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23. April 2025 Open Data osguide

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 just a few steps? The Open Data Editor makes it possible. The Open Source tool requires no programming experience and is accompanied by a free course. How the Open Data Editor works. The Open Data Editor is a free no-code desktop application from the Open Knowledge Foundation. It makes working with data easier, especially for people without a technical background. It can be used to examine tables, detect errors in tables and easily upload data to GitHub, Zenodo and CKAN portals. The application focuses on helping users to find […]

25. March 2025 Open Science osguide

Teaching what we practice – Climbing the Open Science Mountain

Teaching what we practice means emphasising the importance of integrating Open Science principles into academic teaching. The relevance of these practices lies in fostering a learning environment that mirrors the evolving landscape of scientific research. With CLIMB Dr Meikel Soliman has developed a structured five-step approach for teaching how to climb the Open Science Mountain. CLIMB is a five-step approach for integrating Open Science into higher education. Developed by Dr Meikel Soliman while teaching research-oriented seminars in Psychology and Economics, CLIMB helps students navigate the research process with transparency and rigor. His interactive workbook, Doing Research – A Fun Workbook [...]

11. February 2025 Open Access, Open Science osguide

Open Science Search Engine: Matilda Opens Citations and References

Named after the Matilda effect, an Open Science search engine recently added to the Open Economics Guide’s tools catalogue helps researchers to find research works as well as the respective citations and metadata and to stay up to date. Here is a short summary and presentation of what Matilda has to offer. Matilda is an open academic search engine and a bibliographic and bibliometric platform for Open Science. It is named after the Matilda effect which describes downplaying or overlooking the scientific contributions and achievements of women. Aiming to make references and citation data as usable as Open Access scholarly […]

15. January 2025 Open Science osguide

Open Science Events 2025: 10 Tips for Coffee Lectures, Conferences and Unconferences

Would you like to learn new things and network around Open Science? We present some highlights of online and offline events in 2025 from the Open Economics Guide’s calendar of events. Online events such as Coffee Lectures as well as on-site events such as conferences or unconferences offer a good opportunity to refresh your knowledge, familiarise yourself with previously unknown areas of Open Science and make new contacts. There are many opportunities for this in 2025. Below you will find a small selection of upcoming events aimed at both Open Science beginners and experienced researchers. You can find more events […]

3. December 2024 Open Access osguide

Publishing Well in Open Access: The Open Policy Finder Offers Guidance

Which journal should I publish in? And what options do different journals offer with regard to Open Access? The Open Policy Finder provides an overview of these questions, helping you to publish in Open Access with full knowledge of the facts. The Open Policy Finder was published by the British Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) at the beginning of November 2024. The new platform combines the functionalities of previous services such as Sherpa Romeo and Sherpa Juliet in a new design and provides a practical overview of the policies of almost all journal publishers, for example with regard to parallel […]

12. November 2024 Open Science osguide

Coffee Lecture: An Internship for Reproducibility?

As part of an internship, students check the computational reproducibility of articles before they appear, and in doing so gain practical experience in handling data and code. Lars Vilhuber presented this programme at the first ‘Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education’ and discussed the (rhetorical) question: ‘Can or should this be expanded?’ On 15 October 2024, the new ZBW event series ‘Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education’ started with a lecture by Lars Vilhuber, a member of the faculty of the Department of Economics at Cornell University and Data Editor of the American Economic Association (AEA). He spoke about the […]

14. October 2024 Open Science osguide

Openness is Changing: Open Science Gains in Importance in Business Studies and Economics

The use of Open Science is becoming increasingly important in business studies and economics, but still faces numerous hurdles. This is shown in a study by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, just published in October 2024. The results provide insights into the acceptance, application and obstacles of Open Science practices among business studies and economics researchers at German universities and research institutions. According to the study, which is based on a survey of 314 participants, more and more researchers in business studies and economics are recognising the added value of Open Science for the transparency and reproducibility […]

3. September 2024 Open Science osguide

Licence Open Science Correctly: Helpful Online Tools

What makes Open Science Open Science? The correct licensing of open science content is a decisive factor. It guarantees legally compliant re-usability. But how do we know which licence is the right one? Fortunately, there are a few online tools that can help and guide you step by step through the selection process. Here are three tools that will help you select suitable licences for open publications, datasets, software and other material: Creative Commons License Chooser If it is clear that a Creative Commons licence is to be used, the Creative Commons License Chooser may be helpful. The tool supports […]

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