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Last week, the Open Science Office, together with the Main Library and the Center for Reproducible Science, launched the Open Science Game “Open Up Your Research” on the last day of International Open Access Week.
The game explores what open science entails, how open science practices can be applied, and how an open approach differs from a more traditional research. In the game we follow Emma, a young researcher, on her way to a doctorate and have to explore precisely these questions. Should I write a data management plan? Pre-register my thesis? What is the advantage of making my data and code FAIR? Can’t I put this off until later? And where should I publish? At each stage of the research process, Emma must decide whether to practice an open science approach or go the traditional route.
The initial idea for this interactive game was developed by Manuela Höfler and Katherine Hermans from the Open Science office when they realized that there was a lack of suitable media that coherently presented open science practices in the research process from the perspective of the researchers. Eva Furrer from the Center of Reproducible Science and Melanie Röthlisberger from the Main Library then reviewed and amended the script to reflect the researchers’ perspective. Illustration (Janine Meyer) and animation (Tara von Grebel) was done by the Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS) of the UZH.