CESSDA has delivered the first of four online training courses to the Infra4NextGen project. The hour-long training course is primarily aimed at social scientists, but scholars and researchers from other fields may also find it useful, as the principles and workflows presented can be applied across various disciplines.

The course is divided into five sections, with each section building upon the previous one. Its design allows users to directly apply open science principles to their own research projects. Throughout the course, participants can test their knowledge by completing a series of quizzes to check their understanding of each section.

The five sections of the course are:

• Section 1: Principles and drivers of open science, including techniques for conducting research that can be openly and easily replicated by other academics.

• Section 2: How to work collaboratively with other researchers, particularly using version control and safeguarding against common errors.

• Section 3: Git – an open-source version control system that tracks file versions to avoid errors in collaborative work.

• Section 4: Advice and guidance on using Quarto, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system, in RStudio.

• Section 5: How to use an Application Programming Interface (API) to directly download research data from data repositories.

Freely Available for All

The training course is both free and open to everyone – no prior experience in the topic is required to participate. By the end of the module, participants will understand the concepts of reproducible and open science, be able to compare tools that support these concepts, and develop a reproducible workflow for their own research projects.

The tutorials feature video clips from workshops previously delivered by CESSDA ERIC as part of the Infra4NextGen project.

Full webinar recordings are available via the Events Archive.

Try your hand at the first training course now: Open Science and Reproducible Research