Open Science Tools

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…

B!SON is a free recommendation service for publishing in open-access journals. It can be used directly in a browser and does not require registration. Researchers can enter a manuscript’s title, abstr…

The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is one of the largest search machines in the world for content from Open Access repositories. BASE includes over 270 million documents of over 8,000 data su…

BERD Data Portal is a data repository. You can search and browse various types of data relevant for research in business studies, economics and social sciences. Each dataset is described using compreh…

CWTS Journal Indicators is a bibliometric tool. It aims to provide researchers with insights into the scientific impact of more than 20,000 research journals. The indicators have been calculated by Le…

DataCite is an international initiative to support access to research data. On the one hand, it offers an international search machine for research results in which a search for registered datasets is…

DINI (German) certifies Open Access publication services in Germany. The directory of institutional and specialist repositories is a good starting point for German-speaking researchers if they are loo…

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) contains over 40,000 scholarly OA books. They have undergone peer review. A detailed search can be used to narrow down the results. DOAB also contains textboo…

Emporion is a platform for Open Research Data and data papers from social and economic history. It allows searching for Research Data and data papers. Likewise, time series, historical statistical and…

F-UJI is an automated FAIR data assessment tool. It can be used to check the extent to which an individual data record complies with the FAIR principles . After entering a persistent identifier (such …

The FAIR Assessment Tool helps you make your data FAIR. The tool uses an online questionnaire for self-assessment and gives ideas for improving the FAIRness of data. It helps you identify gaps in term…

The FAIR Check tool helps you to evaluate the extent to which your research data complies with the FAIR principles. Simply click through a self-check questionnaire. The results are displayed visually.…

FAIR-Aware is a knowledge testing tool for FAIR data. Researchers can use it to test their knowledge in order to make their datasets FAIR before uploading them to a data repository. For this purpose, …

It’s useful to consult the Journal Checker Tool (JCT) to help in the selection of a journal. The tool is a search machine that checks whether a journal complies with the Open Access policy of the fund…

The Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) is the successor to the International Journal for Re-views in Empirical Economics (IREE). It aims to become the leading journal in economic…

Matilda is an open academic search engine aiming to make references and citation data as usable as Open Access scholarly texts and datasets. By treating academic documents and their metadata equally i…

The Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) is hosted by the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. It also contains over 50,000 economics publications from all over the world. These normally come from in…

The Open Access Books Toolkit informs authors about how Open Access works for books and provides support for publishing.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. It promotes the transition to Open Access for scientific books. To do this it provides op…

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a coalition of publishers who offer Open Access as a business model. They include major commercial publishers such as Springer and Wiley as …

The platform Open Edition offers not only Open Access to books, but also to journals and blogs from the humanities and social sciences. Open Edition journals lists journals from the humanities and soc…

Open Research Europe is an Open Access publication platform for the publication of results from EU-funded projects from the research funding programmes Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. The platform co…

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 …

The Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) can help in the search for published research data and in the selection of a suitable repository. It offers a searchable directory of all the main …

The Repository Finder can be used to search for suitable repositories for publishing research data. Only repositories that support the FAIR principles are displayed. It is a pilot project of the Enabl…

German research infrastructures can be found via the DFG-funded information portal RIsources (German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG). The research infrastructures listed pr…

SATIFYD (Self-Assessment Tool to Improve the FAIRness of Your Dataset) is a self-assessment tool for FAIR data. It helps assess the FAIR maturity of one's research data. By answering twelve questions,…

SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that contains scientific rankings for journals and countries. These rankings can be used to evaluate and analyse scientific fields. For example, journals…

SciRev helps you choose a journal for submitting your manuscripts by comparing publication speeds, peer review quality and other journal statistics. You can search for a journal with a quick review pr…

Software Heritage is a long-term archive for source code that enables researchers to preserve, reference, and cite software as a first-class research output. The platform captures the code along with …

SowiDataNet|datorium is a research data repository for the fields of social sciences and economics. It enables researchers to share quantitative primary and secondary data easily and securely. The res…

SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is a website and document server for the rapid dissemination of research papers. An interdisciplinary service, it covers the entire social sciences. In terms of …

VHB-Rating (previous version: VHB-JOURQUAL3) is a rating of relevant journals in business studies on the basis of decisions by members of the German Academic Association of Business Research (Verband …

The ZBW Journal Data Archive is a free-of-charge service for publishers of commercial and economics journals. The aim is to offer the journals an easy-to-use infrastructure for the management as well …