For this discussion you were required to read Seven easy steps to open science: an annotated reading list and The benefits of an open-science approach in student research projects.
Discuss with your peers what you understood and what is still unclear and ask us to clarify the less clear points!
Note that the paper is a few years old and now we tend to talk about Open Research and Open Scholarship, rather than Open Science, to be more inclusive.
You can use the following prompts to check your understanding.
What has pushed the need for Open Research? Why do we need Open Research?
Are Open Access and Open Research the same thing?
A research compendium is the set of files, data, code, etc. of a study. In your opinion, in which cases should the research compendium be made openly available? Or, what could prevent researcher from sharing the research compendium?
You have learnt about reproducibility and replicability earlier in the course. Which role do they play in making research “open”?
What is a pre-registration? What is a Registered Report? How can they help making research more robust?
Think about research papers you have read. Did they use Open Research practices? Were they pre-registered or Registered Reports? Did they share their data?
How can we make Open Research practices more common?