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Open Science Workshop Materials of the LMU Open Science Center

Open Science workshop materials created at LMU Munich, available for everyone under a CC-BY license. Look in the README folder for more information.

Open Science: What, Why, and How

Open Science is a collection of actions designed to make scientific processes more transparent and results more accessible. Its goal is to build a more replicable and robust science; it does so using new technologies, altering incentives, and …

open stats lab

A website about open statistic labs with data and activities

Open Stats Lab: Teach Statistics Using Open Data from Psychological Science

Each OSL lab is comprised of three elements: An activity, A data set and A published article. The activities guide students through the reproduction of the results published in the journal Psychological Science. Activities also focus on different …

Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook

This book starts from the premise that there is a lot we can all do to increase the benefits of research. Let’s consider the main limitations of research that is not carried out and shared in an open, transparent, and reproducible way: If papers …

Opinion: Promoting open science

Many scientific fields are facing a reproducibility crisis, revealed where replication fails to reproduce findings from previous work. This irreproducibility leads to the promulgation of inappropriate evidence.

Optimizing Research Payoff

In this article, we present a model for determining how total research payoff depends on researchers’ choices of sample sizes, α levels, and other parameters of the research process. The model can be used to quantify various tradeoffs inherent in the …

ORCC UKRN Primer on Working in Open Research

This is an introductory guide for those working and considering working in the area of open research. It was drafted by members of the Open Research Competencies Coalition. There are many resources available on the topic of open research either aimed …

Our data, ourselves: A framework for using emotion in qualitative analysis

Qualitative training rarely acknowledges the role of emotions in both data collection and analysis. While bracketing emotions is an important part of reflexivity, emotions are both a source of data and a source of ‘work’ (Hochschild, Citation1983). …

Overcoming the Knowledge Barrier in Open Science

Getting started with open science and knowing where to go. This webinar will introduce participants to major practices in open science and then dive into the resources available to learn how to use these in your own work.