A fundamental feature of science is reproducibility and having study methods and data openly available enables researchers to replicate and verify their results. It is not just making methodologies fully open, they need to be fully documented and placed in a location that is accessible.
Open methodologies are concerned…
Open Alex (the name Alex comes from the ancient Library of Alexandria) is a not for profit tool used to open up research for all. It is a free to use dataset containing over 250 million scholarly works. Unlike subscription databases it contains works from all over the globe, not…
VeriXiv (pronounced Very-Kive) is a newly launched preprint server, through a collaboration between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and F1000 publishers. The main drive from the BMGF to create this platform is to align with their new open access policy. From the 1st January 2025, the Foundation…
Open Research Services have produced a series of PDF guides to five main areas of Open Research:
Pre Registration and registered reports
Data Verification
Open Code and software
Preprints
Citizen Science
These provide an overview of each activity. The LAORS is planning a series of introductory training sessions which will…
OA Mythbusters is a fantastic short video series from the Open Access Books Network (OABN) community. Each video clip, lasting no more than 8 minutes, seeks to dispel common myths surrounding the publishing of open access books.
Episodes released cover false beliefs about issues with third-party material, not having…
P-Hacking or data dredging is the practice of analyzing data until you find the results needed to back up your hypothesis. However, in many cases this practice is unintentional and researchers follow the P-hacking route without fully realizing they are doing it.
The scientific method is built…
All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things Stephanie Kwolek
This is a ‘new’ blog focussing on all things Open Research. The blog started on SharePoint for an internal LSHTM audience but has moved over to it’s more…
Even though it is the bank holiday this coming Monday, there is no need to hang around outside as the Library is open. Our opening hours during the Bank Holiday Monday are 11:00 am to 5:pm for staff and students only. Any visitors are welcome during core working…
