Open research is the process of making research transparent, collaborative and accessible. It includes a wide range of practices that help others to understand, check, reuse and build on your work. These include sharing data, code, methods, publications, peer review and more. Open research practices can be explored and applied across all disciplines – arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences – in similar and different ways.
At Cambridge, open research supports excellence, integrity and public trust in research. It allows researchers to share their work widely, collaborate more easily, and demonstrate the value and impact of their findings. Open research also helps to meet funder and publisher requirements.
The University offers training, tools and guidance to help you embed open practices in your research and to share the outputs of your research. Whether you are starting out or looking to develop your approach, we can help you make your research as open as possible – and as closed as necessary.
