Knowing how and where to share your research may still seem a daunting task given the variety of channels. Ross Mounce, Community Coordinator for Open Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation, presents the best ways to ensure discoverable access to research outputs. He highlights the metadata power of institutional repositories and other services like Zenodo. With a combination of preprint & postprint postings, it is easy to make your research freely available.
Recently I tried to explain on twitter in a few tweets how everyone can take easy steps towards open scholarship with their own work. It’s really not that hard and potentially very beneficial for your own career progress – open practices enable people to read & re-use your work, rather than let it gather dust unread and undiscovered in a limited access venue as is traditional. For clarity I’ve rewritten the ethos of those tweets below:
Step 1: before submitting to a journal or peer-review service upload your manuscript to a public preprint server
Step 2: after your research is accepted for publication, deposit all the outputs – full-text, data & code in subject or institutional repositories
The above is the concise form of it, but as with everything in life there is devil in the detail, and much to explain, so I will elaborate upon these steps in this post.


Comprehensible writing relies on the strength of authorial voice, but voice remains a bewilderingly nebulous concept. 



To mark their first birthday, the LSE Review of Books held an
Improved research sharing practices will undoubtedly help to boost the visibility of research. 











