Researchers: why choose open research

Friday, 11 May 2018

Open research can make it easier for others to discover your work.

Becoming an open researcher means sharing your research so that others can read, use, re-use and build upon your work. 

This approach is gaining momentum as research funders, institutions and researchers seek to make their methods, materials, data, software and results easily discoverable and accessible to maximise the pace of discovery.

Making your research open means that members of the public can gain access to your research as well as interested researchers, students and commercial companies, potentially increasing the impact and reach of your work and boosting citations. An open research approach may also help to alleviate the perceived reproducibility crisis.

The University Library recently published a detailed blog post on how to make your research outputs and data more open through steps such as creating an ORCiD identifier, depositing your research in CentAUR and considering your research data management – please take a look to find out more. 

For further information please contact Karen Rowlett, Research Publications Adviser.