From principle to practice

Open science is not all-or-nothing — you can adopt it step by step:

  • Publish open — gold or green (you learned how in Enhancing & Promoting Your Research).
  • Share data and code with a DOI and licence.
  • Post preprints to share results early.
  • Try open peer review and pre-registration where your field supports it.
  • Use and make OER — open educational resources (like these FRELIP courses).
Worked example — one researcher’s open workflow
Before submitting, she posts a preprint on arXiv; on acceptance she deposits the manuscript (green OA) and the data (with a DOI); she links it all to her ORCID. Her work is open, credited, and reproducible — and reached readers months before formal publication.

🔗 Learn more (free): arXiv — a major open preprint server

Try it
Pick one open-science habit from the list above that you could realistically start this year. What is your first step?

Self-check

Name two open-science practices an individual researcher can adopt without changing the whole system.

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