Find out more about the services and resources provided by the Library Open Research team and Open Research practices. Explore key services with respect to data management, open-access publication, and participatory research, along with useful tools to support Open Research in practice. The Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2027 The call for contributions for EORC27 is out now. This year we are asking about the future. What will Open Research look like tomorrow? How will local and global changes to the research context shift our approaches to openness? What challenges will we be facing, and what positive changes do we hope will have been made? We will therefore be exploring the intersection of open research with sustainability and climate change, trust and misinformation, human-centred research, multilingualism, and many more topics.Find out how to submit, bursary opportunities, and more information on the conference themes via the link below. View the call for contributions Past Conferences The Edinburgh Open Research Conference is an opportunity for interested parties from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to come together to consider how we might make research more open and accessible to everyone. The conference is hybrid, with slides, abstracts and recordings all available online after the event. View recordings from past conferences View past slides & abstracts Open Research NewsletterThe Edinburgh Open Research Newsletter is a bi-monthly newsletter containing news, opinion pieces, events, and more from the Open Research Team. If you have anything you would like to have included in a future issue please email the editor Kerry Miller (kerry.miller@ed.ac.uk)Sign-Up to get future issues in your in-boxPast Issues before June 2026 can be found here in the archiveKey Services & Resources Edinburgh Diamond Welcome to Edinburgh Diamond! We are the University of Edinburgh's Library Publishing Partner for Diamond Open Access books and journals led and owned by our academics, professional staff and students. DataShare open access data repository Everything you need to know to deposit and begin sharing your data publicly. Research Staff Hub – Open Research The University’s Research Staff Hub has more information on Open Research tools at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Open Research Initiative and ReproducibiliTea Learn more about Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea the Edinburgh Open Research Initiative, two grassroots efforts to promote and sustain an Open Research culture at the University. Additional ResourcesThere are numerous additional internal and external resources to support you on your Open Research journey. We are frequently reviewing the services on offer at the University that promote OpenAccess work, and welcome suggestions for new tools that may be of use to researchers at the University.Open Science Framework - free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration.Open Science Framework (OSF) is an open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle.As a collaboration tool, OSF helps research teams work on projects privately or make the entire project publicly accessible for broad dissemination. As a workflow system, OSF enables connections to the many products researchers already use, streamlining their process and increasing efficiency.Learn more about Open Science FrameworkRSpace Data Services - an electronic lab notebookThe University of Edinburgh-hosted RSpace is an electronic lab notebook that enables researchers to do the following:capture and organize datause as collaboration software for groups to organise and share datause as a management tool for principal investigators to observe and manage lab workflowsuse as a platform for institutions to capture, publish and archive datause the new sample inventory featureLearn more about RSpace Data ServicesNoteable - a cloud based computational notebook serviceCreate and share computational notebooks hassle-free for teaching and learning through your VLE. Use any language and environment through a centralised hub. Built from the powerful Jupyter project, Noteable.Learn more about Noteable [External Link]protocols.io - an online platform for the creation, management, and sharing of research protocols or methodsThe University has a subscription to the protocols.io service and it is available to all staff and students of the University. Users can:Create new protocols within the systemUpload existing methods and digitise themShare protocols between group members and external collaboratorsPublish protocol(s) making them freely available for others to use and cite or keep them privateLearn More About Protocols.io [External Link]The Software Sustainability InstituteThe Software Sustainability Institute cultivates better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research. We help people build better software, and we work with researchers, developers, funders and infrastructure providers to identify key issues and best practice in scientific software.Visit the Software Sustainability Institute [External Link] Open Content LibGuide - a library guide bringing together Open Access resources for use in study, teaching and research.The Open Content LibGuide tells you everything you need to know about Open Access and Open Educational Resources.Explore the Open Content LibGuideExpand allCollapse allStay in TouchOur monthly newsletter summarises current work the Library Open Research team is doing, introduces you to our wonderful colleagues along with important resources for conducting Open Research, and will keep you up to date with the latest Open Research events and activities taking place at the University and beyond. Sign up to the Open Research Newsletter for news and updates [External Site] This article was published on Tuesday 21 July 2026
