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…

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…

CFF Init is a user-friendly online tool for creating Citation File Format (CFF) files for software or code. CFF is a simple format that allows researchers and developers to add citable metadata about …

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Docker is an Open Source platform that enables developers to create, deploy and run applications in containers. These containers include all the necessary components, such as code, runtime, system too…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

MyBinder is a cloud platform that allows Jupyter Notebooks to be started and shared directly from a Git repository. Changes can be transferred back to the GitHub or GitLab repository, hosting right in…

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…

Using the tool Octopub, developed by the Open Data Institute, you can learn about the future of Open Data publishing, according to the operator. It helps researchers to validate their data, select the…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 Data Editors Template README is a freely available, standardised template that helps researchers create a structured and comprehensive README file for their replication package. Dev…

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 …

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…

templatereadme.org is a browser-based editor that helps researchers quickly create a README file for their replication package. Using modular, pre-built sections (for example dataset list, licence, in…

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…

The World Bank README Generator is a browser-based editor that guides researchers step by step through creating a README file for their replication package. The tool structures documentation according…

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…