Open Data and Materials

 

Open Science Seminar: How to do credible research with a high informational value (and how not to do it)

Students have an overview about the "historical" developments and debates of the replication movement in the last years, understand questionable research practices (QRPs) and publication bias and how their prevalence distorts the scientific …

Open science teaching

Syllabi and other materials from seminars I've taught on open science

Open Science Training Handbook

Github Repository for the Open Science Training Handbook

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, the replication crisis, and environmental public health

Concerns about a crisis of mass irreplicability across scientific fields (“the replication crisis”) have stimulated a movement for open science, encouraging or even requiring researchers to publish their raw data and analysis code. Recently, a rule …

Open science: many hands make light work

Open science has been highlighted as one of the priorities of the Dutch presidency of the European Union in 2016. Matthew Dovey discusses the motivations behind the open science movement and why initiatives to support it are more important than ever. …

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-Source Exploitation - David Whitney - NDC London 2024

In this session we'll do a deep dive into the history of open-source software, it's ethical issues in the modern, hyper-capitalised development landscape, and how we can survive, as humans in a world where the hobbyist computer clubs of the early …

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 …

Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Open Licensing in Europe

This report investigates the current landscape of non-legislative policy practices affecting researchers and authors in the authors' rights and licensing domain. It is an outcome of research conducted by Project Retain led by SPARC Europe, as part of …