Introduction to Open Science

Edubron meeting 05/03/2024

Sven De Maeyer

What and why?

What is Open Science?

“Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods.”

[https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/]

What is Open Science?

Why bother?

  • “taxpayer have the right to access research results of government-funded research”

  • “funding agencies are explicitly asking for it (e.g., FWO, Europe,…)”

  • “journals are asking for it”

  • “public software and open data will make research more reproducible”

  • “submitting data and research materials to an independent repository ensures preservation and accessibility of that content in the future - both for one’s own access and for others”

Why bother?

  • easier reconstructing work from years earlier
  • likely to engage in behaviors easy to skip in the short-term but with substantial benefits in the long-term (e.g., clear documentation)
  • increase the reproducibility of published findings
  • increase the ease with which other researchers can use, extend, and cite that work
  • signals that researchers value transparency and have confidence in their own research.

For me personally

  • Issues reconstructing my own previous research!

  • Create documentation for myself

  • More awareness of the value of reproducibility

  • Makes me think more about processes in the analyses

Examples

  • Zenodo repository


https://zenodo.org/records/5520598


  • Open Science Framework (OSF)

https://osf.io/6uf4j/

  • Rmarkdown or Quarto + Github + Netlify

https://bstat-edubron24.netlify.app/

https://majestic-pixie-28398c.netlify.app/

  • Quarto + Quarto.pub

https://sdemaeyer.quarto.pub/

  • Rpubs

https://rpubs.com/sdemaeyer/Intro_Open_Science