be helpful in the selection of a suitable (Open Access) journal for publication, because it shows which journals deal with research data transparently.
Transpose – TRANsparency in Scholarly Publishing for Open Scholarship Evolution is a database that contains journal policies for the three fields Open (Peer) Review, co-reviewing and preprints. Transpose thereby supports researchers, among others, in finding more easily journals that meet their requirements. They can find out, for example, which journals give them credit for Peer Review and which publish Peer Review. In this way, they can select journals if they want some further constructive feedback on their research, or if they would like to see examples for good and poor Peer Review, for example.
VHB-Rating (previous version: VHB-JOURQUAL3) is a rating of relevant journals in business studies on the basis of decisions by members of the German Academic Association of Business Research (Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V / VHB). It is divided into 18 specialised sub-ratings. The VHB is the leading academic association in the field of business research and business studies in the German-speaking countries. This means that the rating during the selection of a suitable journal can be helpful for publication in the field of business studies, owing to the journal’s reputation.
Zenodo is a free-of-charge, cross-disciplinary repository that is primarily used for scientific datasets but also for science-related software, publications, reports, presentations, videos and similar. The self-archiving of research results there is an easy and free-of-charge way to receive a citable DOI because publications receive these automatically here. ORCID and user statistics are also integrated. The repository service GitHub is integrated into Zenodo in order to make the source texts saved there citable.
Hypothes.is is an open source software project that aims to collect comments to statements that are accessible online in some kind of form. It filters and ranks these comments in order to evaluate the credibility of every statement. It could therefore be described as a kind of Peer Review level for the entire internet, which aims to stimulate open exchange throughout the web. With Hypothes.is you can have discussions, do social reading, organise research as well as personal memos. Collaborative annotating makes the reader more active, visible and social; furthermore, new possibilities for collaboration between students and lecturers are created.
PubPeer makes it possible to give feedback to preprints or also other published scientific publications. The platform thereby serves the principle of Open Peer Review. Anonymous comments are permitted, which has led to some controversy, but at the same time, has also contributed to PubPeer’s success.
Retraction Watch is a blog about retracted publications and a database of retracted publications.
The platform Scite enables scientific articles to be detected and evaluated in an alternative way using smart citations. These show how a scientific paper is cited. To do this, they show the context of the citation and classify via Deep Learning whether it is a supportive or a challenging citation. Scite is integrated into arXiv.
For this purpose, Scite has evaluated millions of scientific publications and continues to accept more of them. They come above all from publishers, PubMed central, university repositories and authors.
The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) aims to improve the computational reproducibility of social science research, hence the ability to reproduce the results, tables, and other figures found in research articles using data, code, and materials made available by authors. The platform is meant to be used in combination with the Guide for Accelerating Computational Reproducibility (ACRe Guide), which includes detailed steps and criteria for assessing and improving reproducibility. The SSRP represents a more nuanced approach to reproducibility than “reproducible” or “not reproducible” because reproducers analyse individual claims and their associated display items.
The ARDC FAIR Data Self Assessment Tool helps researchers assess how FAIR their data set is. To do this, a series of questions must be answered in the self-assessment tool. Based on these answers, the “FAIRness” of the data set is determined. This makes it easier to find out how the FAIRness of the data set can be improved if necessary.
CFF Init is a user-friendly online tool for creating Citation File Format (CFF) files for software or code. CFF is a simple format that allows researchers and developers to add citable metadata about their projects directly to the project directory in the form of a CITATION.cff file. With CFF Init, you can create new CITATION.cff files or update existing ones.
Platforms such as GitHub and Zenodo support the format and generate corresponding citation suggestions from the specified metadata.
da|ra is a central DOI registration agency in Germany for social science and economic datasets. It is open exclusively to research institutions. Before being able to allocated DOIs, they need to join the da|ra consortium and pay an annual consortium fee. Use of the DOI service is free-of-charge for researchers.
DataCite is an international initiative to support access to research data. On the one hand, it offers an international search machine for research results in which a search for registered datasets is possible. In the process, more than 2,000 repositories are searched. It also offers researchers the chance to save their data and their entire research output in DataCite, including publications, software and funding data.
Dataverse is an open source software for setting up a repository for research data, which can be used by journals or research institutions, among others. Researchers can use the general Harvard Dataverse repository or check the entities that exist worldwide, in order to set up a personal Dataverse collection. This means that the research data for the research community is more easily traceable and can also be shown on your personal website. Furthermore, data management plans are generated and the requirements of research institutions and publishers on the joint use of data are fulfilled. Dataverse or one of the entities helps researchers to make their research data more visible and thereby to receive recognition for their data through formal scientific data citations. You can also control when and with whom you share your datasets.
Docker is an Open Source platform that enables developers to create, deploy and run applications in containers. These containers include all the necessary components, such as code, runtime, system tools, libraries and settings. This allows the application to run consistently and reliably in any environment. A text file called “Dockerfile” is used to specify instructions to create an executable Docker image (container). Docker is used by researchers, for example, to encapsulate data analyses including data and code in one environment and thus make them reproducible.
With Docker Desktop, all components are available for local installation on your computer. Docker also offers a service for managing and sharing existing Docker images, called Docker Hub, which itself is not Open Source.
Emporion is a platform for Open Research Data and data papers from social and economic history. It allows searching for Research Data and data papers. Likewise, time series, historical statistical and panel data, vector geodata, text mining analyses, and data papers from social and economic history as well as corporate, environmental, and technological history can be published free of charge and in compliance with standards.
F-UJI is an automated FAIR data assessment tool. It can be used to check the extent to which an individual data record complies with the FAIR principles . After entering a persistent identifier (such as a DOI) or a URL of the data set, F-UJI checks whether it meets the FAIR criteria. For the checked dataset, F-UJI thus provides indications of the extent to which the FAIR principles are already well applied there
As the service tool is still under development, the results are not perfect and its assessment depends on several factors. Users can find out more about these on the F-UJI website. However, researchers can at least get an impression of which points they should take a closer look at or optimize in their own data set.
The tool applies the FAIRsFAIR Data Object Assessment Metrics, which were developed in the EU project FAIRsFAIR.
FAIR-Aware is a knowledge testing tool for FAIR data. Researchers can use it to test their knowledge in order to make their datasets FAIR before uploading them to a data repository. For this purpose, FAIR-Aware includes ten questions. These also contain additional information and practical tips about FAIR data.
FAIRsharing is a helpful tool – it offers a curated, searchable overview of data and metadata standards, linked to databases and data policies. Its central focus lies in life sciences, environmental sciences, biosciences and medical sciences. FAIRsharing supports you in making your own data better findable and thereby potentially more often cited. Researchers can also use FAIRsharing as a reference guide to identify the standards that exist for their data and discipline. This can be helpful during the preparation of a data management plan for a funding application, a funded project or when submitting a manuscript to a journal.
Figshare is a commercial multimedia-repository with DOI-allocation, in which researchers can secure and share their research results. These also include illustrations, datasets, photos and videos. Figshare also offers a free-of-charge version for individual researchers. The private storage space is limited here.
GitHub is a web-based platform and repository for version management of source code of mostly Open Source software projects. Version control is based on Git, the software for distributed version control. In addition, GitHub allows efficient collaboration with third parties thanks to functions such as pull requests, access control, error tracking and task management.
Every change (commit) in a GitHub repository can be referenced via a unique URL. Using the existing Zenodo integration, a release can also be published or archived on Zenodo with the corresponding assignment of a DOI. To specify the desired citation, GitHub supports the Citation File Format (CFF), which was specially developed for software and code. The tool CFF Init can be used to create the required CITATION.cff file.
Tip: A tutorial by US scientists Richard W. Evans and Jason DeBacker offers a good introduction to the use of GitHub and Git.
Similar to GitHub, GitLab offers the management and hosting of Source Code in software development projects and is particularly suitable for Open Source projects. It is based on Git, the system for distributed versioning control. The platform provides tools for all phases of software development, from source code management and code review to project management, automated testing and deployment. Thus, teams can collaborate efficiently, automate their work processes and improve the quality of their software.
The Community Edition is Open Source and allows you to host your own GitLab instance.
MyBinder is a cloud platform that allows Jupyter Notebooks to be started and shared directly from a Git repository. Changes can be transferred back to the GitHub repository, hosting right in MyBinder itself is not possible.
Using the tool Octopub, developed by the Open Data Institute, you can learn about the future of Open Data publishing, according to the operator. It helps researchers to validate their data, select the correct licence and publish the data on the collaborative platform GitHub. To do this, you are guided step by step through the publication process, whereby a dataset is prepared and its quality checked before publication on GitHub.
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is both a free-of-charge network for research materials as well as an open source project management tool. It supports researchers in every phase of their project. It supports research teams in organising their collaboration. The entire research project can be made openly accessible, to achieve wide dissemination, but it can also be organised non-publicly. With the help of OSF integrations for workflows and storage, researchers can manage their entire project in one place.
OSF combines researcher tools that many researchers are already using, so that data silos and information gaps can be avoided. In OSF you can also search for papers, data and other research material. A pre-registration of planned studies is also possible. You can find examples for the use of OSF in the field of economics by searching for “economics” in the search field.
Tip: The following worksheets offer helpful information when starting to work with OSF
On OpenICPSR, researchers can find and share social, behavioural and health sciences research data themselves. OpenICPSR is particularly suitable for the storage of replication datasets for researchers who need to publish their raw data in connection with a journal article, so that third parties can reproduce their results.
The Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) can help in the search for published research data and in the selection of a suitable repository. It offers a searchable directory of all the main research data repositories in all scientific disciplines. In order to find the most suitable archive for the publication of one’s own data, the platform offers search and filter functionalities (for example, according to disciplines, countries, data types, identifiers used and user modalities).
The Repository Finder can be used to search for suitable repositories for publishing research data. Only repositories that support the FAIR principles are displayed.
It is a pilot project of the Enabling FAIR Data project led by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in collaboration with DataCite and the Earth, Space and Environment Sciences Community. The service is hosted by DataCite and is based on content from re3data.org.
German research infrastructures can be found via the DFG-funded information portal RIsources (German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG). The research infrastructures listed provide scientists with resources and services in the planning and implementation of research projects. The research infrastructures listed have to meet quality criteria. This includes offering a recognised, established, scientific and technological service, allowing free access and having sustainable management.
RIsources is interesting for researchers, in order to find a repository for the publication of research data or in order to search for research data.
SATIFYD (Self-Assessment Tool to Improve the FAIRness of Your Dataset) is a self-assessment tool for FAIR data. It helps assess the FAIR maturity of one’s research data. By answering twelve questions, one can find out whether one’s research data conforms to FAIR principles and receive tips to improve its FAIRness.
SowiDataNet|datorium is a research data repository for the fields of social sciences and economics. It enables researchers to share quantitative primary and secondary data easily and securely. The research data can be described in detail using a comprehensive metadata diagram. The research data receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) when published. A review process ensures that the data is quality-checked technically and in terms of content. A selection of access classes and Creative Commons licences makes it possible for the person providing the data to define the conditions for gaining access to their data themselves. SowiDataNet|datorium offers convenient search functions for searching for research data.
SowiDataNet|datorium is operated by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. It is based, among other things, on the SowiDataNet project, which was implemented in partnership with the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / DIW Berlin), the Berlin Social Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung / WZB) and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
Zenodo is a free-of-charge, cross-disciplinary repository that is primarily used for scientific datasets but also for science-related software, publications, reports, presentations, videos and similar. The self-archiving of research results there is an easy and free-of-charge way to receive a citable DOI because publications receive these automatically here. ORCID and user statistics are also integrated. The repository service GitHub is integrated into Zenodo in order to make the source texts saved there citable.
The Creative Commons License Chooser supports the selection of a suitable licence to publish publications or other materials.
The License Clearance Tool is a wizard for selecting a suitable licence, for example for data sets or software. It offers two approaches for “clearance”: On the one hand, a clearance based on an existing resource and, on the other hand, a clearance of compatibility with resources based on a target license. You can easily explore the tool as a guest user.
The Public License Selector helps in the selection of a suitable licence for the publication of software and data. You are asked a series of questions, which help to filter the number of hits so you can find the most suitable licence or licences.
alphaXiv offers open research discussion forums directly on top of single arXiv research papers. Each paper is equipped with one discussion forum, where users can comment line-by-line on the paper itself. You get access to a paper’s discussion forum by entering an arXiv URL on alphaXiv. Alternatively, when reading a paper on arXiv, you can type alphaxiv.org instead of arxiv.org in your URL search bar. Then, you will automatically be redirected to the forum.
alphaXiv is also available as a Chrome extension.
Bookmarks can be managed and publications used jointly with BibSonomy. Content is developed by several users together, so that it thereby functions as a social bookmarking system. BibSonomy offers flexible search possibilities and supports the integration of different user communities in which it serves as an online community for literature exchange. Research teams and learning groups are supported by special preparation and retrieval possibilities.
GitHub is a web-based platform and repository for version management of source code of mostly Open Source software projects. Version control is based on Git, the software for distributed version control. In addition, GitHub allows efficient collaboration with third parties thanks to functions such as pull requests, access control, error tracking and task management.
Every change (commit) in a GitHub repository can be referenced via a unique URL. Using the existing Zenodo integration, a release can also be published or archived on Zenodo with the corresponding assignment of a DOI. To specify the desired citation, GitHub supports the Citation File Format (CFF), which was specially developed for software and code. The tool CFF Init can be used to create the required CITATION.cff file.
Tip: A tutorial by US scientists Richard W. Evans and Jason DeBacker offers a good introduction to the use of GitHub and Git.
Similar to GitHub, GitLab offers the management and hosting of Source Code in software development projects and is particularly suitable for Open Source projects. It is based on Git, the system for distributed versioning control. The platform provides tools for all phases of software development, from source code management and code review to project management, automated testing and deployment. Thus, teams can collaborate efficiently, automate their work processes and improve the quality of their software.
The Community Edition is Open Source and allows you to host your own GitLab instance.
GoTriple is a discovery platform aiming to foster networking and collaboration in the humanities and social sciences. It supports searching, finding and networking. Noteworthy is its multilingualism, based on a specially developed multilingual vocabulary. The service gathers publications in currently eleven different languages from 27 disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. These include Economies and Finances as well as Management, with more than 1 million and more than 800,000 publications and more than 8,000 and 5,000 projects, respectively.
A specific search for Open Access publications and/or certain licence models is possible. Integrated visualization tools can be used to visually prepare and evaluate search results. Other features include: a recommender system that suggests related publications, projects, author and user profiles, the tool Pundit, which can be used to add annotations to online publications and share them, and a crowdfunding channel that supports researchers in organizing the financing of their own projects. Publications, fields of work and reserach interests can be stored in a personal profile and other users can be contacted via an integrated chat system. There are also training opportunities, including video tutorials.
Hypothes.is is an open source software project that aims to collect comments to statements that are accessible online in some kind of form. It filters and ranks these comments in order to evaluate the credibility of every statement. It could therefore be described as a kind of Peer Review level for the entire internet, which aims to stimulate open exchange throughout the web. With Hypothes.is you can have discussions, do social reading, organise research as well as personal memos. Collaborative annotating makes the reader more active, visible and social; furthermore, new possibilities for collaboration between students and lecturers are created.
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is both a free-of-charge network for research materials as well as an open source project management tool. It supports researchers in every phase of their project. It supports research teams in organising their collaboration. The entire research project can be made openly accessible, to achieve wide dissemination, but it can also be organised non-publicly. With the help of OSF integrations for workflows and storage, researchers can manage their entire project in one place.
OSF combines researcher tools that many researchers are already using, so that data silos and information gaps can be avoided. In OSF you can also search for papers, data and other research material. A pre-registration of planned studies is also possible. You can find examples for the use of OSF in the field of economics by searching for “economics” in the search field.
Tip: The following worksheets offer helpful information when starting to work with OSF
PaperHive describes itself as a coworking hub that brings researchers together. It enables collaborative reading, references management, Peer Review and proofreading in the community, among other things.
ReproducibiliTea is a grassroots movement that helps researchers set up Open Science journal clubs on site at their university. In the clubs, content and ideas for improving science, reproducibility and the Open Science movement are discussed. The aim is to prevent researchers from feeling isolated when first working with Open Science.
Zotero is a free-of-charge tool for search and reference management, which helps in the finding, organising, citing and sharing of research results. It has a browser extension. The scope of function includes the fact that Zotero is now collaborating with the Retraction Watch database and warns you when you quote something that has been retracted. Furthermore, the detection of full texts from citations has been supplemented by Unpaywall.
A Tutorial offered by LMU Open Science Center introduces Zotero focusing on integrating it with Quarto und RStudio.
Audacity is a free, open-source audio software for multi-track recordings and for editing audio files. It is available for Linux, macOS and Windows and other operating systems.
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is one of the largest search machines in the world for content from Open Access repositories. BASE includes over 270 million documents of over 8,000 data suppliers and can be used for searching for and in repositories. The full texts are freely accessible in Open Access in approx. 60% of the indexed documents.
You can also search BASE specifically for Open Educational Resources. There are various options for this.
BCcampus OpenEd is a collection of textbooks for higher education as Open Educational Resources (OER). Its content can therefore be read and downloaded free of charge. Most content is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence so that it can be adapted and shared. The prerequisite for this is that the authorship is named, the CC licence is linked and it is stated whether changes have been made. The platform also offers instructions on the topics “Create Open Textbooks” and “Use Open Textbooks and other OER”.
Bookdown is an open-source R package that allows writing books, long articles and reports using R Markdown. It supports a variety of programming languages, as well as graphics and interactive applications. The user’s own content can be exported as PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word, among other formats. For the creation of open teaching materials, especially textbooks, it is a good idea to use it if you are familiar with R and Markdown. A guide to Bookdown is provided in the book “Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown“.
CORE (Curriculum Open Access Resources in Economics) contains free textbooks such as “The Economy” and other teaching materials for a new way of teaching economics. This includes lecture materials, illustrations and other resources for lecturers and students. Registration is required to use most of the content.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) contains over 40,000 scholarly OA books. They have undergone peer review. A detailed search can be used to narrow down the results.
DOAB also contains textbooks that can be found in a search. The extent to which licensing permits processing as Open Educational Resources (OER) must be checked in each individual case.
EconBiz offers the possibility of searching for relevant economics publications. Thanks to the filter option, the search can be limited to content that is readable free-of-charge by setting a tick next to “only free full texts”.
With EconBiz you can also find open access resources for your teaching. Whether these are Open Educational Resources with corresponding open licences, you must check for the respective resource in each individual case. If you would like assistance with your search, you can find help on EconBiz here.
EconBiz contains articles from specialist journals, working papers, books and book essays, including the full texts of RePEc and EconStor as well as from ECONIS (catalogue of the ZBW), BASE and Online Contents Economic Sciences (OLC).
Four pro tips for searching open access literature and (open) resources for teaching with EconBiz can be found in this blog post.
GIMP is an open-source image editing programme and thus a counterpart to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You can use GIMP to create and edit photos and digital graphics. It can be installed under Linux, macOS and Windows.
GitBook allows you to create books on the GitHub platform in Markdown, integrating content from the internet. As it was originally created for technical documentation, it does not include as many functionalities as other tools for Open Educational Resources (OER).
Using GitBook to create open textbooks is particularly useful if you are familiar with GitHub and want to apply its functionalities, such as versioning and collaboration, to your book creation.
Glitch is a code editor and an open remix platform for remixing and publishing web applications, such as interactive exercises. You can use it to remix web applications. It does not require extensive coding knowledge.
With H5P you can design interactive elements and exercises for online educational materials via the browser, for instance work/questionnaires or a quiz. You can later integrate these into your own website or online course, for example. There are also plugins for integration into moodle, WordPress or Drupal. You can download existing H5P educational materials, then insert, and edit them in your own H5P plugin. The developers have integrated dialogues that help to select free licences and create associated licence notes semi-automatically.
Jupyter is a very new open source platform that is in the process of becoming the standard platform for the exchange of research results. It supports interactive research data evaluations and scientific calculations with all programming languages through the development of open source software and open standards.
Project Jupyter is a non-for-profit organisation that was founded to develop “open source software, open standards and services for interactive working with dozens of programming languages”. In this project, the products Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab have been developed, among others. Jupyter is already being touted as an alternative to Microsoft Excel, because it offers a variety of advantages compared to the classic table calculation. These advantages include lower susceptibility to errors, reusability as well as better internal documentation.
Jupyter Notebook is an open source Web application with which you can generate and exchange documents that contain live code, equations, visualisations and documentation. JupyterLab is a Web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter Notebooks, code and data. It offers the elements of the Jupyter Notebook in a flexible user interface. JupyterLab can be configured flexibly, according to your own needs and work processes.
Tips:
- Example: QuantEcon Notes is a public repository that hosts Jupyter Notebooks covering all fields of economics and econometrics. The aim is to make communication between economists and the reproducibility of research easier. It calls for the submission of notebooks that include either original material or replications of existing studies in open and reproducible ways. Peer Review takes place in the form of upvotes and downvotes.
- Background information: Economics with Jupyter Notebooks
- The economist Jonathan Conning and the learning platform Dataquest offer general tutorials on the use of Jupyter Notebooks.
LiaScript is a Markdown-based project that allows you to create interactive open and interoperable educational content with little or no programming knowledge. For this purpose, LiaScript extends Markdown with numerous possibilities such as multimedia, quizzes, animations and interactive programming. The materials created can be exported in various formats and also imported into different learning management systems. They can also be shared as Markdown documents, for example in a Git repository, in a form that can be read and edited by anyone, so that they can be easily re-used. Instructions for LiaScript are available, for example, on the company’s own YouTube channel and on Twillo.
LibreOffice has established itself as a free and open-source alternative to Microsoft’s Office package. Like many open source projects, the project is financed to a considerable extent by voluntary donations from satisfied users.
Maryland Open Source Textbook Commons (MOST) is a directory of open textbooks. Although it targets researchers in Maryland, it is also usable outside. The collaborative online directory aims to promote the sharing and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) and therefore also offers tools for creating OER.
MOM searches 22 sources of Open Educational Resources (OER) simultaneously in real time, including OASIS and OpenStax. If the “Deeper search” box is activated, older materials that are public domain links to new glossary entries because their copyright has expired are also searched.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated collection of free and online learning and support materials subject to Open Peer Review, as well as content creation tools. One focus is on textbooks. But assignments, presentations and complete courses can also be found. The resources are available under various licences. Thanks to comprehensive descriptions of the almost 100,000 resources listed, extensive search and browsing options are possible. In addition to the search in MERLOT itself, there is also the option of a meta-search in other sources. MERLOT members are organised in subject communities, such as the MERLOT Business Community.
For materials from business studies and economics, for example, you can use filters in the browsing in “Business“. You can also filter your search by material type, such as Case Study, Online Course or Open (Access) Textbook, or by Creative Commons licensed materials.
An international community of teachers, learners and researchers backs MERLOT.
On the MIT OpenCourseWare platform, MIT makes teaching materials available for free use, including videos of lectures and seminars (many, however, under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence), slide sets, literature lists and exam papers. In total, materials from over 2,500 MIT courses are freely published online at MIT OpenCourseWare. The materials are available under various licences. The areas of MIT OpenCourseWare that are of particular interest to business researchers include:
- MIT OpenCourseware Online Textbooks lists all online textbooks from MIT OpenCourseWare. Some of these textbooks are openly licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books or courseware thoroughly created to serve as an alternative to traditional textbooks.
- MIT OpenCourseware: Economics Courses lists economics courses.
- MIT OpenCourseware: Sloan School of Management Courses
- MIT OpenCourseware: Sloan School of Management: Audio/Video Lectures
OER Commons offers an extensive collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) that can be sorted by topics, educational areas, terms of use or media formats, among other things. Searching and browsing are possible in the more than 50,000 OER. These include the entry points Economics and Business & Communication. OER Commons also includes a curated collection of textbooks and other resources from economics, such as in the Economics Textbooks and Full Courses collection.
In addition, OER Commons offers Open Author, a tool to create OER yourself, including an accessibility checker, which checks whether the resources created are accessible to people with disabilities.
OERhörnchen allows you to search for OER licensed under Creative Commons with a focus on German-language content. The OERhörnchen is a specially configured Google search that searches OER offerings such as segu, Serlo, ZUM and several others for entered terms.
The OERhörnchen also offers two services to support teachers in sharing OER:
- Bildungsteiler (share education) (German) by OERhörnchen: It helps to create a Creative Commons licence notice when you want to share an OER of your own.
- The URL check (German) from the OERhörnchen checks whether machine-readable licence information is stored on the website with the URL entered. This allows you to check whether your own educational resource fulfils this requirement for an OER.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. It promotes the transition to Open Access for scientific books. To do this it provides open infrastructure services for hosting, depositing, quality assurance, dissemination and digital storage for publishers, libraries and research funding institutions. In partnership with publishers it thereby creates a quality-controlled collection of Open Access books. OAPEN should be regarded in the context of DOAB: Whereas DOAB, as a counterpart to DOAJ, is primarily a directory of Open Access books, OAPEN is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. Both are non-commercial and are financed via grants and donations (see: https://www.doabooks.org/en/librarians/scoss).
OAPEN also contains textbooks as Open Educational Resources (OER). They can be found within the framework of a normal search. The extent to which the licensing permits processing as OER must be checked in each individual case.
OpenShot is a free video editor that runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.
The Open Textbook Library contains openly licensed textbooks. Among the criteria for inclusion is that they must be used in higher education teaching or be associated with a higher education institution.
Textbooks in economics can be found under “Browse Subjects” either under “Business” for business textbooks or “Social Sciences” > “Economics” for economics textbooks. Alternatively, you can also use the search function to search specifically for textbooks on topics such as “Statistics” or “Macroeconomics”. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
OASIS searches more than 440,000 Open Educational Resources (OER), drawn from 114 quality-assured sources and covering a wide variety of forms of OER. These include textbooks, courses and videos from higher education. There are various search and browsing options. These include the entry points for Business, Economics and Finance.
OpenStax contains peer-reviewed textbooks. They are openly licensed and can be used online for free or printed at low cost. The books are created at Rice University with the help of grants from the Gates and Hewlett Foundations. Most of the books have free resources for faculty (available only after verification of faculty affiliation) and resources for students. OpenStax also partners with for-profit education companies to provide additional (paid) resources. The platform is focusing primarily on basic and introductory courses, but is growing rapidly. Textbooks include titles on Principles of Economics, Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics.
With Openverse (formerly CC Search / Creative Commons Search), there is a meta-search engine designed to find CC-licensed images and audio files. Perform a search in Openverse to also find resources that are not available in repositories. Creative Commons also offers the CC Search Browser Extension as a browser plug-in for identifying CC-licensed material.
The Economics Network offers an extensive collection of resources for economists. Not all of them are Open Educational Resources (OER). The licence is indicated for some resources. The network’s materials include Educational Resources for Economists, Teaching Ideas for Economics, Educational Resources: Worksheets and Projects in Economics, The Handbook for Economics Lecturers: Open Educational Resources in Economics and OER on Econometrics.
Twillo is a German portal for Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. You can find open educational materials there and share your own educational materials with others. In addition, Twillo offers, among other things, guidelines and templates for creating your own educational materials. In events, such as a weekly open OER consultation hour, there is direct support for the creation of OER.
Wikiversity is a sister project of Wikipedia for the collaborative creation of Open Educational Resources for higher education courses, for teaching in schools, and in adult education and self-study. It contains, among other things, Economic Classroom Experiments.
Research Assessment and Career Paths
Austria’s research system is evolving to offer more flexible and sustainable career paths for researchers, with national recommendations aligned to the European Research Area. To explore how these changes could shape the future of research careers, listen to our AI-generated podcast for deeper insights and expert perspectives.
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Open Science & Research Data Management Training Courses
This collection of Research Data Management (RDM) courses covers a wide range of essential topics such as data management planning, FAIR principles, Open Science, and practical tools for researchers and institutions, offering diverse learning methods from self-study to blended learning programs. Listen to our AI-generated podcast for deeper insights and expert perspectives on enhancing your RDM practices.
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Certificate Course Data Steward, University of Vienna (Austria), 15 ECTS, continuing education
University Course Data Steward, University of Graz (Austria), 16 ECTS, continuing education
Certificate Course Research Data Management, TH Köln (Germany), 8 ECTS, continuing education
Self-study Course Research Data Management, CSC (Finland), 1 ECTS, general course for everybody
Introduction into Research Data Management, TU Wien (Austria), 3 ECTS, for bachelor and master students
Open Science for Engineers and Researchers, Chalmers (Sweden), 7.5 ECTS, for students at an advanced level
Open Science and Reproducible Research, Karolinska Institute (Sweden), 3 ECTS, for PhD students
Responsible Conduct of Research, SDU (Denmark), 2 ECTS, for PhD students
Open Science MOOC, TU Delft (Netherlands), 6 weeks á 3-4 hours, for PhD students
Research Data Management and Open Science, PoliTO (Italy), 15 hours, for PhD students
Open Science Community Building
These sources explore the benefits and challenges of adopting Open Science practices within the scientific community, highlighting how Open Science Communities serve as key platforms for knowledge sharing and the need for institutional support to ensure its widespread adoption. For more insights, check out our AI-generated podcast.
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Open Science Policies
These documents are essential for institutions looking to create effective Open Science policies, offering clear guidance on promoting transparency, collaboration, Open Access, and aligning with global standards like those from UNESCO and the European Commission. Let’s listen to our AI-generated podcast for deeper insights and expert perspectives.
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Open Science Training Networks
Our curated collection of Open Science training networks brings together a wealth of resources and communities dedicated to advancing Open Science practices. These networks serve as collaborative platforms where researchers, educators, and institutions can share knowledge, tools, and strategies for implementing Open Science in their work. Whether you’re new to Open Science or looking to deepen your understanding, these networks provide valuable opportunities for learning, skill development, and community engagement. Explore how institutional support, shared resources, and peer-to-peer learning are driving the future of scientific research.
EOSC-Pillar: Podcast on Open Science 2022
