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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 […]

$LaTeX: Promoting Open Science With Text Processing$

30. August 2023 Tools osguide

LaTeX: Promoting Open Science With Text Processing

LaTeX helps researchers in business studies and economics to design complex research papers, reports and presentations professionally. Read about the advantages LaTeX offers in terms of Open Science and how to get started in the blog post. LaTeX is a text processing system designed for creating scientific and technical documents. Unlike traditional word processors such as Microsoft Word, it is based on a markup language whose focus is on content rather than design. LaTeX allows authors to define the structure of their document and format the text using simple commands. Advantages of LaTeX Among the advantages of LaTeX are: In […]

26. July 2023 Tools osguide

From Articles to Software: Cite Research Results Correctly With CiteAs

The thing about citing data sets – how did that work again? And how do I actually reference software correctly? These are exactly the kinds of questions that the free tool CiteAs answers with just a few clicks. The blogpost shows how it works in practice. CiteAs is a new and free browser tool that helps with the correct citation of different types of sources – not only articles and preprints, but also data sets and software. So on the one hand, CiteAs helps directly in referencing source citations. On the other hand, the original authors who have produced these […]

28. March 2023 Tools osguide

Review the Peer Review Process: More Transparency with SciRev

Tired of endlessly waiting for an uncertain outcome? This is how review processes of academic journals are often perceived. SciRev was born based on researchers’ experiences with the scientific review process. A short introduction to a tool that is made by researchers for researchers. The SciRev team around Jeroen Smits, president of SciRev and professor of economic and human development at the department of Economics of Radboud University, aims to improve the unpleasant situation of researchers during journal review processes. SciRev makes the processes more transparent. It offers researchers the opportunity to share their experiences and to select an efficient […]

28. November 2022 Open Access, Tools osguide

Choosing the Best Open Access Journal for Your Paper: How the new oa.finder Helps

Which journal is the right one for the paper I am planning? Faced with thousands of specialist journals, choosing the right one is a challenge. Especially if you want to publish in Open Access and have to keep an eye on the financing of possible fees. The new tool oa.finder now offers further support with its extensive search and filter options. At the end of October 2022, the new KB entry was launched. Developed as part of the joint project “open-access.network” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and operated by Bielefeld University Library, the free search tool provides […]

27. September 2022 Open Data, Tools osguide

Where to Find or Publish Research Data: 10 Years of Re3Data

If you are looking for research data or a suitable repository to publish your research data, Re3Data is a one-stop shop. Now the directory is celebrating its tenth anniversary. We congratulate and show how it helps you select research data repositories. For ten years now, the Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) has been supporting researchers around the world. With entries from all major research data repositories (more than 2,800) across all research disciplines, Re3Data is the most comprehensive source of information on research data repositories. The search and filtering functionalities make the platform as useful for finding published research data […]

29. August 2022 Open Access, Tools osguide

Easier Search: 5 Useful Browser Extensions for Open Content

Browser extensions simplify work by integrating activities directly into the web browser and thus into the workflow. Various browser extensions make searching in the context of research work easier. Here is an overview. A browser extension can easily be added to your own browser or browsers. It increases the functionality of browsers by adding new options. Browser extensions exist for a wide variety of applications and can make research work much easier. Here are some browser extensions that work well to help you find Open Access literature and royalty-free images (in alphabetical order): The CC Search Browser Extension allows you […]

26. July 2022 Open Access, Tools osguide

Recognizing Reputable Journals and Publishers: How Think. Check. Submit. Helps you With Your Publication

Nobody wants to accidentally publish in a dubious journal or with a dubious publisher. To prevent this from happening, there are a number of criteria you should consider. The website Think. Check. Submit. summarizes these in convenient checklists. Just try it out and gain confidence for a serious publication in Open Access. Predatory publishing is a fraudulent business model used by certain open access publishers. These pretend to be fully fledged research journals. They charge publication fees to authors that are customary in the Open Access segment. However, they do not provide the editorial and publishing services expected of serious […]

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