What is open research?
Introduction
What is open research? There are many different definitions, and these may vary from discipline to discipline and across research methodologies. Here are a couple of examples:
Open research … relates to how research is performed and how knowledge is shared based on the principle that research should be as open as possible.
Researchers around the world, in all disciplines, store, share and reuse their outputs with the wider community, so everyone can access insights and knowledge much sooner, helping to advance their work and support reproducibility.
Simply, open research is a way of doing research that focuses on being transparent, honest, and thorough. It's about making sure that all the steps of a study are clear and accessible, so that other researchers can understand, verify, and build upon the methodology and findings. It is an open door to research evidence, where everyone can see what's available and contribute to the collective pool of knowledge.
No matter what your career stage, it is important to learn about how open research applies to your discipline, so that you can better assess the quality of research in your field and conduct more open research yourself. By the end of this course, you will have a good understanding of the principles underlying open research, and a set of practical techniques you can use to translate these abstract principles into action.
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