LibGuides: Open Research Checklist: Open Research Checklist

Introduction

The Open Research Checklist is designed to serve as a guide for NTU researchers who wish to make practical changes in order to make their scientific process and research outputs more transparent, inclusive and accessible.

The checklist consists of a series of questions and suggestions. It can be used as a precursor for discussion and a means to inspire future action.

We welcome comments and suggestions. Please email us at: osr@ntu.edu.sg.

References

Version 1 (2023)

OPEN METHODS

Open Methods require the public availability of detailed documentation of the processes, procedures and materials used in a research investigation.

Have you included sufficient details that is needed for full replication?
Have you considered pre-registration or publishing a registered report, where applicable?

OPEN ACCESS

"Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions." (Suber, 2012)

Have you published open access whenever possible?
Alternatively, have you uploaded an appropriate version of your publication to institutional open access digital repository (eg. DR-NTU or NIE Digital Repository?
Have you provided your ORCID ID to the publisher at the stage of manuscript submission?
Have you included a Data Availability Statement in your manuscript?

OPEN DATA

Open Data refers to the public availability and reusability of that scientific data.

Have you considered which parts of your research data can be made open?
Have you included data sharing in your data management plan?
Have you provided adequate documentation and metadata for your research data, where applicable?
Is your data stored in portable, non-proprietary formats?
Have you shared non-sensitive research data and documentation for reuse in institutional open access (eg. DR-NTU (Data), NIE Data Repository) or external (e.g. subject-specific) data repositories under an open license, where legally and ethically permissible?
Is there a DataCite Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for your open data?
Is your data(set) FAIR (i.e. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable)? Use the FAIR Assessment Tools to check.

OPEN CODE

"Open Code refers to custom, author-generated code used in a scientific research study... and subsequently made publicly available under an Open Access license via a linked repository, or as Supporting Information." (PLOS)

If you have written code, have you documented your test protocol?
Have you scripted your analysis, including data cleaning and wrangling, where applicable?
Is your code well annotated and documented for ease of understanding and reuse?
Has the use of all software versions and computing environments been documented where applicable?
Are you able to openly share your code?
If you have shared your code, have you shared it under an open license?
Have you adopted the FAIR principles for research software?

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Adapted in 2022 by Mr NAH Hui Kang Christopher, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.

Content co-authors (in alphabetical order of last name):

Dr Amy CHOU, Open Science and Research Services, NTU Library
Ms GOH Su Nee, Open Science and Research Services, NTU Library
Ms Yuyun Wirawati ISHAK, Institutional Repositories, NTU Library
Ms LEE Ser Lin, Celine, Good Research Practice Office, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Mr Eric LIM Jit Kai, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Mr NAH Hui Kang, Christopher, School of Biological Sciences