Open Research Week 2026 is a collaboration between the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, Edge Hill University, and the University of Essex. It is a week that celebrates and promotes open research for researchers and colleagues who support open research. Whilst some sessions are UK-focused, others will be of interest to colleagues around the world. (source: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/open-research-week-2026/)
- Opening Keynote at Open Research Week 2026 : What is the public value of openly accessible research? 02/03 at 15 – 16h ONLINE.
Nearly 25 years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative laid the foundation for greater openness to the scholarly record, we still know little about how the public actually uses this research. Declarations and manifestos have long claimed that open literature empowers ‘curious minds’, ‘informed citizens’, and society at large. But do these ideals match reality? This keynote will challenge assumptions and present fresh empirical evidence on how the general public engages with openly accessible research.
- Many researchers use code, how many share? On 03/03 at 11.30 – 12.30h ONLINE
TADA is a wizard way to enable you to improve code sharing. Many researchers use code, how many share? TADA is a wizard way to enable you to improve code sharing Online. Dr Joel Pick (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Edward Ivimey-Cook (University of East Anglia) are two of the co-authors of TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing. All the authors of this paper are members of SORTEE. Code sharing is an important element that supports computational reproducibility. Funders and journals are either mandating or encouraging sharing. How can you prepare your code to be functional, reproducible and discoverable? TADA can help. In this session Dr Joel Pick will be talking about code sharing and the TADA simple guidelines to improve code sharing (with or without a wizard hat!).
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