Which materials exist for introducing specific audiences to open science?

Question

Open science is still rather new as a concept to many researchers, funders, research administrators, science journalists, educators, students, librarians, publishers and others, as well as the wider public.

It has however been around for a while, so a range of materials have already been produced to introduce specific audiences to the topic, e.g. the Wikipedia articles on open research and open science or Michael Nielsen's TEDx Waterloo talk.

If you know of such materials, please post them here (one answer per resource), ideally with some comments, e.g. on target audience, strengths, weaknesses and topicality. The answers will inform an initiative that is exploring to build an Open Science 101.

Answer 1

Open Science Training Initiative - Shuttleworth-funded initiative from 2013 by Sophie Kershaw (Stilettoed Mathematician) ad colleagues.

Website: http://www.opensciencetraining.com/index.php

Material available on Github: https://github.com/StilettoFiend/OpenScienceTraining

License: CC BY

 

Answer 2

Software Carpentry with a very focused scope: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/

Answer 3

Data Carpentry with data-centered focus: http://www.datacarpentry.org/lessons/

Answer 4

Working Open Workshop material by Mozilla Science Lab: https://mozillascience.github.io/working-open-workshop/

Answer 5

Initial steps toward reproducible research (a minimal tutorial) http://kbroman.org/steps2rr

liscence: CC0

Answer 6

Less of a concrete material collection, but in 2014/2015, open science training was addressed by the OKF. Here's a summarizing blogpost (Jenny Molloy): http://science.okfn.org/2014/12/21/open-training-for-open-science/

Answer 7

There is an older Mozilla Science Pad with a worked out open science curriculum: https://old.etherpad-mozilla.org/openScienceCurriculum

Answer 8

Open Science Resources by provided by the FOSTER OPEN SCIENCE project: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science

• mainly blogposts, talks, presentations
• includes a taxonomy that might be helpful to sketch the open science educational resource language (maybe a handy addition to the research cycle model mentioned by Daniel/RIO Journal to be used as a basis for the "Open Science Travel Guide")

Answer 9

Material provided by the Finnish Open Science and Research Initiative, which was funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland:

• Open Science and Research Handbook: https://avointiede.fi/documents/14273/0/Open+Science+and+Research+Handbook+v.1.0/50316d5d-440b-4496-b039-2997663afff8 (PDF)
• Data Management Guide: http://openscience.fi/data-management-guide
• Open Science Expert Training: http://openscience.fi/open-science-expert-training

Answer 10

The book Open Science, Open Issues. There are chapters covering several aspects of openness in science, and a final chapter on guidelines for institutions.

Answer 11

Collaborative Replications and Education Project (CREP) at the Centre for Open Science: https://osf.io/wfc6u/

...is a replication project where students are encouraged to conduct replications as part of their courses.

Answer 12

UNESCO’s Open Access (OA) Curriculum: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unescos_open_access_oa_curriculum_is_now_online/#.VTeUCcf-Bjf

• 4 Modules for Library Schools
• 5 Modules for Researchers

Material available as PDFs with CC BY-SA.

Comments

I think we should try to focus on open science here - open access is already covered in many other places.

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In general I agree. However, some of the material can be useful to look at (e.g.  the material on Intellectual Property rights).

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I also agree Open Access has been covered extensively, however for me it's also a central part of Open Science and at least we can provide links to resources.

Answer 13

Open Science Guidelines by the TU Delft, as developed following the 2014 memorandum where "...Open Research as a stepping stone towards Open Science was approved by the Executive Board."

http://openscienceguide.tudelft.nl/

Answer 14

The Open Science and Reproducible Research course
by Christie Bahlai (she's a Mozilla Fellow for Science, https://mozillascience.org/fellows)

https://github.com/cbahlai/OSRR_course

Has a focus on open data and statistical computing language R.

There's also a talk to this material: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vzCDqYf7YjcCDnD0rtz4Mwemf1lOP6yjx_OANiMKJJM/edit?pref=2&pli=1#slide=id.p

Answer 15

101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication

A collection of tools focused on scientific publishing (discovery, writing, publication), but also analysis and outreach.

https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/

Comments

Here also the raw collection of well-known 400+ Tools and innovations in scholarly communication by Bianca and Jeroen: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KUMSeq_Pzp4KveZ7pb5rddcssk1XBTiLHniD0d3nDqo/edit#gid=0

Answer 16

OARR: Open Access and Reproducible Research Compendium

 A wiki colleciton of philosophies and practices representing the state of the art in open access and reproducible research.

https://github.com/camillescott/oarr-compendium

Answer 17

openstax

Nonprofit to provide peer-reviewed textbooks and digital learning tools (college and K-12).

https://openstax.org/

Answer 18

Author Carpentry (from Caltech library)

Develops and teaches scientists skills in preparing and submitting research contributions for public dissemination, whether by self-archiving in a pre-print server or university repository or by peer-reviewed journal or referreed book. The ultimate vision is to teach researchers to produce and curate the Scientific Paper of the Future: crafted as fully open, executable, reproducible, reusable contributions ready to be built upon by others.

http://libguides.caltech.edu/authorcarpentry

Porting the material to GitHub is currently in progress.

Answer 19

Talks on Open Science

There are a couple of talks from Konrad Förstner on Open Science with a CC-BY license:
https://speakerdeck.com/konrad/

I also did a small one in my lab:
https://speakerdeck.com/aleimba/what-is-open-science

I'm sure there're lots more out there.

These might be reused.

Answer 20

Digital Skills and Scholarship for Researchers

Post-graduate course at the University of Auckland. Can be used individually and for a semester course.

https://digital-skills-for-researchers.github.io/coursebook/

Answer 21

Wiki-manual from the Brazilian group Ciência Aberta

Handbook for Open Science

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=pt-BR&sl=pt&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fpt.wikiversity.org%2Fwiki%2FManual_para_Ci%C3%AAncia_Aberta

Answer 22

Project "Science 2.0 and Open Science in Higher Education".
So far, we collected issues on a checklist and discussed with colleagues at the OER camp in Berlin in Feb this year:

• 1st checklist - to be expanded
• a poster summarizing 1st results
• discussion pad form OER camp

Answer 23

Helpful glossary by the folks of Right to Research Coalition: http://www.righttoresearch.org/resources/openresearchglossary/

Answer 24

The book Opening Science.