This was the Open Science Summer School 2022

This was the Open Science Summer School 2022

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About 20 young scientists from all over Switzerland partook in this year’s Open Science Summer School at the UZH from 11 to 15 July 2022. They learned everything they needed to know about Open Data, Research Data Management and Open Access Publications. The social aspect was also not neglected during the exciting week.

Leonhard Held, Open Science Delegate of the UZH, started the Summer School and welcomed the participants to Zurich. Next, Manuela Höfler and Katherine Hermans from the Open Science office contextualized the importance of Open Science. Against this background, the participants then learned from Eva Furrer and Rachel Heyard about Open Data and reproducibility and the issues that arise if scientific work is not done in a reproducible way. The participants also tried out for themselves how they can reproduce a study and what challenges they would meet along the way.

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Prof Leonhard Held, Open Science Delegate of the UZH, welcomes the participants to Zurich.

Research data management

The second day focused entirely to research data management: René Schneider introduced the participants to the topic of research data management and the various data life cycles that have been proposed in the literature; Eva Mendez told the participants more about the importance of metadata, especially when data should be made FAIR. Lionel Perini then presented the SNSF’s Open Data Policy. In the afternoon, participants could again try out how research data management works with Renku (with Gavin Lee) and how to write a data management plan (with Aude Bax de Keating) in one of two workshops.

Publishing data

Wednesday was all about publishing data. Basma Makhlouf Shabou spoke to the participants about how data should be published and Suzanna Marazza delved into the topic of copyright and licenses. In the afternoon participants could socialize instead of having to learn and study.

Sensitive and FAIR data & Open Access

On Thursday, the Summer School took place on the premises of the Zentralbibliothek. The morning was again dedicated to data management: In one of two workshops, participants could learn more about the handling of sensitive data (Pabloa Diaz and Marieke Heers) or FAIR Data and even FAIRify their own datasets (Paola Masuzzo). In the afternoon, the Summer School then kicked off with Open Access. Izaskun Mallona gave a short introduction to the topic. With Johanna Havemann, participants discussed the pros and cons of Open Access, and of preprints, and learned about ways to publish Open Access.

Predatory practices and altmetrics

The last day of the Open Science Summer School closed with two important topics: Predatory Open Access journals and the predatory-like approach of (recognized) publishers by Susanne Flach, and Altmetrics and other ways to measure publication success by Oliver Renn.

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The participants and organizers of the Open Science Summer School on the last day. Successfully completed!

The week was not only very exciting in terms of content, but also offered possibilities for social exchange. Participants met for dinner in the city on two evenings or went underground in Zurich on Wednesday afternoon. The interaction was relaxed and very animated. And the participation of a service dog also contributed to a joyful atmosphere at times.

Missed the Summer School?

All presentations of the Summer School are published on the website www.openscience-summerschool.ch, together with materials from the past events of the Summer School 2020. During the Open Science Summer School there was also live tweeting via @uzh_openscience, where you can also find various content.

Melanie Röthlisberger, Open Science Services