Introduction to the Open Research Book
Background
The source materials for book were 15 scripts for videos that were produced at Oxford Brookes to introduce basic topics in Open Research. We followed an outline shared in image we first encountered care of Anton Muszanskyj. (If you know where it came from please let us know.)
We followed the high-level outline breaking the sections down into open Infrastructure, Methods, Communities, and Knowledge. In some cases we combined some of the topics into one script, but in general we followed the lower-level outline as well. The hope is that this can be used as a starting point for further improvements.
Quick tour
Have a look around via the menu at left. You’ll notice that most of the talks include some Oxford Brookes specific pointers towards the end. These are flagged in a box as “⚠ Practice Example”. Other related practices may be in place at other institutions.
Next steps
Our hope is that these materials will be revised in whatever way makes them most useful. This partly means adapting the infrastructure to our needs. Demo contents have been prepared using the Franklin static site generator to produce a copy for the web, and Pandoc to produce a PDF, but the initial drafts were revised on Google Docs and we could return to that format. It also means using methods that are suitable for our community. Tomlinson et al. (2012) describe the experience of large-scale co-authoring: we may want something more traditional, with section editors. We may want to expand on the materials here with short descriptions of the courses that were delivered within the UKRN’s Train the Trainer programme, with reference to the associated https://www.ukrn.org/training-schema/. We may want to use this resource to collect further advice on the practicalities of delivering training at our institutions. For now, have a browse through and get in touch with any ideas!
Reference
Tomlinson, B., Ross, J., André, P., et al. 2012. Massively distributed authorship of academic papers. CHI’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 11–20.
Last modified: January 14, 2025.