Open Science for Health Sciences

Introduction

The adoption of open science  practices in health sciences is associated with many challenges, such as the lack of awareness, skills, resources, and infrastructure for research data management, as well as the complexity of legal and ethical considerations related to research data sharing.

To support university and research libraries, as well as all trainers working with researchers and students in health sciences, EIFL has compiled a training programme outline that can be used to develop training about the implementation of open science practices in health sciences.

 

How can librarians use this resource?

This resource is divided into six sections: Introduction to Open Science, FAIR and open data, Open research tools and resources, Communicating research, Citizen Science, Responsible research and ethics.

Each section gives an overview of the topic, what the trainer should cover, and what the learner should gain by the end of the training. Each topic includes “Resources for facilitators and learners”, with useful material that trainers and learners can use to improve their own knowledge or, if the licence allows, use in their own training.

The outline focuses on the meeting points between open science and health sciences and does not cover general and disciplinary specific topics, tools and methods in full detail.

In order to be able to follow the programme learners should have some general and disciplinary specific knowledge about research methodology.

We encourage you to become familiar with this training programme and to adapt and use relevant topics to train researchers, students and librarians.

If you would like to suggest new content and resources for consideration, please contact us at: oa@eifl.net. 

 

Table of contents

 

August 2024

CC BY licence

This work is licensed under licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License