Open Research Comic

Learn More about Open Research

Get Involved

One of the best ways to better understand and support open research practices is by connecting and getting involved! At Newcastle University, we offer a ReproducibiliTea Journal club as well as UKRN Newcastle, a local network of the United Kingdom Reproducibility Network. Anyone is welcome to join these groups.

We also have events and workshops throughout the year. These opportunities can be found on the Open Research site and in Elements.

Open Research Resources and References

There are many resources available to understand open research and scholarship. Here are a few the authors have used, but there are many more great resources and publications on open research. Please see the for more information and resources!

• Resources on copyright, open research & access, and licensing at Creative Commons
  • https://creativecommons.org/
• An Open Research MOOC with many links arranged by topic for more resources
  • https://opensciencemooc.eu/
• Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) is great for those who want to teach about open research
  
  • https://forrt.org/
• Community driven hub on data science with open research information
  • https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/index.html
• A short video introduction to open access
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY&ab_channel=PiledHigherandDeeper%28PHDComics%29
• The Centre for Open science has many resources and tutorials, they run OSF!
  
  • https://www.cos.io/
• Who benefits from open access as referenced in page 3
  
  • Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/
• Potential open research benefits also referenced on page 3
  
  • Wang, X., Mao, W., Xu, S., Zhang, C. (2014) Usage history of scientific literature: Nature metrics and metrics of Nature publications. Scientometrics 98, 1923–1933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1167-5
• An overview of accessibility challenges when doing open research
  
  • https://www.americanscientist.org/article/open-science-isnt-always-open-to-all-scientists
• A paper on challenges with open access referenced in page 4
  
  • https://doi-org.libproxy.ncl.ac.uk/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115592
• An article on open research in the humanities
  
  • https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/71/5/827/6372230
• On doing open science as an early career researcher
  
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6513108/
• Got big datasets? Check out this article for ideas on how to share it
  
  • https://researchdata.springernature.com/posts/help-my-data-are-too-large-to-share