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  • Open Science Ambassadors – Recap, Follow-up, Spotlight

    Open Science Ambassadors – Recap, Follow-up, Spotlight

    Recap: Open Science Ambassadors Meeting 2024 – Materials now available! We’re looking back on our successful Open Science Ambassadors meeting, held on November 6-7 in Berlin. Thank you to all attendees for their active participation, inspiring discussions, and shared experiences.… read more

  • Love Data Week – FAIR Data Management: A Workshop OER for Flexible Learning Environments

    Love Data Week – FAIR Data Management: A Workshop OER for Flexible Learning Environments

    Join the Love Data Week Celebration! This February 10-14, the international community comes together to celebrate the love of data during Love Data Week. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events… read more

  • Open Science Ambassadors meeting

    Open Science Ambassadors meeting

    The Open Science Ambassadors program is a community of researchers who are passionate about promoting transparency, reproducibility and collaboration in science. Our Ambassadors come from diverse backgrounds, various research disciplines and a variety of Max Planck Institutes. The common goal… read more

Open Science Facets

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Open Access

Open Access (OA) stands for unrestricted and free of cost online access to scholarly research. The term “open access”…

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Open Research Data

The phrase “open research data” is used to describe data, which is considered open in some capacity. It can be either the foundation…

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Linked Open Data

Linked open data is closely connected to the idea of open research data. However, it extends the idea of freely accessible data…

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Open Source

Open Source is a facet of Open Science that combines different movements that are all concerned with the accessible provision of source materials. This includes…

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Open Process

Methods that improve the credibility, transparency and replicability of scientific research can be grouped under the Open Process facet. While these three pillars…

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Open Review

Open Review is an umbrella term for a variety of methods that intend to open the process of (peer) review, which is the traditional way to assure quality in science. Drafted journal articles…

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Open Education

The openness movement within education intends to remove barriers to institution-based learning through a better access to participation and recognition. The first collection…

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Citizen Science

Citizen Science refers to the growing involvement of amateur or non-professional scientists in the research process. In some research fields…