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Coffee Lecture: How Teaching Reproducibility Enhances Students’ Learning Outcomes and Confidence

26. May 2026 Open Science Birte Sindt

Coffee Lecture: How Teaching Reproducibility Enhances Students’ Confidence

Teaching reproducible research methods benefits not only students and lecturers, but also the overall quality of scholarly work. They should therefore be systematically incorporated into the curriculum from the undergraduate level onwards. This argument was put forward by Richard Ball at the sixth “Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education”, where he presented an initiative to integrate reproducibility into teaching in economics, business studies and the social sciences: Project TIER. On April 23, 2026, the sixth event in the series “Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education” took place. Richard Ball, Professor of Economics at Haverford College (USA), used Project TIER (Teaching […]

23. April 2026 Open Science Birte Sindt

What a Mocktail Reveals About Replication: Open Science at the VHB Conference

Replication, data transparency and documentation may sound abstract and like a compulsory exercise to some, but they offer many advantages for research practice. Communicating Open Science therefore means doing more than simply explaining terms. How its practical benefits for one’s own research can still be conveyed at the end of a long conference day was demonstrated by an Open Science Happy Hour at the VHB conference. How can one talk about documentation, traceability and replicability in a way that goes beyond mere exhortation? At the VHB conference – the annual meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research – […]

25. March 2026 Open Science Birte Sindt

Maximizing the Visibility of Publications: An Open Science Checklist

Writing a scientific paper takes significant time and effort, making it all the more important that your work gets seen. Not only by policymakers and the public, but crucially by other researchers: this boosts scientific progress and can also earn you credit from those who truly understand your contribution. In this blog post, you’ll learn six steps you can take to maximize the reach and citations of your publication using open science tools. Most of these steps take less time than you might expect but can significantly increase your reach. Open Science can seem like yet another obligation driven by [...]

23. February 2026 Open Science Birte Sindt

Travel Guide to Open Science: a Peer-to-Peer Publication for Business Studies

Open Science encompasses a wide range of approaches, methods and practices, which can quickly become overwhelming, particularly for those new to the field. The publication ‘Expedition Open Science Land: A Travel Guide for Business Research’ addresses this challenge. Using the metaphor of a journey, it encourages researchers in business studies to take their first steps towards Open Science. The publication ‘Expedition Open Science Land: A Travel Guide for Business Research’ was published in January. The idea for the travel guide came from the authors Marko Sarstedt, Doreen Siegfried (ZBW), Meikel Neumann, Susanne J. Adler, Oliver Genschow and Monika Imschloss during […]

21. January 2026 Open Science osguide

Open Science Events 2026: 10 Tips for Workshops, Online Courses and Conferences

In 2026, there will once again be plenty of opportunities to learn about and discuss Open Science and related topics at various online and offline events. To help you choose, this blog post presents some highlights from our event calendar. As always, the focus is on the use of Open Science in business studies and economics, scientific methods, and the role of AI in a constantly evolving research landscape. Workshops, seminars, conferences, coffee lectures and much more, whether as online events or on-site: in 2026, there will again be many events that offer a great opportunity to refresh and expand […]

10. December 2025 Open Science osguide

Three in One for Open Science: Wharton Credibility Lab’s Toolbox Supports Researchers’ Workflow

Making Open Science irresistibly easy is the Wharton Credibility Lab’s mission. They established AsPredicted, a pre-registration platform, and ResearchBox, a platform for sharing data, code, and materials. In October, they added their newest platform AsCollected, which supports documenting results provenance. Read how the three platforms are integrated and designed to seamlessly support the research process. The Penn Wharton Credibility Lab at the University of Pennsylvania mission is to make open research irresistibly easy to use by providing online platforms that make it simple for authors and for readers. In doing so, it has released its third online platform and relaunched […]

26. November 2025 Open Access, Open Science, Tools osguide

Open Access Tool ShareYourPaper: Free Your own Journal Articles From Paywalls

You have published an article in a journal, but it is not openly accessible since a paywall is preventing many interested colleagues and the general public from reading it? This situation is frustrating for everyone involved. It restricts the transfer of knowledge, and your research does not receive the visibility and citations it deserves. Shareyourpaper.org makes it easy to change this. ShareYourPaper promises greater visibility and 30 per cent more citations. The free, browser-based Open Source service from OA.Works, a non-profit operator of several Open Access tools, is designed to simplify legal self-archiving. ShareYourPaper shows researchers how they can make […]

22. October 2025 Open Educational Resources osguide

Digital Textbooks: CORE Econ is Transforming Economics with Approaches to Real-world Problems

How can teaching be designed with CORE Econ? What are the advantages and disadvantages of switching to CORE Econ? At an event organised by the Community für wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften (A German Community for Information Literacy and Academic Skills in Business and Economics), Prof. Christian Tode and Prof. Anna Göddeke shared their practical experiences and reported on how dealing with real-world topics and data affects student participation and motivation. CORE Econ (Curriculum Open Access Resources in Economics) is an international network founded in 2012 to contribute to the reform of economics education. This was preceded by the 2008 […]

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