Open Science Tools

CODECHECK is an initiative in which independent, volunteer “codecheckers” run the code underlying scientific articles and confirm that the calculations and results are indeed reproducible. Researchers…

The Creative Commons License Chooser supports the selection of a suitable licence to publish publications or other materials.

Figshare is a commercial multimedia-repository with DOI-allocation, in which researchers can secure and share their research results. These also include illustrations, datasets, photos and videos. Fig…

Hypothes.is is an open source software project that aims to collect comments to statements that are accessible online in some kind of form. It filters and ranks these comments in order to evaluate the…

The License Clearance Tool is a wizard for selecting a suitable licence, for example for data sets or software. It offers two approaches for "clearance": On the one hand, a clearance based on an exist…

The Public License Selector helps in the selection of a suitable licence for the publication of software and data. You are asked a series of questions, which help to filter the number of hits so you c…

PubPeer makes it possible to give feedback to preprints or also other published scientific publications. The platform thereby serves the principle of Open Peer Review. Anonymous comments are permitted…

Retraction Watch is a blog about retracted publications and a database of retracted publications.

The platform Scite enables scientific articles to be detected and evaluated in an alternative way using smart citations. These show how a scientific paper is cited. To do this, they show the context o…

The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) aims to improve the computational reproducibility of social science research, hence the ability to reproduce the results, tables, and other figures foun…