Implementing Open Science in Daily Practices
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This presentation was given as part of a workshop "Aurora Capacity Building PhD Academy on Publishing Skills and Science Communication", which took place at VU Amsterdam from October 6–10, 2025, with a focus on Aurora associate partner universities, as well as representatives from full partner universities.
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OPEN SCIENCE DR SANDER BOSCH – [email protected]
WHAT IS OPEN SCIENCE? “Open Science aims to omake scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone oincrease scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society oopen the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community” Quality and integrity Collective benefit Diversity, equity, inclusion https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation
QUALITY & INTEGRITY Fabrication/ Fraud/ Plagiarism: ~2% Sloppy science: ~34% Poor replicability Selective reporting https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005738 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718001873
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THE SCOPE (Open Access) Publications (FAIR) Data & Software (Open) Methods (Open) Analysis (Open) Evaluation (Open) Hardware Valorisation Science Communication Citizen Science (Open) Educational Resources (Open) Educational Formats (Open) Pedagogy FAIR & RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & IMPACT FAIR & OPEN EDUCATION
TOWARDS OPEN SCIENCE https://vu.nl/openscience [email protected]
WHAT DO WE DO? https://rdm.vu.nl/ https://osf.io/institutions/vua/ https://portal.yoda.vu.nl/ https://www.kenniscloud.nl/ https://edusources.nl/ https://monitor.openaire.eu/ https://carpentries.org/ https://studentios.org/ https://barcelona-declaration.org/ https://osc-international.com/osc-amsterdam/ https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/vu-open-science-policies
WHAT CAN YOU DO? 1. Plan your research 2. Find help! 3. Preregister your hypothesis 4. Make yourself and your work findable 5. Name your research files well 6. Use version control 7. Share your work early 8. Publish Open Access 9. Document contributions 10. License your work 11. Promote Open Peer Review 12. Engage with society 13. Become involved 14. Play and learn!
PLAN YOUR RESEARCH Data Management Plan (DMP) - How will you manage your research data during and after your research? As open as possible, as closed as necessary
SHARE YOUR WORK EARLY You can find a list of preprint servers here
PUBLISH OPEN ACCESS https://libguides.mines.edu/OA
DOCUMENT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS CRediT taxonomy https://credit.niso.org/
LICENSE YOUR WORK License selector for publications, data, software: https://ufal.github.io/publiclicense-selector/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Creative_Commons_Licenses.png
PROMOTE OPEN PEER REVIEW https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/learning/openpeer-review/#/id/5a17e150c2af651d1e3b1bce
ENGAGE WITH SOCIETY https://osf.io/xpr2n/wiki/home/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/26269051?seq=19 https://citizenscience.nl/ Setting research questions Developing methods and materials Collecting or producing data Analysing data Sharing results co-created contributory collaborative
BECOME INVOLVED https://studentios.org/ https://reproducibilitea.org/ https://riotscience.co.uk/
OPEN SCIENCE COMMUNITIES “bottom-up learning communities of researchers and students for learning and sharing about Open Science” Collaboration with the International Network of Open Science Communities (INOSC) – 12-week incubator programme for new communities https://osc-international.com/open-science-community-the-netherlands/ https://osc-international.com/start-your-own-osc/
PLAY AND LEARN! https://ghostcollective.github.io/
Having a little cry on the toilet Confidently ignoring all inquiries of groups trying to replicate my research Financing the CEO of Elsevier’s fourth boat Copy-pasting all your respondents’ sensitive data into chatGPT to make a pretty boxplot There is no competition in science, there is just ____ 12 34