Reports & documents/articles/books
Reports & documents
- National roadmap for Open Science. SUHF, 13/09/2022, Ref SU-850-005-17
This roadmap clarifies the responsibilities of higher education institutions and the measures needed to accelerate work on open access to research data and research results.
- National guidelines for Open Science. The National Library of Sweden (KB), 15/01/2024, ISBN 978-91-7000-492-6
Guidelines to provide support and guidance for different stakeholders in Sweden who have overarching responsibility in the transition to open science.
- Good Research Practice 2024. The Swedish Research Council (VR), 2024, ISBN 978-91-89845-08-4
Good Research Practice 2024 provides orientation in the ethical principles and regulations that are important for research, and clarifies the responsibility that different actors have (currently only available in Swedish).
- Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. CoARA, 20/07/2022
Agreement establishing a common direction for research assessment reform: the assessment of research, researchers and research organisations recognises the diverse outputs, practices and activities that maximise the quality and impact of research.
- San Fransisco Declaration on Research Assessment. DORA, 2021
A declaration developed to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
- Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability. Research Software Alliance, 09/09/2024
A declaration to raise awareness of the role of funding practice in the sustainability of research software, and to improve that practice.
Articles
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al. (2016) Sci Data 3, 160018
The first formal publication of the FAIR Principles. Includes the rationale behind them, and some exemplar implementations in the community.
- Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L. et al. (2015) Nature 520, 429–431 A distillation of best practice in metrics-based research assessment so that researchers can hold evaluators to account, and evaluators can hold their indicators to account.
- Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR. Garcia L, Batut B, Burke ML, Kuzak M, Psomopoulos F, Arcila R, et al. (2020). PLoS Comput Biol 16(5):e1007854
Action points for trainers to help make their training materials FAIR, enabling others to find, (re)use, and adapt them.
- Ten simple rules for funding scientific open source software. Strasser C, Hertweck K, Greenberg J, Taraborelli D, Vu E (2022). PLoS Comput Biol 18(11): e1010627.
Action points for funders on how to invest in scientific open source software and the teams who build and maintain it.
Books
- The philosophy of Open Science. Sabina Leonelli (31/07/2023) ISBN 9781009416368
This book examines the role played by OS principles and practices within contemporary research and how this relates to the epistemology of science.
- Open Science: the very idea. Frank Miedema (2022). ISBN 978-94-024-2115-6
This book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research.
- Radical solutions and Open Science. Daniel Burgos (editor) (2020). ISBN 978-981-15-4276-3
This book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. It presents radical, transgenic solutions for recurrent and long-standing problems in Higher Education.
Repositories
- Figshare
A provider of open research repository infrastructure, helping organizations and researchers with sharing, showcasing and managing their research outputs in a discoverable, citable, reportable and transparent way.
- Zenodo
An open-access repository developed by CERN that enables researchers in all disciplines to share, publish, and preserve research outputs, including datasets, software, papers, and presentations.
- Researchdata.se
A new Swedish national portal for research data currently under development by SND (portal launch early 2025).
- Re3data
A global registry of research data repositories, helping researchers, funding organizations, and institutions find and identify suitable repositories for storing and accessing research data
Licensing
- Creative Commons
Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.
Further training
In-person
- An introduction to intellectual property rights in an academic context. The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES)
This course aims to enable the participants to get a broad overview of intellectual property rights and discuss how they can be used to support and impact academic research.
- Introduction to data management practices. National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
This course introduces important aspects of Research Data Management for researchers that want to take the first steps towards a more systematic and reproducible approach to analysing and managing research data.
- Training material made FAIR by design. ELIXIR
A 2 days course based on the FAIR training handbook and “10 simple rules to make material FAIR”, aiming to introduce participants with a theoretical & hands-on approach to designing FAIR training material.
Self-paced
- The Open Science Training Handbook. Open Science EU - FOSTER
The handbook aims at supporting educators of Open Science, intended as a helpful guide on how to forward knowledge on Open Science principles to networks, institutions, colleagues, and students.
- FAIR training handbook. ELIXIR FAIR training focus group
A handbook designed to provide guidance on how to FAIRify training material.
- FAIR-by-design microlearning. Skills4EOSC
A guide through the main stages of the FAIR-by-Design Methodology that will help with creating FAIR learning materials.