Open Science promote a more collaborative and transparent approach to scientific research, which can ultimately lead to more reliable and impactful findings.
Here are a few reasons why researchers should openly share their data:
Reproducibility: Sharing research data allows other researchers to reproduce and verify the findings of a study. This is an important aspect of scientific research, as it helps to ensure the reliability and validity of the results.
Collaboration: Sharing research data allows other researchers to build upon existing research, leading to new discoveries and insights. This can help to advance scientific knowledge more quickly and efficiently.
Transparency: Sharing research data promotes transparency in the scientific process, allowing others to see how the research was conducted and how the data was analyzed.
Resource efficiency: Sharing research data can help to avoid duplication of effort and resources, as other researchers can reuse the data for their own studies.
Zenodo is an open research portal founded to capture the outputs of European Commission-funded research.
Zenodo can be used to share data in any file format. All publicly available uploads receive a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) making your data sharable and uniquely citable.
The University has it's own Zenodo Collection available at https://zenodo.org/communities/uobolton. Researchers can submit data files to be added to our collection - please see the Curation Policy on our Zenodo Collection page for guidance.
Papers, journal articles, theses and presentations should be submitted to UBIR rather than our Zenodo Collection - which is primarily intended for datasets.
There are many other services and platforms where researchers can share their outputs. Examples are listed below, though this is not intended as an exhaustive list.
Before choosing a platform to share your data or outputs, check terms, licences and other conditions of use to ensure the platform is a good choice for your needs.
