Helping with your open research

Learning about different open research practices helps researchers understand what could work well in their context. Below, our researchers share ideas to help you to make your research processes and outputs more open. Scroll through the articles below to learn more.

Open Research as a foundation of innovation

Open Research is a foundation of both academic and industrial innovation, maximizing economic impact. This is because they enable collaboration and the creation of innovation ecosystems which deliver novel technological products and services.

Open Access, copyright, and rights retention in the UK: a retrospective of the last 25 years

Open Access has developed considerably over the last 25 years. This article covers everything from Author Addendums through to institutional rights retention strategies.

Revisiting the moral foundations of Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property (IP) offers protection and control to both individual creators and to corporations, but we cannot ignore that the moral foundations of IP systems often benefit the powerful at the expense of the public good.

Using open research for shared approaches in the arts and humanities: some hidden gems

The Open University’s Open Research Data Online repository is full of hidden gems such as data, images, articles and presentations, to help you build your knowledge base. Read about three hidden gems in the Arts and Humanities.

The Importance of open research or open science for achieving sustainable development goals

Open research has enormous potential for progressing the Sustainable Development Goals. Read the case for investing in open research practices in international development.

Open Research in Artificial Intelligence: A personal account of the long view

Read about the trends that have dominated Dialogue Script Generation in Artificial Intelligence over 20 years.