Moving forward in your open research journey
Openness is not 'all or nothing' and beginning by implementing just one open research practice is a great start.
Many researchers have already adopted some open science practices and the pace at which researchers move towards open practices may vary, particularly between disciplines.
Fully open research is a long-term goal, not a switch we should expect overnight. However, there a number of practices that researchers can adopt right now that can advance the overall open science cause while simultaneously benefitting the individual researcher.
What can you start to do today?
Perhaps the best advice is to first consider what it is you would like to do: what is the open research practice you’d like to implement? Then explore which tools/platforms are available, which ones the people in your community use, and why.
Kramer and Bosman (2018) outlined a series of ways through which a researcher's workflow can be made more open, showing that open research practices can be considered from the very beginning of your research project. How you plan to implement open research practices at each stage of your research will depend on the type of research e.g. whether it is quantitative or qualitative, exploratory or confirmatory in nature.
In this section you will find information on a number of key open practices:
- Working on collaborative platforms
- Pre-registering your study and analysis plan
- Using open research software and open source
- Making your research data open
- Publishing open access
- Using scholarly identifiers
- PhD Researchers: depositing and sharing your thesis
In this Section
Working on Collaborative Platforms
View more information on Working on Collaborative Platforms.
Preregistration
View more information on Pre-registration and Registered Reports.
Open Research Software
View more information on Open Research Software and Open Source.
Make your research data open
View more information on Make your research data open.
Publish Open Access
View more information on Publish Open Access.
Use Scholarly Identifiers: ORCID, DOI
View more information on Use Scholarly Identifiers: ORCID, DOI.
Depositing and Sharing your thesis
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