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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 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 […]

24. September 2025 Open Access osguide

Optimising Literature Search: Reap the Benefits of Different Search Tools

Understanding the differences between the various types of search tools helps you find literature more effectively and more efficiently. That way you can also reap the benefits of Open Science in a targeted manner. For this purpose, we are presenting some common search tools for business studies and economics as well as the differences between them. Publications contained in traditional or commercial databases are often hidden behind paywalls. However, Open Access expands access to research publications, and openly accessible working papers accelerate the availability of new research results. Reap these benefits by integrating search tools into your search strategy that […]

26. August 2025 Open Data osguide

Sharing Research Data More Effectively: the FAIR Assessment Tool

The FAIR Assessment Tool is a new tool that has recently been introduced to help assess and improve the FAIRness of published data. This allows you to expand your important know-how for publishing data sets in order to benefit from the advantages of FAIR data, such as greater visibility and impact for your research. The FAIR Assessment Tool helps you make your research data FAIR and publish it. FAIR refers to the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability of a dataset. Designing your research data management in accordance with the FAIR principles can, among other things, increase the visibility and impact […]

29. July 2025 Open Code osguide

Open Source: the key to More Open Science in Economics and Business Studies

Open Source software plays an important role in research. However, there is still room for improvement in its use in economics and business studies, as Prof. Dr Hans-Martin von Gaudecker noted during a Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education. In his presentation, he outlined practical approaches and initiatives for promoting Open Source in economics and business studies. At the end of June, the fourth edition of the “Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education” series took place. The guest speaker was Prof. Dr Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn and an active member of the […]

25. June 2025 Open Science osguide

Gollum Effect Harms Research: Open Science is Part of the Solution

Possessive and territorial behaviours among researchers, which hinder collaboration and the free flow of information and thus scientific progress, are referred to as the Gollum effect. Such behaviour includes, for example, a reluctance to share data, methods, research topics or even research areas. A new study looked at the Gollum effect and also investigated what could help to mitigate it. Collaboration and knowledge sharing are generally considered to be cornerstones of scientific progress. The recently published study ‘Systemic territoriality in academia: The Gollum effect’s impact on scientific research and careers’ addresses an important obstacle to collaboration and thus to scientific […]

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