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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 […]

4. July 2023 Open Science osguide

Strengthening Economics with Open Science: Examples From the Field

At a symposium on research transparency in economics, researchers exchanged ideas in Berlin. This blogpost highlights a selection of the exemplary collaborative practices mentioned there and shows how Open Science can work in economics and business studies. The ZBW regularly hosts Open Science events for economics and business studies researchers, including one in Berlin on April 27, 2023. After an initial meet-up to discuss open practices in economics, the symposium “Open Science – Research Transparency in Economics” (German) started in the afternoon. Economics researchers shared their experiences with open practices and gave the audience some food for thought. Here is […]

28. February 2023 Open Science osguide

Open Science Events: Hands-on Open Science

Still space in the appointment calendar? The Open Economics Guide of the ZBW now offers a calendar of online and offline events related to Open Science – especially for business studies and economics researchers. Conferences, workshops, webinars: The year 2023 will again offer plenty of opportunities to approach the topic of Open Science in a very practical way and to seek contact with the community. So that the overview is not lost, the Open Economics Guide of the ZBW now offers a regularly updated calendar of events, which looks at the scene from a business studies and economics perspective. Below […]

25. January 2023 Open Science osguide

Open Research Practices: Important Rules for a Seamless Implementation

The large number of practices and tools of Open Science and the possibilities they imply can be inspiring on the one hand. On the other hand they can be overwhelming. So, a little guidance on how to start may be helpful. To address this need, a team of authors formulated ten rules for implementing open and reproducible research practices. This blogpost gives you a short recap. The paper “Ten simple rules for implementing open and reproducible research practices after attending a training course” offers guidance to beginners and advanced learners for implementing robust research practices in your own projects. It […]

13. December 2022 Open Science osguide

Open Science in Practice: What is the Status in Business Studies and Economics?

As part of a representative study, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics wanted to find out whether – and if so – how deeply Open Science is anchored in the everyday research work of German business studies and economics researchers. We spoke to the study leader about the results. In spring 2022, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics conducted a broad-based representative awareness analysis among German business studies and economics researchers. One part of the survey dealt with the topic of Open Science and the question of the extent to which Open Science is already part […]

28. June 2022 Open Access, Open Science, Tools osguide

More Visibility With ORCID ID: It’s That Easy

An ORCID iD ensures that individuals are distinguishable and that your research is properly attributed. So, by using an ORCID iD, you ensure that you get credit for your research achievements. In addition, this improves the discoverability of your research results. In the blog post, you will see that it is quite easy to create an ORCID iD. At ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification Initiative) any person can register a unique identification number (ID). This ID makes a person distinguishable from other persons. This is important because several people can have the same name, spelling variants of a name can […]

2. May 2022 Open Science osguide

Open Economics Guide now Available in English: Support for Your Open Science Practice

The Open Economics Guide is also available in English now! Information and tools for successfully practicing Open Science, step-by-step instructions and relevant news from research are thus available for the first time to non-German speaking researchers in Germany. In this way, Open Science in business studies and economics can be experienced directly and be successfully reused by even more researchers. From now on, the Open Economics Guide is also available in English and thus offers even better support for non-German-speaking economics researchers. All parts of the Open Economics Guide (find out more about the guide) – including the quick guides […]

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