Primers
Our primer series is designed to introduce a broad audience to important topics in open and reproducible scholarshipOpen research primers
Each primer includes an overview of the topic in the introductory “What?” section, reasons for undertaking these practices in the “Why?” section, followed by a longer “How?” section that provides guidance on how to do that open research behaviour practically.
Throughout the primers, there are embedded explanatory weblinks, and at the end of each is a collated list of links to useful further resources.
The primers are licensed under Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0. You can link to, quote, share, and adapt the primers freely.
Checklist for an Open Research Action Plan
Promote and embed cultural change within a research organisation.
Data sharing
Make research data available to ensure transparency and a reliable scientific record.
Open access
Universal open and barrier-free access to research benefits all knowledge users.
Open code & software
Encourage collaboration between code users, developers and researchers.
Open research awards
Run a competition to recognise and reward researchers who have used open practices.
Preprints
Upload, describe and disseminate your scholarly article prior to peer review.
Pre-registration & Registered Reports
Help reduce questionable research practices, and prevent selective reporting.
Rights retention
Advice for authors on their copyright licences
Trusted research
Trusted Research is official Government guidance for the UK research sector.
Open research across disciplines
Although a lot of open research practices have commonly been discussed under the term “open science”, open research applies to all disciplines. If the concept of open research is new to you, it might be difficult for you to determine how you can apply open research practices to your research. The aim of this document is to provide resources and examples of open research practices that are relevant to your discipline.
This longer document (58 pages) lists case studies of open research per discipline, and resources per discipline (organised as: general, open methods, open data, open output and open education).
Licensed under Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0. You can link to, quote, share and adapt the document freely.
Open research across disciplines
How open research is being used in your field.
These documents were crowd-authored by members of the UKRN and their university communities. The primer series will be updated and extended to include topics from the whole research cycle.
To let us know about a change or potential update, typo, or to request a primer on a particular topic, please get in touch.