Awesome Open Science

A list of useful resources for helping you do science in the open.

Table of Contents

• Funding
• Conferences
• Tools
• Publishers
• Communities
• Projects
• Repositories
• Training
• Licence

Funding

• Open Grants - a list of grants that are openly available on the web. These grants can help with learning grantsmanship, understanding particular funders and their programs, and communicating science.
• Open Science Prize - aims to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.
• ContentMine Fellowships - liberate scientific facts from academic journals and help to enable anyone to perform research using content mining.
• Panton Fellowships - researchers who actively promote open data in all areas of science and research.
• Knight-Mozilla Open News - for people who love to code and want to influence the future of journalism on the web.

Conferences

• Open Con - a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data.
• Creative Commons Global Summit - collaborative and fun space for anyone in the world to explore the future of the Commons and sharing for users, creators, and activists.
• WOSP - exploring the potential of text and data mining technologies to improve the process of how research is being done.
• MozWOW - set of trainings to teach open science practice and develop projects.
• CSV,Conf - community conference for data makers everywhere.
• FORCE - future of research communications and e-scholarship.
• JupyterCon - communicating data, management, and collaboration.
• OpenConCam - about open access, open data, and open education.
• ODSC - for anyone who wants to connect to the data science community and contribute to open source applications.
• Liber - about the role libraries have in open science.
• Shaking it up - making the open science mandate work for you.
• MozFest - citizen science, open data, learning and research.
• GOSH! - learning about, and building open science hardware.
• Open Science Workflow - an introduction in Open Science for researchers of all disciplines.

Tools

• World Brain - create, search, and share your personal web of knowledge.
• SciHub - the first website in the world to provide mass and public access to research papers.
• Quickscrape - a simple command-line tool for powerful, modern website scraping.
• Getpapers - get metadata, fulltexts or fulltext URLs of papers matching a search query.
• Open Retractions - check for retraction notices of any journal article.
• Authorea - write, cite, collaborate, host data, and publish all in one place.
• Bionumbers - the database of useful biological numbers.
• Retraction Watch - tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
• Zotero - a personal research assisstent within your browser.
• Hypothes.is - annoate the web: discuss, collaborate, organise your research.
• Open Knowledge Maps - visualise a research topic.
• Scholar Ninja - an open, distributed search engine for science.
• Open Access Button - avoid paywalls, access data.
• Impact Story - track the online impact of your research.
• Open retractions - check for retraction notices from any journal.
• Authorea - write live documents, collaboratively online.
• Share LaTeX - the easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor.
• Overleaf - online LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing tool.
• Creative Commons - helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity.
• Unpaywall:browser plugin that let you download legal versions of scientific papers.

Publishers

• F1000 - an open science publishing platform for life sciences that offers immediate publication and transparent peer review.
• The BMJ - international peer reviewed medical journal with open access.
• PeerJ - efficiently publishing the world's knowledge through internet-scale innovation and open access licensing to save your time, your money, and to maximize recognition of your contributions.
• Wellcome Open Research - a new way for Wellcome-funded researchers to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing.
• PLOS - nonprofit publisher, innovator and advocacy organisation.
• Royal Society Open Science - fast, open journal covering all of science, maths, and engineering.

Communities

• Mozilla Science Lab - making research open and accessible.
• Berlin Open Science Meetup
• BioJulia - bioinformatics and computational biology in the Julia language.
• Jupyter - interactive data and scientific computing.
• ContentMine - mine facts collaboratively, taking advantage of the Hargreaves Exception.
• Open Knowledge Foundation - international network realising the value of open data.
• ROpenSci - access data repositories from the R statistical programming environment.
• Open Science MOOC - community organisation for the development of an Massive Open Online Community for Open Science.

Projects

• Zooniverse - the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
• Paperhive - simplifying research communication and transforming reading into a process of collaboration.
• Altmetric - tracks a range of sources to capture and collate activity, helping you to monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work you care about.
• Coko Foundation - evolve how knowledge is created, produced and reported.
• Internet Archive - library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Dat - distributed data sharing tool.
• COAR - open access repository network.
• OpenAIRE - network of open repositories, archives, and journals.
• Bionode - modular and universal bioinformatics.
• EFF - nonprofit organisation defending civil liberties in the digital world.
• PubPeer - online journal club.
• Digital Science - working with researchers, institutions, publishers, and funders to increase efficiency and productivity.
• Open Citations - making citation links easy and free to traverse.

Repositories

• DryadLab - curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
• FigShare - helps academic institutions store, share and manage all of their research outputs.
• Dataverse - open source research data repository.
• DataCite - locate, identify and cite research data.
• Arxiv - open access to pre-prints in physics, maths, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
• BioRxiv - the pre-print server for biology
• Academic Torrents - community maintained distributed repository for datasets and scientific knowledge.
• Open Science Framework - a scholarly commons to connect the entire research cycle.
• Zenodo - open repository for the storage of research material output and doi assignation.

Training

• Data Carpentry - building communities and teaching universal data literacy.
• Software Carpentry - teaching basic lab skills for research computing.
• Open Science: an Introduction - develop the perspective, knowledge, and skills to make research more open.
• Open science training handbook - Open handbook supporting educators of Open Science, including methods, techniques, and practices.
• Foster Open Science - training resources for those who need to know more about Open Science.

Licence

To the extent possible under law, Steph Smith-Unna has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.