Open Data and Materials

 

The Open Research Toolkit

I have been the Data Curation Librarian at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries since 2013. During this time, I have helped hundreds of researchers meet the requirements of research funders and publishers to make their research data openly …

The Open Science Training Handbook

A collection about open science

The Open Science Training Handbook

A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training. High-quality trainings are fundamental when aiming at a …

The PaPOR TRaIL Course: Principles and Practices in Open Research: Teaching, Research, Impact and Learning

PaPOR TRaIL is a freely available online course that was developed with students and research supervisors and funded by a National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education award. Though primarily designed for …

The poor availability of syntaxes of structural equation modeling

The syntax or codes used to fit Structural Equation Models (SEMs) convey valuable information on model specifications and the manner in which SEMs are estimated. We requested SEM syntaxes from a random sample of 229 articles (published in 1998–2013) …

The power of many brains: Catalyzing neuropsychiatric discovery through open neuroimaging data and large-scale collaboration

Recent advances in open neuroimaging data are enhancing our comprehension of neuropsychiatric disorders. By pooling images from various cohorts, statistical power has increased, enabling the detection of subtle abnormalities and robust associations, …

The societal impact of Open Science–a scoping review

Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratise research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, …

The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review

Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, …

The transparency of quantitative empirical legal research published in highly ranked law journals (2018–2020): an observational study

Background: Scientists are increasingly concerned with making their work easy to verify and build upon. Associated practices include sharing data, materials, and analytic scripts, and preregistering protocols. This shift towards increased …

The Value of Openness in Open Science

Open science is good for both epistemic and social reasons, but in nonobvious ways, it can have detrimental epistemic side effects. Drawing on case studies and the social epistemology of science, I show how practices intended to increase …