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Welcome to the Open Science Guidebook for Neuroscientists!

Welcome to the Open Science Guidebook for Neuroscientists repository. This repository aims to provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and resources to promote and apply open science principles in the field of neuroscience. Check the guidebook on our website!

Our project seeks to spread Open Science in the field of Neuroscience. The guidebook offers step-by-step guidance on data management, pre-registration, protocol and code sharing, and open-access publishing. Uniquely designed for the diverse subfields of neuroscience, this resource consolidates existing knowledge and introduces new content to address specific challenges. Accessible to researchers at all levels, it aims to empower students, research technicians, and all career-level scientists, fostering collaboration, reproducibility, and transparency within the neuroscience community.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Open Science in Neuroscience
  2. Preregistration & Protocols
  3. Data organisation
  4. Open Software & Tools
  5. Publishing & Preprints
  6. Science Communication
  7. Set up Your Own Working Group
  8. Recognition & Reward
  9. Open Educational Resources

How to contribute

🌱 We’d love to stay connected with the open neuroscience community and invite you to help shape this guidebook. Whether by providing feedback, suggesting new content, or helping keep information up to date, your input is essential. By working together, we can keep the guidebook useful, current, and relevant for everyone.

🧠 If you'd like to contribute, you can either open an issue to share your suggestions, and we'll review them, or submit a pull request directly. Thank you for your support!

✨ Many, many thanks to our mentor from the Open Life Science 8th Cohort, Siobhan Hall, for her guidance throughout this project. Her feedback and broad perspective were very valuable in shaping our work!