Open Research

Authors
Affiliations

Priya Silverstein

University of Coimbra

Max F. Wan

Independent

Flavio Azevedo

Utrecht University

Overview

Welcome to the Open Research course! This course will guide you in making your research more open.

This course is intended for self-paced learning, aimed at academic researchers and scientists in any field and at any stage of their careers. The course is organised into 8 chapters, which you can either complete step-by-step over 8 weeks, or you can focus on specific topics of interest!

Outline
First, you will explore what open research is, why it’s important, and how it can be applied to different disciplines and stages of the research process. You will become familiar with the underlying principles of open research: transparency, integrity, and accessibility. You will consider the actions you need to take to ensure your own research outputs meet all three of these standards.

The decision-making tree below summarises the topics covered in this course.

Open Research Decision Tree

Open science decision tree Preregistration: publishing your plans for a study 2. Open Data 3. Where to Share Data 4. The replication crisis 5. Generalisability 6. Positionality 7. Open access 8. Preprints 9. Privilege in academia 10. The FAIR principles 11. Robustness 12. Big team science 13. Open access repositories 14. Replicability 15. Finding your community 16. Journal publishing models 17. Preprints 18. Open Access

Citation

Cite this book as:

Silverstein, P., Wan, M. F., & Azevedo, F. (2025). Open Research. Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT). https://forrt.org/open-research-course/

Acknowledgment

This course has been adapted from the Open Research course authored by Priya Silverstein. The original course is available on the Open University’s OpenLearn platform.

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