Open Research

There are a wide range of training resources relating to open research. Our standard introductory training courses cover best practice in research data management, data management planning, and open access for publications. This training is delivered through Moodle and Zoom and can be delivered in person on request. See our Training page for more information. 

The University of Glasgow is participating in the UK Reproducibility Network Open Research Programme.  A Team from the University will coordinate the train the trainer programme and assess open research training tools and resources.   More details will be shared as activity gets underway. 

 If you are looking for support in a particular area, and you can’t find it here, please get in touch with us. 

The Research Data Management service collects examples of Open Research practice at the University of Glasgow. Below you can read case studies of the examples we have gathered so far: 

• Research Data Management in Ethical Consumption
• Research Data Management in Natural History
• Open Research in Psychology
• Working in the Psychological Science Accelerator 
• Incorporating Open Research in grant applications - the path to an ERC Consolidator Award

If you are engaged in research and creating or working with open data and would be interested in contributing to a case study, please get in touch at research-datamanagement@glasgow.ac.uk. 

All publications and theses should include a data accessibility/availability statement which explains where the data which support the publication can be found. Data accessibility statements should include a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which directs readers to a record for the dataset in a repository. This way, a dataset can be cited correctly even if the data themselves are not suitable for sharing. If no data is available, a data accessibility statement should indicate this. A good data statement should also include the terms on which the data are made available. 

Please note that an instruction to contact the author directly would not be considered acceptable by most research funders – authors should create a record for a dataset in an appropriate repository and direct readers there. 

Your journal or publisher’s guidance for authors should indicate the format and placement of a data access statement. If no ‘Data access’ or ‘Data availability’ section is specified, we suggest placing your statement in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section. 

For examples of data statements, please see our guide to identifiers and citation. 

There is an Open Research Coordination Group. This group is working to set up a network of open research champions and discussion channels. More information will be posted here soon.   

Glasgow Open Journals is a service provided by the University of Glasgow Library that supports the publication of academic and student-led open access journals. 

Glasgow Open Journals is based on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. This service is provided free of charge to University of Glasgow staff and students. 

The University of Glasgow provides Protocols.io premium accounts for all students and staff. 

Protocols.io is an online platform for the creation, management, and sharing of research protocols or methods. Users can create new protocols within the system or upload existing methods and digitise them. Those with access to a protocol can then update, annotate, or fork it so that it can be continually improved and developed.

Users can publish their protocols making them freely available for others to use and cite or, with the enterprise version, keep them private. The tool supports the Open Research agenda by helping to ensure that methods used to produce data and publications are made available, assisting with reproducibility. 

You can view a recording of an introductory webinar on Protocols.io at the University of Glasgow.