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10. July 2024 Open Code osguide

New in the Open Economics Guide: Promoting Reproducibility With Open Code

Openly accessible programming code can make your research work easier. It ensures that you receive appropriate recognition for your work and generally improves the reproducibility of research because it allows to understand and review the work of other researchers. A new section has now been added to the ZBW’s Open Economics Guide, which provides practical tips to help you get started with Open Code. Here you can find out how you can go about creating and publishing Open Code yourself or how you can easily reuse the Open Code of others. Open Code makes source code written for research such […]

4. June 2024 Open Data osguide

Open data myths: What’s the Truth? (+ Handout)

There are many reservations about the opening of research data. To what extent are they true? A new handout sheds light on the eight most common open data myths. The handout, “Open Data Myths: What’s the Truth?” analyzes a selection of eight widely circulated Open Data caveats. These include misconceptions such as “Others may benefit more from my data than I do” and “Open Data is difficult and time-consuming.” Other myths have centered on the cost of Open Data, interest in one’s own research data, the impact of sharing for research careers, and the fear of losing control. Find out […]

6. May 2024 Open Educational Resources osguide

Open Textbook: “Introduction to Econometrics With R”

The textbook “Introduction to Econometrics with R” is an interactive online companion for students and researchers. Lecturers worldwide use it in their courses, and the international research community participates in further developing it. Martin Christopher Arnold and Prof. Dr Christoph Hanck are part of the project team behind the open textbook. In this interview, they talk about the organisation of the Open Educational Resource and give tips for other projects. How did your textbook project “Introduction to Econometrics with R” come about, and what is its aim? Introduction to Econometrics with R (ITER) is the result of the project Reproducible […]

8. April 2024 Open Data osguide

Data Stewards: Support for Research Data Management and Open Data

In recent years, some universities and research institutions have started to appoint data stewards. What exactly is their role and how can they support researchers? In this interview, two data stewards from the University of Basel explain their role and give tips on how to get started. Birgit Knöpfli and Dr Christian Rutzer work as data stewards at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel. This makes them the first point of contact for all researchers at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel when it comes to data management issues. This […]

1. March 2024 Open Science osguide

Reproducibility in Practice: Tips and Experiences With Reproducibility Checks

Reproducibility checks are of great value for research quality. But which aspects should be given particular attention? Prof. Arthur Seibold reports on his experiences with reproducibility checks and names two aspects on which he places a particular focus. Replicable or reproducible research results are a central aspect of good scientific practice. Non-reproducible or replicable research results are of less benefit and can reduce trust in science (replication crisis). The reasons for making your own research reproducible and how research is made reproducible are described in the Open Economics Guide. Prof. Arthur Seibold, Ph.D., Junior Professor of Finance at the University […]

13. February 2024 Open Science osguide

Pre-Registrations in Practice: Experiences and Tips From Marketing Research

How widespread are pre-registrations and what tips are there for carrying them out? Prof. Dr Sabine Kuester from the University of Mannheim gives an insight into her experiences in marketing research. In a pre-registration, researchers deposit important information about a planned study in a public register before they start conducting it. The Open Economics Guide contains background information on this, for example on the benefits of pre-registrations and how pre-registrations work. Prof. Dr Sabine Kuester holds the Chair of Marketing & Innovation at the University of Mannheim. In this interview, she talks about her experiences with pre-registrations, including from her […]

12. December 2023 Open Science osguide

Open Science Award Winners: What can be Learned From Them?

What motivates Open Science pioneers? Science researcher Ronny Röwert looked into this in his doctoral project and gives tips for researchers in this interview. In his doctoral project, Ronny Röwert (TU Hamburg) investigated why researchers practice Open Science. To do this, he focused on researchers who have been practising Open Science for a relatively long time and a lot, namely Open Science award winners from the German science system. He reveals his findings in an interview. What did you find out in your doctoral thesis? What motivates scientists to do Open Science? I was able to identify 14 motives in […]

8. November 2023 Open Educational Resources osguide

New in the Open Economics Guide: Open up Teaching With Open Educational Resources

If you are active in teaching, re-using the educational materials of other teachers can bring you some advantages. At the same time, you can help others if you also share your self-created teaching materials with third parties. That is why the Open Economics Guide of the ZBW now has a new topic area on Open Educational Resources (OER)! Here you can find out how you can directly benefit from open teaching. At the same time, useful practical tips will help you get started with the creation of open teaching resources yourself. OER refers to educational materials that are published under […]

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