awesome-open-science
github.com/maurice-schleussinger/awesome-open-science ↗A curated list of information, resources and tools about Open Science, Open Access and Open Research Data 🔬 💻 📥.
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Systems and Standards
- A short lecture on Open LicensingLicenses
- Choose an open source licenseLicenses
Pick a suitable license for your code ✨
- Creative CommonsLicenses
Licenses for all kind of open content including publications, educational resources and research data. Not for computer code. ✨
- DOIPersistent Identifier
The most common persistent document identifier. ✨
- ORCHIDPersistent Identifier
Unique Author Identification. ✨
Tools
- Awesome Research List on Github
An overview of useful tools for (open) research in a similar fashion to this list.
- B2Drop
- European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
Newly launched portal of the European Open Science Cloud with free-of-charge access to various services. Services are accessible via an institutional login or various login provides (ORCID, Github, etc.).
- oaDOI
Find open-access versions of papers.
- Overleaf
Create papers in LaTeX with colleagues online. ✨
- Recommended Tools by the RDA
The Research Data Alliance lists a number of tools similar to this overview.
Information and Guides
- B2Find (EOSC)Find Open Science Content
Search over 690,000 datasets from European research as well as external datasets.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsFind Open Science Content
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Over 3 mio. articles from over 11 000 journals.
- forschungsdaten.infoResearch Data
The growing information platform for everything RDM in Germany. 🇩🇪
- FOSTERGeneral
An e-learning platform featuring material over a wide range of topics including RDM, Open Access & Open Data. Funded by the
- Open Science ManifestoGeneral
- Registry of Research Data RepositoriesFind Open Science Content
By offering detailed information on more than 2,000 research data repositories, Re3data has become the most comprehensive source of reference for research data infrastructures globally.
Repositories
- CiteAbDiscipline-specific
The International Cell Line Authentication Committee.
- Data DryadMultidisciplinary
Nonprofit, curated repository for publications and accompanying research data. Upload data sets up to 20GB free of
- Data.govMultidisciplinary
The Open Data portal of the United States. ✨
- GenBankDiscipline-specific
An annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
- Open Science FrameworkMultidisciplinary
Open Access to research project over the entire research life cycle. Uses third-party storage such as Dropbox or Github as well as internal storage. Upload data sets up to 5GB (internal storage) and assign free DOIs. Funded by the
- SEEKDiscipline-specific
A systems biology data and model management platform.
Organizations
- DINI
non-profit association 🇩🇪
- Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).
- Open Knowledge Foundation
An independent organization pushing open access to knowledge in all areas of life
Events
- Open Access Days
Annually meeting, organized by German, Swiss and Austrian universities and libraries. Features keynotes & workshops mostly in German.
Showing a sample of 36 resources. View the full list on GitHub →