Blockchain, Künstliche Intelligenz und Big Data – dieses Sachbuch erklärt Ihnen leicht verständlich und auch für Leser*innen ohne technische oder medizinische Vorkenntnisse, die Zusammenhänge und zeigt die Möglichkeiten und Vorteile sogenannter disruptiver Technologien für die...

The She Figures Handbook (2018) provides methodological guidance on the calculation of indicators included in the She Figures 2018 publication, the sixth iteration of the European Commission's She Figures publication since the release of its seminal version in 2003. Organised by data source,...

This case study reports activities performed by Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international grassroots organisation that promotes international collaboration and global sharing mechanisms to remove social and technical barriers to research data sharing and reuse. Drivers, impacts and barriers...

This case study reports on the work of the Utrecht University's Open Science task force, and discusses the most recent formulation of the UU Open Science Programme (version 1.0). Identification of barriers, impacts and lessons learnt from the programme provide examples of good practice and...

This case study will focus on the use of citizen science methods in the surveillance and monitoring of mosquitos in the Global Mosquito Alert project and more specific national projects such as the Spanish Mosquito Alert project. It will identify the key organisations behind the projects and the...

The scientific community have started to foster research practices that seek to overcome p-hacking. One of such practices includes the preregistration of studies, which seeks to reduce the publication bias for statistically significant results. Preregistration makes researchers commit to...

Opening up research processes and making the research cycle transparent are essential requirements of Open Science. This does not only involve an interoperable research infrastructure, which centres around researchers, their works and their respective affiliations, but also those institutions...

In this case study, we will study who are the actual users of Mendeley, what they use Mendeley for and what is the predominance of Open Access publications among Mendeley users. This will help us in trying to understand who are the users of Mendeley, and what are the groups of users that benefit...

This case study explores the reasons behind this limited uptake, identifying the drivers that can be exploited and the impact that ELNs are having on research practices and open science. Finally, the case study will discuss what has to be considered in the future to help increase the uptake of...