PHIL_OS has collated a non-comprehensive list of Open Research tools and resources produced by projects and institutions around the world, which we admire and think of as helpful to researchers and publics interested in developing and supporting open research. If you have suggestions for further resources to add, please email Sabina Leonelli with the link and a short description.
- Inner Development Goals: collection of research and science-based skills and qualities that help us to live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives — https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/
- Orcid: free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities — https://orcid.org/
- Open Science in the Developing World: a collection of practical guides for researchers in developing countries — https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251357565
- GATE service: supports capacity building in Open Science, to drive innovation and progress in a changing landscape — https://www.opensciencegate.com
- OpenAIRE: global research excellence through trusted infrastructure for open access, data sharing, and scholarly communication — https://www.openaire.eu/
- Dryad: makes it easier to share, find, use, and cite data, and are ready-made for emerging data-sharing requirements — https://datadryad.org/
- Zenodo EU Open Repository for EU-funded research: Zenodo community dedicated to fostering open science and enhancing the visibility and accessibility of research outputs funded by the European Union — https://zenodo.org/communities/eu/
- PATHOS Open Science Resources Hub: gathers the essential knowledge, tools, and evidence you need to understand and measure the impacts of Open Science — https://pathos-project.eu/pathos-os-resources-hub
- TIER2 project outputs: resources to boost knowledge on reproducibility, create tools, engage communities, implement interventions and policy across different contexts to increase re-use and overall quality of research results — https://tier2-project.eu/
- UNESCO Open Science Toolkit: designed to support implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science — https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/toolkit
- EOSC Open Science Observatory: all-inclusive platform where you can access, explore, visualize and download comprehensive data on the advancement of Open Science (OS) across Europe — https://www.eoscobservatory.eu/home
- Skills4EOSC: a pan-European network of competence centres to speed up the training of European researchers and harmonise the training of new professional figures for scientific data management — https://www.skills4eosc.eu/
- OpenREL (EOSC & OpenAIRE): policy layer for research data, with info on licensing, ethics and access, all machine-readable — https://www.openaire.eu/community/blogs/highlights-from-osfair-2025-openrel-and-the-future-of-rights-in-open-science
- QualiFAIR: recommendations website for sharing qualitative data — https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/7798
- EcoWeaver: project to weave together ecological knowledge from diverse sources, using state-of-the-art computational technologies, and create an infrastructure that includes an openly accessible knowledge base that adheres to the FAIR and CARE principles and the tools to create, manage, and access it — https://ecoweaver.hi-knowledge.org/
- OER Graduate Network: global network of PhD candidates whose research projects include a focus on open education (i.e. OER, OEP, MOOC) — https://go-gn.net/, including their Open Research Handbook https://go-gn.net/gogn_outputs/open-research-handbook/
- Research Data Alliance: a large collection of tools and activities in support of data sharing and management — https://www.rd-alliance.org/
- GO-FAIR: bottom-up, stakeholder-driven and self-governed initiative that aims to implement the FAIR data principles, making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) — https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
- CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition: offers fully transparent information about the scientific performance of over 2800 universities worldwide — https://open.leidenranking.com/
- Open Policy Finder: Inspiring confident choices in open access publishing for authors and institutions — https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/
- FORRT: the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training provides a pedagogical infrastructure and open educational resources designed to support the teaching and mentoring of open and reproducible science — https://forrt.org/about/us/
- rOpenSci: fosters a culture of open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software. We build social and technical infrastructure for the R language to enable researchers and engineers to collaborate, share, and publish their science, data, and methods — https://ropensci.org/
- Italian Community of Data Stewards: https://open-science.it/perspective?p_r_p_tags=p_datasteward
- ISO: standards, including for Open Data — https://www.iso.org/standards.html