Outline of sections

• Infrastructure

  • Open Licensing

    • Why are open licences relevant?

    • What are licences, anyway?

    • How are traditional licences used?

    • What’s special about open licences?

    • Open licences impose restrictions on use

    • You can get help choosing a suitable licence!

    • Links

    • References

  • Open Platforms: Toolboxes for Open Research

    • To begin: Platforms outside of research

    • Further aspects of “openness” in open platforms

    • Open Platforms for open research

    • The openness of open platforms make them particularly useful for eliciting contributions

    • Example: OSF support for a large-scale research collaboration

    • Example: Custom platform design to create a novel research site

    • Co-authoring and other forms of collaboration: new directions in open platforms

    • Links

    • References

  • Interoperability

    • What is interoperability?

    • How does interoperability relate to open research?

    • When is attention to interoperation needed in open research?

    • Interoperation makes cross-setting co-working possible

    • Choosing and designing suitable tools

    • Interoperability can be useful even when it’s not universal

    • Creating interoperability also doesn’t mean removing all friction

    • Link

    • References

  • Repositories and Persistent Research Identifiers

    • What is a repository?

    • How are repositories related to open research?

    • Alternatives when selecting a repository

    • Persistent Research Identifiers

    • Working with DOIs and persistent identifiers

    • Links

    • Reference

• Methods

  • Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing

    • Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science are worth introducing together

    • These are simple forms of “participatory research”

    • Benefits: Why might you want to use crowdsourcing and citizen science methods?

    • An early example

    • Participant motivation

    • A more contemporary example

    • Risks and risk management strategies

    • Citizen science as a route to engagement

    • Links

    • References

  • Participatory Research

    • Expanding what it means to “participate” in research

    • Opening up the research process

    • Logic of participation

    • Benefits of participation

    • Requirements around Responsible Research and Innovation

    • Links

    • References

  • Open peer review

    • What is open peer review?

    • Advantages of open peer review

    • Limitations of open peer review

    • Related practices

    • Open peer review within open research ecosystems

    • You can try it for yourself.

    • Links

    • References

  • Open Protocols

    • What are open protocols?

    • The difference between method and documentary

    • Associated practices of pre-registration and registered reports

    • Why do this?

    • Working with open methods

    • Link

    • References

• Communities

  • Research Diversity

    • What is research diversity?

    • Why does research diversity matter?

    • Diversity of research participants

    • Diversity of research contributors

    • Who is involved in open research?

    • Open Access and research diversity implications

    • Links

    • References

  • Open Communities: Working together for research impact

    • Defining open communities

    • “The societal impact of open science”

    • ‘Intelligent openness’ and ‘public engagement’ for impact

    • “Rural Self Help”: An anecdote from Sri Lankan activist A T Ariyaratne

    • Communities of practice as places to build capacity

    • Example 1: A Developing Community of Practice around open research training

    • Example 2: Science Together

    • Example 3: “People-driven solutions”

    • Get good at facilitation

    • Get involved

    • Links to examples from the video

    • Additional links

    • References

• Knowledge

  • Open Educational Resources

    • OERs and open reseacrh

    • You’re looking at an example

    • OER creation workflow

    • So what…? Reuse and remixing

    • Barriers and incentives for using OER

    • Students’ perspective

    • Co-creating and extending OERs: next steps for this project

    • References

  • Open Software

    • What is open software?

    • Who writes open source software?

    • Why do people contribute to open source software?

    • (Open) Research software

    • How to create open research software

    • Building contributor communities

    • Links

    • References

  • Open Code: Notebooks &c.

    • Computational epistemologies

    • Broader openness makes open code even better

    • Notebook science as an example

    • New directions in open code

    • Reproducible code, analogues, and extensions

    • Putting it all together

    • Closing note

    • Reference

  • Open Data

    • Why open data?

    • When is open data not a great idea?

    • Why not just ‘scrape’ data that’s publicly available on the web?

    • History of Open Data

    • The Future of Open Data

    • Rather than producing open data, start by using some

    • Guidance on how to prepare material for deposit

    • What kind of open data? Depending on the expected use, more ‘stars’ might be better.

    • Next steps

    • Link

  • Open Publications and Transformative Publishing Agreements

    • A brief reminder about preprints.

    • Different types of Open Access publications

    • What is the status of these different types of OA?

    • Transformative publishing agreements

    • What about Green OA and “Rights Retention”?

    • If Diamond OA is so widespread, why isn’t it the norm on a per-article basis?

    • Problems for research diversity

    • Other problems

    • So what should I do as a researcher?

    • Are there any other practical things to do?

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