TNW Open Science support – TNW-OS-support

Adobe alternatives

What are Open Source solutions to the Adobe products?

OneDrive sharing

You can share data with OneDrive by right clicking on a file and selecting ‘share’.

Supervisor checklist for sharing PhD outputs

This is a short checklist for supervisors of PhD projects that need to share the research outputs related to the PhD dissertation.

Esther Plomp, TUD Data Stewards

Registered Reports

Reproducibility

A registered report is an article format where the study proposal is peer-reviewed before the research is undertaken.

Gold Open Access Journals

This post contains an overview of Gold Open Access journals that TNW/Applied Sciences researchers are publishing in, thanks to data made available by TU Delft library.

Open Methods

Research Data Management

You can share your methodology in dedicated journals or method repositories.

Software Management Plan

Data Management Plan

This post provides an overview of Software Management Plans and related resources.

How to share data?

Where and how to share data? See also the How to share data/code underlying the thesis post?

TU Delft Linux

TU Delft has a Linux User Group:

Software Citation

Software citation is important to receive credit for software outputs and to ensure permanent references to the software.

Codebooks

Research Data Management

This post contains some pointers on how to set up a codebook that accomanies the dataset, which will allow reuse of the data. This summary is based on Horstmann et al. 2020.

Data Security

Research Data Management

Security.tudelft.nl

TU Delft Security Team

Research Data Management 101

Research Data Management

TU Delft Library provides the Research Data Management 101 (RDM101) course via the Central Graduate School.

Metadata

Metadata is data about data.

Esther Plomp, Image: Piotr Kononow

Open Science & Patents

Open Science vs Patents

Open Science Podcasts

This post contains several Open Science podcasts and episodes:

Data visualisation

Research Data Management

This post contains resources related to improving data visualisations in scientific papers, posters and other outputs.

Research Data Management for students

Research Data Management

This post describes 5 pointers for Bachelor/Master students to take into account before and during their research projects:

README files

A README file provides information about data/software and is intended to help ensure that the data/software can be correctly interpreted and used, by yourself or others. A…

4TU.ResearchData

4TU.ResearchData

This post contains general information about the data repository 4TU.ResearchData and how to share your research data/code.

Open Science Programme for PhD candidates of AS/TNW

This course provides PhD candidates from the Faculty of Applied Sciences with essential Open Science knowledge and skills. You will learn to manage your research project…

How to organise inclusive meetings

From the guide to organizing Inclusive Scientific Meetings: Where to Start

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

Qualtrics

NOTE: Qualtrics will be phased out from TU Delft by 1 July 2025!

Excel functionalities

This post highlights several Excel functionalities:

Vevox

Vevox is an audience engagement tool acquired by TU Delft as the campus-wide solution for synchronous (live) polling. This is an alternative to similar tools such as Slido…

Why not supplemental materials?

Why not supplemental materials?

PhD onboarding day - Data Management & Open Science

Research Data Management

Link to the slides of the on-boarding day on the 2nd of Feb 2023.

University rankings

Nederlandse universiteiten gaan voortaan anders om met rankings

Metrics in Academia

Metrics in Academia

How to share data/code underlying the thesis?

How to share your PhD research outputs?

Storage Solutions

Overview of Available Data Storage Solutions during the project’s duration at TU Delft. These storage solutions are primarily for internal use, but can be shared with…

Publishing ethically

How to shift your publishing choices towards publishing in more sustainable/ethical venues:

Open Access Flowchart

Open Access flowchart (or download the image with embedded links):

Data Horrors

Research Data Management

Examples of data horror stories:

Esther Plomp, Andrea Chiarelli, Data Hazards (image)

Contact

Who can you contact for what support?

Article Processing Fees

An Article Processing Charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make their work available as open access. Journal…

Transformative Agreements

Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily…

TU Delft Approved Software Licenses

A brief overview of the TU Delft Approved Software Licenses.

Publishing articles in 2021

This post is based on an earlier blogpost.

Software Resources

Overview of resources related to programming, Python, Git(Hub), Shell and programming communities.

Barriers to data/code sharing

Research Data Management

This post is a summary of the publication by Gomes et al. 2022, on ‘Why don’t we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices’.

Reproducibility resources

Reproducibility

Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim Yet

Majorana fermions

Research Data Management

Reproducibility

Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions.

Open Peer Review

Open Peer Review can refer to various practices, including signing your review, publishing reviews along with the paper, and allowing for the community to contribute to the…

A number is a snake chasing it’s tail

This posts is a summary of the talk given by Deborah Stone for the LIS-Bibliometrics Conference 2022.

Mastdon

One of the social media platforms you can use is Mastodon!

Quarto

This website has been set up using Quarto.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams provides access to ‘Teams’ in which you can share and collaborate on documents and tasks with people. External members can be invited.

CRediT

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a taxonomy of 14 roles. You can use CRediT to describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output.

DORA

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

Open Science & Inclusion

This posts lists several resources regarding inclusion gaps in the scientific landscape.

Open Science - 3 easy things

FAQ

This page contains 11 frequently asked questions (FAQ) regarding Open Science:

Open Science & Alt text

Alt text is a text alternative defined for images. Here are some starting resources:

Peer review flaws

The peer review process does not successfully keep out bad science.

Open Science at Applied Sciences

“The Faculty of Applied Sciences supports Open Science principles as openness is increasingly crucial to resolve major challenges of our time in which our faculty aims to be…

Open Science Panic

Your first time trying out a new Open Science step can be nerve wrecking. You are not alone in feeling this way:

Spreadsheets

Research Data Management

Spreadsheets are great for certain purposes, but there are some things you need to keep in mind!

Data Preservation - What to keep?

Research Data Management

What data should you preserve for the long term?

Data versioning

Research Data Management

This post provides information about versioning files.

Open Science in different disciplines

This post contains several examples that could be of relevance to TNW researchers

PhD Chapter

Why just have an article or traditional chapter as part of your PhD dissertation? Why not use a dataset, software package or public engagement example as part of your…

Data Management Plan - PhDs at TU Delft

Data Management Plan

When do you need to set up a Data Management Plan as a PhD candidate at TU Delft/TNW?

Artificial Intelligence at TU Delft

TU Delft hosts several initiatives related to Artificial Intelligence:

Preprint

A preprint is the version of the article before peer review.

Reproducibility checklist

Reproducibility

This post is a shortened version of the Agile Reproducibility Checklist for articles that you would like to submit (or review).

Data organisation

Research Data Management

SURFdrive sharing

You can share data with SURFdrive through the 1) browser or the 2) application.

Mistakes

Error Tight – Exercises for lab groups to prevent research mistakes

Metadata standards and repositories for Applied Sciences/TNW

Research Data Management

Managing and Sharing Data in 2021

Data Management Plan

This post is based on an earlier blogpost.

Digital Competence Center

TU Delft has a Digital Competence Center (DCC) which consists of four Research Software Engineers, two Data Managers and a High Performance Computing Data Steward.

Data Documentation

Research Data Management

Documentation is important to understand the data/code. This post provides information about documentation, file naming and metadata.

Open Science Buffet

Open Science is like a buffet*: take what you can and what benefits you now – come back for more!

Open Science

Open Science is the movement to make scientific research and its outputs more accessible and transparently available, allowing a wider range of contributions that will…

Data Citation

A dataset citation includes all of the same components as any other citation:

Data Management Costs

Research Data Management

In general TU Delft storage and sharing solutions should be sufficient for standard research Data Management needs. You can consider the costs of the following:

Evidenced based CVs

A narrative CV is a description of one’s academic profile. It can capturee a much wider range of contributions, skills, and experiences compared to traditional CVs which…

Good enough FAIR software

How to make your software good enough FAIR? Post based on presentation by Neil Chue Hong.

Backup Project Data Storage

Research Data Management

This post describes how to automatically and manually backup files from the Project Data Storage to a local drive.

ORCID

Data Management Plan - 5 things to check

Data Management Plan

As part of the Go/No-Go of a PhD a Data Management Plan is required (PhDs that started after 1st of January 2020).

FAIR principles

The FAIR principles were created in order to maximize the reuse of scientific data, to promote best practices on Research Data Management and to enable Open Science.…

Esther Plomp, Paula Martinez-Lavanchy, Pim van Schöll, Eirini Zormpa

ORCID - PURE integration

How to set up a Pure – ORCID integration:

Publishing a Data Article

This post has been adapted from the Turing Way (The Turing Way Community, The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science. 10.5281/zenodo.3233853) and a blogpost on…

Data Management Plan templates and guidance

Data Management Plan

A data management plan (DMP) is a document that describes:

What data to share?

Research data refers to all data created in the course of research and includes source code, algorithms, simulations and models, experimental notes (paper or digital)…

Publish and profit

This post contains several resources on how publishers are generating wild amounts of profit from academic publishing.

When not to share data/code

The following types of data/code may not be suitable to share:

Why share data?

Prevent data loss/unfindable files

Transferring ownership of a GitLab repo

This guide on transferring ownership of a GitLab repo has been set up by Lora Armstrong.

Esther Plomp, Lora Armstrong

Sharing Software

Accelerates innovation as it is easier to receive feedback that you can learn from and use to improve the software

Git workflow

Licenses

Licenses are a standardised way to share data/code and let anyone know what it is that they are allowed to do with it. If you share your research without a license, you are…

Rights Retention Strategy

Rights Retention Strategy was initiated by cOAlition S to ensure that the researchers they fund can publish Open Access, but is a strategy that can be applied by any…

Software documentation

How should you provide adequate documentation with your code to make it understandable for reusers?

Copyright free resources

This blogpost contains links to resources that can be freely reused.

Encryption

Research Data Management

Encryption provides protection by ensuring that only someone with the relevant encryption key (or password) will be able to access the contents.

Backup

Research Data Management

To avoid losing your data, you should follow recommended backup practices:

Access Project Data Storage

This post describes how to access the Project Data Storage on your computer and how to access it outside of the TU Delft network.

Esther Plomp, Lora Armstrong, Bjørn Bartholdy

Open Access

A post with some post and resources on Open Access.

Data sharing solutions

Overview of available data sharing solutions after the project. These solutions are publicly accessible and not suitable for any confidential data/code.

Physical Samples

Research Data Management

To make your research more reproducible, it can help to manage (and share) the physical samples you use in your research.