Advocacy & Guidance Materials

Best Practices

Open Data best practices list - 2012

Best Practices in the Research Data Management Life Cycle -Author: M. Garruccio, 2019 

Guidance and template

CGIAR Author Guidance (PDF): Information for CGIAR authors of peer-reviewed, scholarly publications. Included in the document is an Author Addendum letter CGIAR authors may use to secure necessary rights and permissions to deposit post-prints into a CGIAR OA repository - 2015

CGIAR Author Guidance (Editable MS Publisher file) - 2015

Why and how to share data?

About Sharing Your Research Data - John Hopkins Data Mgmt Svcs — Data sharing: Advantages, ways, restrictions; how to cite

Brochure that can be customized with your logo and contact details on Why Open Access - Courtesy of Bioversity 

Data reuse and the open data citation advantage - Piwowar and Vision, 2013

ICRISAT Agronomic Data Management Sharing_Training- PowerPoint - 2014

Information Management — Great resource to find out more on a variety of issues related to data management and sharing

FAIR Data Compliancy: key messages for researchers . M. Garruccio, 2019 

Open Access, Open Data. Open Research? — Useful information -- can be customized or parts of this used in informational/why OA-OD talks for researchers.

Open Access Resources from the Open Access Button — What is Open Access? How can I make my research Open Access? Why make your research Open Access? Resources from the openaccessbutton.org

Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate - Piwowar ​et al., 2007

The Open Access Citation Advantage — Materials from SPARC Europe pointing to studies about the "citation advantage" of Open Access

Why Open Research? — Site primarily for researchers, to educate them about all the different ways they can be open and how sharing can be beneficial for their careers. Also aimed to provide information and resources for those working in open advocacy. All resources herein all openly licensed and their reuse in encouraged.