Boost your research success in business studies and economics
The ZBW Open Economics Guide shows you how to use Open Science methods and tools – such as Open Access and Open Data – to make your research more efficient and visible!
Introduction to Open Access
Making research visible.
Introduction to Open Data
Making research verifiable.
Introduction to Open Code
Making research transparent.
Introduction to OER
Making teaching better.
This is how Open Science works in research practice!
Free Open Science Tools
A whole range of free and useful Open Science tools are available to support you in making your research even more efficient. Take a look at our tool catalogue!
New Blog Posts
Stay up to date with the latest tips and tutorials on Open Science.
Check and Improve Data Quality: With the Open Data Editor no Programming Knowledge is needed
Check data in tables, find errors and publish data seamlessly in...
Open Science in Practice
Researchers' inside reports from their everyday life.
Open Science Events
Conferences, seminars, webinars, online panels and more!
EconBiz seminars series
Got an assignment coming up and don't know how to start? Our online seminar series (in English) teaches you essential research and writing skills in four 30-minute sessions.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 11:00-11:30 (CEST): Choosing a topic
Choose an interesting and feasible topic for your assignment. - Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 11:00-11:30 (CEST): Searching literature
Search efficiently for scientific literature and information. - Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 11:00-11:30 (CEST): Assessing publication quality
Identify quality publications that you can cite. - Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 11:00-11:30 (CEST): Avoiding plagiarism
Avoid unintentional plagiarism.
The online seminars take place on Zoom. We will send you an e-mail with the access link and further information before the seminar starts.
OA 101 Round 2: Visibility & Impact, Problematizing “Predatory” Publishing, and Authors Rights
SPARC is excited to announce a second round of our Open Access 101 series, building on the significant response from the community to the first series hosted last year. These upcoming OA 101 sessions will deepen the conversation around key topics related to open access, including visibility and impact, problematizing “predatory” publishing, and authors rights. See full details below.
We are grateful to once again collaborate closely with the team behind the Scholarly Communications Notebook (Josh Bolick, Maria Bonn, and Will Cross) to organize these sessions, and the events in this second series will feature expert speakers to guide the discussion around each topic.
Recordings of each session will be made available afterward. These sessions are intended to provide lightweight professional development for librarians whose work intersects with open access or may do so in the future.
These sessions are open to anyone working in libraries, and participants can register for just those sessions that are of interest. SPARC membership is NOT required, and our goal in this series is to support the wider community, particularly those at institutions with fewer resources to support OA-related work.
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