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 …

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…

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.

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…

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…

Dataverse is an open source software for setting up a repository for research data, which can be used by journals or research institutions, among others. Researchers can use the general Harvard Datave…

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…

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…

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…

Jupyter Book is an open-source tool that allows you to create structured, interactive books or documentation from Jupyter Notebooks and Markdown files and publish them as a website. Code blocks (for e…

The Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open source journal administration and publication system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project to expand and improve access to research. Journal…

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…

OpenAlex is a freely accessible, interdisciplinary platform for over 480 million academic works, including journal articles, preprints, books, datasets and dissertations from around the world. It is r…

In OSF Preprints, over two million preprints can be searched for or found with the browsing option. Preprints can also be shared. Their impact can be followed with metrics such as the download figures…

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…

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing platform built on the conversion software Pandoc. It allows researchers to turn plain text and code into polished papers, slides, websites,…

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 …

ShareYourPaper helps researchers to make their research visible and thereby to receive more citations. It makes self-archiving easy by helping to make postprints and/or “author accepted manuscripts” o…

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…

The Lens is an open platform for the mapping of innovations and useful information on them. In particular, this platform lists almost all patent information in the world as openly accessible, annotata…

Transpose – TRANsparency in Scholarly Publishing for Open Scholarship Evolution is a database that contains journal policies for the three fields Open (Peer) Review, co-reviewing and preprints. Transp…

Zenodo is a free-of-charge, cross-disciplinary repository that is primarily used for scientific datasets but also for science-related software, publications, reports, presentations, videos and similar…

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…