New Open Science MOOC starts 18 May. Register here

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Call for projects till 13 May

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Open software has allowed others to contribute to my work.

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Our vision is to make open science just science.

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I publish open access to ensure that the world can read and use my work.

Read more I publish open access to ensure that the world can read and use my work.

Our open textbook has been downloaded 4000 times in 36 countries.

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My first step towards open science is learning about research management.

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Open Science at TU Delft

Principles and tools for researchers and educators.

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1. Define

Set your own open science goals. They can be different depending on your field of work or career stage. Open science goes beyond publishing– it is a redefinition of scientific collaboration and output.

Four overlapping circles of different colours showing the visions of open science: equity, integrity, collaboration and impact.
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Learn how to apply open science principles in your work, wherever you can. Do it yourself, follow a training course or get expert help - explore the options below.

DIY

Learn about research data management essentials

Everything you need to know about Research Data Management.

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Manage your experiments digitally

Use electronic lab notebooks

Expert help

Licensing and copyright information

Copyright Information Point

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Get guidance on the open science section of your Horizon Europe application

Read example answers and tips for the Open Science and Research Data Management sections

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Publish open access in TU Delft’s open access journal

TU Delft open publishing platform for research articles and books

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Publish open access in your preferred journal

Read the infographic to find out how to publish open access, including how to obtain funding

Training

Coding Skills (entry level)

Software Carpentry Workshops teach basic version control, Unix Shell and Python skills

DIY

Use open educational resources (OERs) in your course

See a comprehensive list of OER repositories

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Publish an open textbook

Find out about TU Delft OPEN Publishing’s open access textbook publishing service

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Get Funding for making your dataset FAIR

Learn how to apply for the 4TU.ResearchData FAIR Data Fund to make your dataset Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).

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Publish your data and code

Use the 4TU data repository

Expert help

Data management and Software development

Digital Competence Centre (for applying FAIR principles)

Expert help

Data management and Publishing

Faculty Data Stewards

Expert help

Open textbooks and open educational resources

Library education support

Expert help

Publish open access

TU Delft OPEN Publishing

Training

Working reproducibly with data

Data Carpentry workshop

Training

Research Data Management

Research Data Management 101

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Work reproducibly with research code

Use TU Delft’s GitLab instance

Expert help

Skills in searching for and processing information

Library education support

Training

Coding Skills (advanced level)

Join the upcoming code refinery workshop to learn more advanced software development and management skills
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3. Contribute

By applying open science in your work you are contributing to making open science a default. On this page we show a curation of contributions at TU Delft and beyond. 

 

Solving a riddle with the community

Aircraft tell air traffic controllers and observers on the ground information about their position, speed, etc, thus allowing them to be tracked. Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Mode S are two types of radar systems that allow air traffic control to receive this information and monitor aircraft’s movements and positions. Hence, ADS-B and Mode S signals are incredibly valuable sources of information for those studying air traffic management and aircraft performance modelling. In his new book “The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals”, Junzi Sun, Assistant Professor at the Department of Control and Simulation, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, offers a practical guide for researchers and engineers to unlock these open aircraft surveillance data.

Enabling the Continual Transformation of Coastal Dynamics Education

Approximately half the world’s population lives and works within a couple of hundred kilometres of a coastline – there is a thirst for coastal dynamics knowledge at every shore. This is why, since its publication in February this year, the open textbook “Coastal Dynamics” by Dr. Judith Bosboom, senior lecturer Coastal Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, and Prof. Marcel Stive, Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering, has now been downloaded almost 4000 times in more than 36 countries.

Urban Microclimate Modelling with SPACERGY

Daniela Maiullari is a PhD student in the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology. By focusing on the relationship between urban form, urban microclimate, and the energy demand of buildings, her doctoral research addresses the transition towards low-carbon cities in future climate warming scenarios, and the increased need for space cooling.

Making the most out of whey with open knowledge & peer review

Milk and cheese play major roles in many diets all around the world. Yet, few are aware of the problems brought about by cheese whey – a massive by-product from dairy processing. “Here in Brazil, I came across so many difficulties in finding information about how much whey was produced, and what was done with it,” said Maria Paula Giulianetti de Almeida, PhD candidate with Gustavo Mockaitis in the Interdisciplinary Group for Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Campinas Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and CAPES visiting doctoral researcher in the Weissbrodt Group for Environmental Life Science Engineering at the TU Delft Department of Biotechnology, “so I decided to dig deeper into this.”

Python Essentials for GIS Learners: A Targeted FAIR Research Workshop by TU Delft’s Digital Competence Centre

Are you interested in learning to program with Python? Are you currently working with data using geographic information systems (GIS) or interested in doing so? Would you like to apply computational thinking and data analysis tools to your research?
These were questions posed to members of the Historical GIS (HGIS) and Delft Digital Humanities (DDH) communities within the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment to invite their participation in the ‘Python Essentials for GIS Learners’ workshop. The workshop was coordinated by the TU Delft Digital Competence Centre (DCC) from 15th to 17th March.

80 years of aerospace engineering education in the Netherlands

Aerospace engineering and innovation form a crucial part of the Dutch economy, and the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering plays a vital role in incubating and nurturing new generations of talent. Yet, a lot of the story behind how aerospace education at TU Delft has changed over the last years remains inaccessible by an international audience, as it was mostly captured in Dutch. In their new book “80 Years of Aerospace Engineering Education in the Netherlands”, Gillian Saunders-Smits and her co-authors Joris Melkert and Michiel Schuurman, unlocked this knowledge and delivered a tour across the evolution of aerospace education at TU Delft and the Netherlands, against the backdrop of Dutch economic and historical context.

Making OperationAIR data FAIR

4TU.ResearchData met OperationAIR team members, Tom Dijkhuis and Max Ligtenberg, to celebrate their project success and learn how the Data Refinement Fund 2020 helped them make their AIRone ventilator data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

Monitoring obesity patients with innovative technologies

Professor Natalia Romero Herrera was one of last year’s Data Refinement Fund recipients. In this article, we learn about Natalia’s design research and how she used the funds from 4TU.ResearchData to prepare personal data from human study participants for online publication.

Monitoring buildings to boost performance

Professor Laure Itard is working to identify solutions for energy waste and faulty indoor climate within buildings. The key question facing the recently-launched Brains 4 Buildings (B4B) research programme is: how can artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning contribute to improving sustainability and comfort? Living labs are set to play a key role in answering that question.
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