by Álvaro. OpenScienceLab | May 8, 2026 | Open Science
Becoming an open responsible scientist is not a single action, but a path built step by step. Each step helps make research clearer, safer and more useful: understanding openness, organizing data, sharing code, collaborating with others and involving society when it...
by Álvaro. OpenScienceLab | Apr 10, 2026 | Data, Open Science
Becoming an open and responsible scientist is not only about publishing papers. Today, knowledge is much more than that. It also includes data, software, scripts… If you want to be a real open scientist, you should share all these parts of your research. To make...
by Álvaro. OpenScienceLab | Mar 4, 2026 | Open Science
Celebrating Open Education Week by Welcoming Richard West to OpenScienceLab We take advantage of Open Education Week 2026 to welcome Richard West to UC3M as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement,...
by Álvaro. OpenScienceLab | Feb 6, 2026 | Open Science
We often discuss how outdated the way researchers are assessed is: rewarding the number of publications and relying on obsolete metrics that fail to capture the real value of scientific work. What we talk about much less is another factor that deeply reinforces this...
by Álvaro. OpenScienceLab | Nov 14, 2025 | Open Science
This year, Science Europe released something big. This is The Scoping Review: the Contributions of Open Science to Research Culture, on how open science is actually shaping the way we work, collaborate, and care in research. Open science in real practice, for real....
by Álvaro. OpenScienceLab | Sep 1, 2025 | Open Science
In the ever-evolving world of academic publishing, the term “predatory” has become widely used to describe a certain class of journals and publishers. While it may seem like an apt description, there are several reasons why we believe this label is not...
