We are delighted to now be part of the Free Journal Network, a community of free-to-read and free-to-publish journals like ours! freejournals.org/current-memb...

🥂 New winners of the Improving Research Community Builder Award are announced! 🥂

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to the over 100+ ECRs who applied.

Find out more about the wide variety of projects we are supporting here: www.orben.group/improving-re...

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Open science in agricultural economics Abstract. We provide a ‘big picture’ of what Open Science is and what benefits, limitations, and risks it entails for agricultural economists. We show that

Exciting paper by @robertfinger.bsky.social, @arne-henningsen.bsky.social, @juliahoehler.bsky.social, @robehube.bsky.social, @jensrommel.bsky.social and Carola Grebitus.

The best practice example for #OpenScience when i.e. collecting primary #data or writing #replication packages are great! 1/5

New Preprint! "Reproducibility and replicability of qualitative research: An integrative review of concepts, barriers and enablers" - osf.io/preprints/me...

A nice ouput from our TIER2 project, led by Nicki Lisa Cole :)

Happy Friday!

Following on from my guide on preregistration, here is the second exciting instalment:

“Registered Reports: A How-To Guide” 📖🔓

osf.io/preprints/ps...

#OpenScience #OpenResearch #AStudentsGuide #Metaresearch #ResearchTraining #RegisteredReports #Preregistration #AcademicSky (1/6)

✨ PREPRINT 📖🤩

"Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide"

Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

If you are new to open research and are looking for a place to start, including examples from Sport and Exercise Science, take a look at the UKRN Open Research across disciplines resource...