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Rethinking science together. The future is Open Science.
The Open Science Magazine invites you to discover science in the digital age: new, modern, future-oriented. Every month we propose new perspectives, articles, podcasts and work sheets around Open Science to inspire you. Let us learn, grow and advance together.

Open Science Award Winners: Insights and Findings From a Pioneering Practice
An Interview with Ronny Röwert

New in the Open Economics Guide
Open up Teaching With Open Educational Resources

Excellence in data education
Understanding the future: Expert insights from BERD Academy – An interview with Markus Herklotz

Didactics Meets Openness
Malika Ihle allows a glimpse behind the scenes of the LMU Open Research Hybrid Summer School 2023

More than just copying
How Replication Games are revolutionising research and education

Generation O: the progressive avant-garde of Open Science shapers
Open Science for newbies: practical steps to a world of openness and collaboration

The effects of incentive systems in the academic world on the quality of science
Scientific transparency and appreciation: the key to creating a more sustainable and more objective research landscape

Qualitative research can be reproduced
Ingo Rohlfing talks about his experience with Open Science

The problem of reproducibility in economics
Assistance for economic researchers: How to make your research reproducible

Open Science training must be integrated into ongoing research
Joachim Winter talks about his experience with Open Science

Meet the international science elite with crowd science
Felix Holzmeister talks about his experience with Open Science

Reciprocal critique is only possible in reproducible research
Jakob Kapeller talks about his experience with Open Science

Business studies needs a discussion about quantified uncertainty
Marko Sarstedt talks about his experience with Open Science

Open Science in Practice
What is the status in Business studies and Economics?

For me Open Science means communication
Peter Haan talks about his experience with Open Science

Openness is good for your career
Dr Aleksandar Zaklan talks about his experience with Open Science

Pre-registrations are the path to the future
Andreas Dür talks about his experience with Open Science

Greater Dissemination Thanks to Open Access
EconStor for Publications in Economics and Business studies

Recognizing Reputable Journals and Publishers
How Think. Check. submit. Helps you With Your Publication

Open Science and the trust of the public in science
Two studies test if transparency in research creates public trust

Increase the visibility of your own data
How can I give more visibility on the web to my data?

All about the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
Part 2: What is the ZBW’s contribution to BERD@NFDI?

All about the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
Part 3: What is the ZBW’s contribution to KonsortSWD?

“We need a whole new kind of infrastructure in business studies”
Professor Florian Stahl, speaker of BERD@NFDI, explains the importance of unstructured data in business studies

Open classrooms enable inspirational teaching
Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich talks about her experience with Open Science

How economists can study machine learning methods by playing
Bernd Bischl talks about Open Science, research software and the machine learning platform OpenML

The Big Shots of business studies should be role models for Open Science
Stefan Mayer talks about his experience with Open Science

Open Science is a matter of cooperation
Joachim Gassen talks about his experience with Open Science

Don’t be afraid of public code
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker talks about his experience with Open Science

How an Open Science agenda for a discipline is created
Tobias Dienlin talks about his experience with Open Science

From the replication to the job interview
Andreas Peichl talks about his experience with Open Science

The Open Science principles help reduce the probability of false results
Anne-Laure Boulesteix talks about statistics and her experience with Open Science

Business studies must become more scientific
Peter Walgenbach talks about Open Science in business studies

How young scientists can be sensitised to Open Science
Andreas Beyerlein talks about his teaching experience with Open and Reproducible Science

Open Science must not become a mere rulebook
Hans-Bernd Brosius talks about science communication and Open Science

Dr Ulf Steinberg talks about his experience with Open Science
Ulf Steinberg talks about his experience with Open Science

Stop Tracking Science
How academic publishers use usage statistics for their own purposes

New: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE)
The Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) is the successor of the International Journal for Re-views in Empirical Economics (IREE) and starts now!

Sharing research data is beneficial especially for pre-doctoral researchers
Moritz Appels talks about his experience with Open Science

Why Open Science can be a future selling point
Professor Dominik Vogel talks about his experience with Open Science

Replications are the most direct way to join a discourse
Martin Sievert talks about his experience with Open Science

Make a positive impression with preregistration
Dr Florian Pethig talks about his experience with Open Science

Generating new economic knowledge with co-creative processes
Dr Svenja Flechtner talks about her experience with Open Science

Finding literature with EconBiz
Gaining access not only to Open Access publications

Frequent exchange with non-scientists enables research to be more relevant
Professor Dorothea Kübler talks about science communication and Open Science

Practical Open Science tips for download III
The e-training plan for more Open Science in daily routine

Practical Open Science tips for download II
The e-dossier für science communication with Social Media

Practical Open Science tips for download I
The e-dossier for economic practice

Contribute to the economic and social policy debate in Europe
Publishing in the economic policy Journal Intereconomics

Make your voice heard in economic policy debate
Publishing in the economic policy Journal Wirtschaftsdienst

I want to show that economics is cool
Dr Agne Kajackaite talks about her experience with Open Science

How networking within the Open Science community supports your own research
Dr Caroline Fischer talks about her experience with Open Science

Publishing papers on EconStor
EconStor is the ZBW’s repository which offers research literature in Open Access and makes it findable through various portals and search engines.

Open Science is a driver of societal changes
Professor Elke Schüßler talks about her experience with Open Science

Open Science can lead to “Feed Forward” mechanisms in research
Dr Ali Aslan Gümüsay talks about his experience with Open Science

It must become easier to publish insignificant results because they show courage
Professor Urs Fischbacher talks about his Open Science vision

Critical questioning pays off for your career in the end
Dr Maren Duvendack talks about her experience with Open Science

Scholarly communities must run their own journals
Professor Jochen Koch talks about his experience with Open Science

Publishing replications in the International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics (IREE)
IREE is the first journal in economics dedicated to the publication of replication studies.

Qualitative data are shareable
Dr Isabel Steinhardt talks about her experience with Open Science

Open Science needs infrastructures
Dr Marc Scheufen talks about his Open Science insights

To do Open Science means to break new ground
Professor Thomas Gegenhuber talks about his experience with Open Science

The sharing of teaching concepts creates (inter)national awareness
Dr Maximilian Heimstädt talks about his experience with Open Science

Open Science can improve the quality of research
Professor Gerald Schneider talks about his experience with Open Science

Open Science takes the stress out of PhD supervision
Professor Susann Fiedler talks about her experience with Open Science

Open science needs open evaluation
PRACTICAL GUIDE 12: Assessing researchers with regard to Open Science

The opinion of your peers matters
PRACTICAL GUIDE 11: A different way of evaluating research

Where to house your data well and safely
PRACTICAL GUIDE 10: How to disseminate your data well

Earn credit for your research data
PRACTICAL GUIDE 9: Making research data available

How to make sure that others can read your papers
PRACTICAL GUIDE 8: Dissemination of your publications in Open Access

Write it down today so you can reuse it in the years to come
PRACTICAL GUIDE 7: Working reproducibly: for yourself, for others

How to keep track of your research data
PRACTICAL GUIDE 6: Planning data management

Where to find literature without paywalls
PRACTICAL GUIDE 5: Using freely accessible resources

Science communication with social media
PRACTICAL GUIDE 4: Risks and how to manage them

Science communication with social media
PRACTICAL GUIDE 2: The choice of the proper tools

Open Access increases the impact and the visibility of research
Dr Bettina Höchli talks about her experience with Open Science

Generation O: Openness is the way to go
Open Science as the “new normal” after the crisis?

Openness is now the rule for big invitations to tender for research
Dr Tom Brown talks about his experience with Open Science

Open Science requires and fosters international networking
Professor Michael Kirchler talks about his experience with Open Science

Openness facilitates the acquisition of third-party funding
Professor Leonhard Dobusch talks about his experience with Open Science

Organise knowledge transfer efficiently
Questions you should clarify before your next presentation

Open Source ensures visibility
Dr Wolf-Peter Schill talks about his experience with Open Science

Open Science opens many doors
Professor Jürgen Huber talks about his experience with crowd analysis projects

More visibility after conferences
How you can prolong your visibility beyond the actual event

Practise your elevator pitch for networking at conferences
Worksheet 11: How you can practise your pitch with friends & family

Future trend connectivity
Trends in science communication as exemplified by Open Science

Replication studies and their value for society
Why economists should do more replication studies

Publishing insignificant results
Worksheet 10: How to save your time, nerves and money with pre-registration

Replications are hard work that pays off
Professor Jörg Peters talks about his experience with Open Science

ZBW study on Open Economics
Results of an empirical study of transparency and openness in the everyday working lives of economists

Let society share in scientific knowledge
Professor Harald Oberhofer talks about his experience with Open Science

We profs need to be role models for Open Science
Professor Uwe Cantner talks about his Open Science vision

Open Access increases the range of influence
Dr Nadine Schlömer-Laufen and Dr Stefan Schneck talk about their experience with Open Science

Opening up space for exciting collaboration
Work sheet 9: How you can invite others to collaborate with Open Science

Open Science as a catalyst for your career in research
Work sheet 8: Where you can communicate your openness

Become visible through transparent data
Work sheet 7: How you can publish your research data

Open Science is the future
Professor Gunter Friedl talks about his experience with Open Data

Finding ears to listen beyond the boundaries of research
Dr Judith Kohlenberger talks about her experience with Open Science

International exchange through Open Access publications
Dr Sebastian Wichert (ifo) talks about his experience with Open Science

Technical skills and openness go together
Dr Nikos Askitas talks about his experience with Open Science

Reaching the top of national and international research with Open Source
Professor Claudia Kemfert talks about her experience with Open Science

What the Open Science movement can learn from the Covid-19 crisis
Interview with Professor Isabella Peters

Make your pre-print accessible
Work sheet 6: How to present your pre-print to your peers

Connect paper and analysis efficiently
Work sheet 5: How to organise your research from the beginning

Make your data sustainable
Work sheet 4: How to upload your data to an online repository

Speed up publishing with an ORCID ID
Work sheet 3: How to save time with automatic standardised information

Improve your research with preregistration
Work sheet 2: How to document decisions systematically

Increase your visibility
Work sheet 1: How to be more visible to your peers and funders
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