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A curated list of tools, platforms, resources, and communities that promote Open Science, emphasizing transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, and open access in research and scientific practices.

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General ResourcesOpen Access PlatformsOpen Data RepositoriesOpen Source Research ToolsReproducibility and Collaboration ToolsCitizen Science PlatformsEducational ResourcesAdvocacy and OrganizationsCommunity and Forums

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Open Access Platforms

  • arXiv

    A preprint repository for physics, mathematics, computer science, and more.

  • bioRxiv

    A preprint repository for biology.

  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

    A directory of peer-reviewed, open-access journals.

  • PubMed Central

    A free digital repository of biomedical and life sciences literature.

  • Zenodo

    A repository for sharing and preserving research outputs, hosted by CERN.

Reproducibility and Collaboration Tools

  • Binder

    A tool to make research repositories interactive and reproducible.

  • Code Ocean

    A platform for sharing and executing research code.

  • Overleaf

    A collaborative tool for writing and publishing scientific papers.

  • Protocol.io

    A platform for sharing and following research protocols.

  • ResearchGate

    A platform for sharing research outputs and collaboration.

Citizen Science Platforms

  • Citizen Science Alliance

    A network supporting citizen science initiatives.

  • Foldit

    A game where players solve puzzles to help scientists study protein folding.

  • iNaturalist

    A platform for crowdsourcing biodiversity observations.

  • Planet Hunters

    A project for discovering exoplanets through citizen science.

  • Zooniverse

    A platform for crowdsourced scientific research projects.

Advocacy and Organizations

  • Creative Commons

    Licensing tools for open sharing of research outputs.

  • Force11

    A community advancing scholarly communication through Open Science.

  • OpenAIRE

    An infrastructure supporting open-access policies and practices.

  • Open Knowledge Foundation

    A global network promoting open knowledge and science.

  • SPARC

    An organization advocating for open access, data, and education.

Educational Resources

Open Data Repositories

General Resources

Open Source Research Tools

  • GNU Octave

    An open-source tool for numerical computations.

  • Jupyter Notebooks

    An open-source tool for interactive computational research.

  • OpenRefine

    A tool for cleaning and transforming research data.

  • PLOS Computational Biology

    A journal promoting open computational biology tools and resources.

  • RStudio

    A popular IDE for R, widely used in data science and research.

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