Act II · Recommendations and practices for open and reproducbile research

Scene 2 · Data/coding practices and tools

Learning outcomes…

• [RRP05] Organise a research project to facilitate reproducibility, openness and reuse.

• [RRP06] Contrast the main families of licences for software and data.

Content…

• We discuss practices and recommendations to get started with reproducibility

• We introduce and compare types of licences

Organisation & materials

[Estimated time: 4 hours]

There are excellent practical guides with general recommendations for promoting reproducibility, research data management and open science. This week we’ll take a look at three guides for open science and reproducible research.

1. The British Ecological Society publishes brief guidelines for conducting open science. Read the guide Reproducible code (Cooper and Hsing 2019), which explains organizational aspects focused on ecology but applicable to any discipline.

2. Read Passport for Open Science: A Practical Guide for PhD Students (Berti et al. 2022), it explains how to develop doctoral research in line with the principles of open science. The proposed practices are applicable to any discipline and, although focused on doctoral students, they are aimed at any researcher regardless of their previous experience.

3. The Turing Way is the third resource or guide which indeed is a compendium of guides on open science, reproducibility, and research ethics. The Guide for Reproducible Research (The Turing Way Community 2019) is relevant, particularly the Licensing section.

   As part of the Open Knowledge Portal, the UJI library includes guides for researchers about the open access dissemination of the results of the investigation, and copyright and licenses. Key steps towards open and transparent science have been:

   • October 2020 institutional statement to promote open access Declaración institucional a favor de la promoción del acceso abierto en la Universitat Jaume I;
   • End 2022 Código de Buenas Prácticas en Investigación y Doctorado (CBPID);
   • March 2023 adhesion to the COaRa Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).

4. “During: Data/coding practices and tools” (slides) summarises some of the organizational aspects and reproducible practices for the preparation and first steps of a project.

Assignments

• To continue with the Reproduction Plan, identify per each assessment criteria which practices and recommendations you can adopt (or have already adopted) to increase the level of reproducibility of your next paper.