Open Science Tools

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…

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…

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

Datavzrd makes it easier to understand and utilise complex data. The tool transforms tables into interactive, visually appealing HTML reports. This allows users to quickly and clearly visualise their …

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, …

Gretl (GNU Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library) is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis that runs locally on the computer. It includes all the basic statistical tech…

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…

Julia VS Code is an extension of the free Open Source development environment Visual Studio Code (VS Code) from Microsoft. It offers a wide range of functions that are specially tailored to the needs …

Jupyter is a very new open source platform that is in the process of becoming the standard platform for the exchange of research results. It supports interactive research data evaluations and scientif…

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…

Notepad++ is a text and code editor that offers an advanced alternative to the simple Windows Notepad editor. It runs on Microsoft Windows and supports multiple languages, offers syntax highlighting f…

The Open Data Editor (ODE) is a no-code desktop application that makes working with data easier without writing source code. It helps non-technical data practitioners to explore tables, to detect erro…

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…

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…

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…

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.

RStudio Desktop is an Open Source development environment for the programming language R. The software was developed to make working with R easier, thus it offers a variety of tools and functions that…

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…