A selection of some of the more common open research tools that every psychology librarian should be familiar with.
Open Discovery
Google Scholar
Google’s index for scholarly literature, although not all results will be academic, peer reviewed articles.
Unpaywall
Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories
RIO: Research Ideas and Outcomes
Journal which publishes research ideas and outputs such as grant applications, workflows, data management plans, wikipedia articles, and conference abstracts.
Open Annotation
Hypothes.is
A browser extension for collaborative web annotation.
Open Notebooks
Open Lab Notebooks
Repository for lab notebooks.
Shapira & Harding (2019). Open Laboratory Notebooks
Abstract Excerpt: The fundamental goal of the growing open science movement is to increase the efficiency of the global scientific community and accelerate progress and discoveries for the common good. Central to this principle is the rapid disclosure of research outputs in open-access peer-reviewed journals and on pre-print servers. The next bold step in this direction is open laboratory notebooks, where research scientists share their research — including detailed protocols, negative and positive results — online and in near-real-time to synergize with their peers. Here, we highlight the benefits of open lab notebooks to science, society and scientists, and discuss the challenges that this nascent movement is facing. We also present the implementation and progress of our own initiative at openlabnotebooks.org, with more than 20 active contributors after one year of operation.
Open Computational Notebooks
Jupyter Lab & Notebook
The lab is a web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter notebooks, code, and data. The notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
Code Ocean
A platform for computational reproducibility that allows users to create, collaborate on, and run code using any open source language as well as MATLAB and Stata. Researchers can run and reproduce work from any web browser without needing to install any hardware or software.
Open Protocols
Protocols.io
An open-access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines. Users can create private or public repositories to create, manage, and share any step-by-step process.
Open Registration
OSFRegistries
An open repository of pre-registrations for experimental science. Pre-registrations do not need to be discipline or subject-specific and can follow a number of templates.
AsPredicted
Platform for creating a time stamped pre-registration by answering nine questions.
Open Data Repositories
Dataverse
Open source research data repository software
Dryad
Open source, community driven platform for data publication and digital preservation.
Zenodo
A general-purpose open-access repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN.
Figshare
An open repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable.
Open Code and Software
Github
A platform for hosting for software development and version control using Git.
Bitbucket
Git code management that allows teams to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy.
Open Writing
Open Publishing: Preprint Servers
BioRxiv
Preprint server for biology
PsyArXiv
Preprint server for psychology
OSF Preprints
An open preprint repository. Preprints do not need to be from a specific subject or discipline.
Open/Alt Peer Review
PubPeer
Online platform for open post-publication peer review.
Open/Alt Assessment of Scholarly Works
Altmetric
Alternative metrics for measuring engagement with scholarly content.
PlumX Metrics
"PlumX Metrics provide insights into the ways people interact with individual pieces of research output (articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and many more) in the online environment. Examples include, when research is mentioned in the news or is tweeted about. Collectively known as PlumX Metrics, these metrics are divided into five categories to help make sense of the huge amounts of data involved and to enable analysis by comparing like with like."
