Course

This course has been developed by the Open University.

This course will help you to make your research more open. You will explore what open research is, why it’s important, and how it can be applied to different disciplines and stages of the research process. You will become familiar with the underlying principles of open research: transparency, integrity, and accessibility. You will consider the actions you need to take, to ensure your own research outputs meet all three of these standards.

To get a taster of the material in this course, check out our interactive decision-making tree (below). It’s open access, so you can share it with colleagues. Some of the links from this decision-making aid take you to resources within the Open Research course. If you have already enrolled on the course, and you are signed in, the links will take you straight to the relevant section. If this is your first time here, you’ll need to create an Open University account via the sign up button on OpenLearn Create to be able to access material within the course. It’s free to sign up!

Explore the interactive decision-making tool.