Abstract

Welcome to Navigating Open Research – A Guide for Early Career Researchers. This guide is designed to help you at each stage of your research journey. From preparing your research project and discovering relevant resources (Section 1) to research data management and reproducibility (Section 2), writing and publishing (Section 3), sharing and publishing data (Section 4), licensing your work (Section 5) and communicating your research (Section 6) every chapter provides you with practical tips that can be implemented immediately.

Keywords

Open Research , Research data management , Research outputs , Research data , Pre-registration , Registered report , Societal engagement , PPI , Engaged research , Data management planning , Metadata , Reproducibility , Open access , Diamond open access , Green open access , Rights retention , FAIR data , Creative Commons , Licensing , Research impact , Research communication

Citation

Coffey, A., Joy, C., Hayes, A., McCabe, G., O’Dwyer, L., McCarney, E., Clarke, R., Madden, F., Stokes, D., Quinn, C., Dalton, M and Noonan, E. (eds.) (2025) Navigating Open Research - A guide for early career researchers. CONUL Research Group.