A variety of tools can support you in practicing Open Science. We have put a selection for you in our tool overview and classified each tool according to the various phases of scientific workflow.

The following aspects can help you in selecting suitable tools:

• Data protection: Am I processing personal data and does the tool fulfil the data privacy requirements (is it GDPR compliant)?
• Open Source: Is the tool itself open?
• Non-profit: Is the tool non-profit or commercial?
• Open data and formats: Is the tool based on open, licenced data and open standardised file formats or does it provide these?
• Free of charge: Is it free of charge to use?
• Community-driven: Is the tool being (further) developed by the community?

We have put together a small selection of Open Science tools to provide you with an initial impression.

Open Science tools of the ZBW:

As a public institution, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics offers several non-commercial Open Science tools directly for the field of economics. These include:

• EconStor
• EconBiz
• Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE)
• ZBW Journal Data Archive

Comprehensive Open Science tools

The Open Science tools that cover the majority of the scientific workflow and/or various Open Science fields include:

• Open Science Framework (OSF)
• Jupyter

Tool collections with Open Science tools. (You will find certain tools at the corresponding Open Science topics.):

• Toolbox – Resources for Researchers of the Open Science Center of the LMU Munich with tools for planning research, for implementation, for data analysis and the publication of data, materials and papers.