Open Science Tools

The AEA RCT Registry is a public registry for randomised controlled trials in economics and the social sciences, maintained by the American Economic Association (AEA). Researchers can document their s…

All Contributors is a bot for projects on GitHub bot for recognizing all contributors to an open-source project. By leaving a comment on an issue or pull request (contributions and discussions within …

alphaXiv offers open research discussion forums directly on top of single arXiv research papers. Each paper is equipped with one discussion forum, where users can comment line-by-line on the paper its…

ARGOS supports researchers in learning and applying best practices for creating open and FAIR data management plans (DMPs). This includes creating machine actionable DMPs, complying with DMP requireme…

The platform AsCollected supports documenting results-provenance in research publications. Thus, it captures information on when and how data for a paper were obtained and who was responsible for clea…

On the platform AsPredicted researchers can pre-register their studies. Others can read and evaluate those pre-registrations. Researchers have to answer nine simple questions about their research desi…

Bookmarks can be managed and publications used jointly with BibSonomy. Content is developed by several users together, so that it thereby functions as a social bookmarking system. BibSonomy offers fle…

Codeberg is a collaboration platform and a Git-based version control service for open source projects. It offers a privacy-friendly alternative to GitHub and GitLab.

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 Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) is an international open-source platform for the collaborative creation of data management plans (DMPs) in line with the FAIR principles. Researchers applying for fun…

The DMP tool helps in the preparation of data management plans. Researchers from participating institutions can log in from a corresponding account and then profit from an institutionally adjusted imp…

GitHub is a web-based platform and repository for version management of source code of mostly Open Source software projects. Version control is based on Git, the software for distributed version contr…

Similar to GitHub, GitLab offers the management and hosting of Source Code in software development projects and is particularly suitable for Open Source projects. It is based on Git, the system for di…

GoTriple is a discovery platform aiming to foster networking and collaboration in the humanities and social sciences. It supports searching, finding and networking. Noteworthy is its multilingualism, …

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 Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free-of-charge network for research materials, an open source project management tool as well as one of the widely used registries for preregistration in the soci…

PaperHive describes itself as a coworking hub that brings researchers together. It enables collaborative reading, references management, Peer Review and proofreading in the community, among other thin…

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…

PYBOSSA is a web-based platform for running task-based citizen science and crowdsourcing projects. Researchers can create projects, define tasks, and make them available to a larger group of contribut…

RDMO (Research Data Management Organiser) supports institutions and researchers in the research data management of their projects. It makes it possible to compile all relevant planning information in …

ReproducibiliTea is a grassroots movement that helps researchers set up Open Science journal clubs on site at their university. In the clubs, content and ideas for improving science, reproducibility a…

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…

STAPLE (Science Tracking Across the Project LifEspan) is a web-based project management tool for research projects. It supports researchers in structuring projects across the entire research lifecycle…

Zotero is a free-of-charge tool for search and reference management, which helps in the finding, organising, citing and sharing of research results. It has a browser extension. The scope of function i…