Open science is the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society, amateur or professional. It encompasses practices such as publishing open research, campaigning for open access, encouraging scientists to practice open notebook science, and generally making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge.
A curated list of information, resources and tools about Open Science including Open Access, Open Data, Open Research Data and more 🔬 💻. Refer to the Open Definition about what openness means.
Entries marked with ✨ are especially recommended by the author. Resources in other languages than English are marked with the corresponding flag 🇩🇪.
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- The Open Definition - Defining what openness is. ✨
- Open Science Manifesto
- Wikipedia article Open Science
- Wikipedia article Open Access
- FOSTER - An e-learning platform featuring material over a wide range of topics including RDM, Open Access & Open Data. Funded by the European Commission as part of Horizon 2020. ✨
- Research Data Management - E-learning platform about research data management 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 ✨
- forschungsdaten.info - The growing information platform for everything RDM in Germany. 🇩🇪
- Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Over 3 mio. articles from over 11 000 journals.
- Registry of Research Data Repositories - By offering detailed information on more than 2,000 research data repositories, Re3data has become the most comprehensive source of reference for research data infrastructures globally.
- B2Find (EOSC) - Search over 690,000 datasets from European research as well as external datasets.
- Open Access Days - Annually meeting, organized by German, Swiss and Austrian universities and libraries. Features keynotes & workshops mostly in German.
- Horizon 2020 - Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).
- Open Knowledge Foundation - An independent organization pushing open access to knowledge in all areas of life
- DINI - non-profit association 🇩🇪
- Zenodo - Awesome repository for all kinds of Open Research including datasets up to 50GB and free DOIs. Funded by the CERN and European Commission.✨
- Data Dryad - Nonprofit, curated repository for publications and accompanying research data. Upload data sets up to 20GB free of charge and get free DOIs. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Commission and the Center for Open Science.
- Open Science Framework - Open Access to research project over the entire research life cycle. Uses third-party storage such as Dropbox or Github as well as internal storage. Upload data sets up to 5GB (internal storage) and assign free DOIs. Funded by the Center for Open Science.
- Data.gov - The Open Data portal of the United States. ✨
- World Bank Open Data - Global development data.
- GenBank - An annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
- UniProt - Collection of protein sequences and their annotations.
- SIMBAD - Astronomical Database.
- CiteAb - An antibody search engine. ICLAD - The International Cell Line Authentication Committee.
- SEEK - A systems biology data and model management platform. Datastro.eu- An open data portal with data about astronomy.
- A short lecture on Open Licensing
- Creative Commons - Licenses for all kind of open content including publications, educational resources and research data. Not for computer code. ✨
- Choose an open source license - Pick a suitable license for your code ✨
- oaDOI - Find open-access versions of papers.
- Recommended Tools by the RDA - The Research Data Alliance lists a number of tools similar to this overview.
- Awesome Research List on Github - An overview of useful tools for (open) research in a similar fashion to this list.
- Overleaf - Create papers in LaTeX with colleagues online. ✨
- European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - Newly launched portal of the European Open Science Cloud with free-of-charge access to various services. Services are accessible via an institutional login or various login provides (ORCID, Github, etc.).
- B2Drop -
- There is a separate awesome list specifically about Citizen Science: Citizen Science List
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