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. Open Research Conference 2025 “Open Research: What’s Stopping You?”Wednesday June 4th Pollock Halls, South Hall Complex & Online Thank you for all of those who have submitted papers for the 2025 edition of the Open Research Conference, submissions have now closed. We have had a number of very high quality submissions. Registration for the conference will open presently. Visit the conference event page 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)Current IssueSign-Up to get future issues in your in-boxPrevious Issues can be found here in the archiveKey Services & Resources Edinburgh Diamond Welcome to Edinburgh Diamond! Situated within Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh Diamond is a Diamond Open Access publishing service for books and journals created by University of Edinburgh academics, staff and students. Research Staff Hub – Open Research The University’s Research Staff Hub has more information on Open Research tools at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea and Open Research Initiative 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 2024-08-21
