Webinars

Open Research week 2023 featured online webinars hosted by experts on a range of topics, from getting started in Open Research through to publishing open access and making qualitative data open. The library team talked staff through using the Keele data repository and the Research Integrity and Improvement Committee delivered a Q&A for all disciplines. Catch up below.

Open Research 101

This session provided an overview of the key principles and motivators for open research and offered practical guidance on how to embed these practices in your own work.

Embracing the Mess: Exploring if, when, why, and how to open your qualitative data

In this talk, Annayah M.B. Prosser summarises some of the main issues qualitative researchers might encounter when deciding whether or not to open their data.

Open Access Publishing: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Strategies

The webinar discussed Keele's read and publish deals that can pay for open access fees, along with other pots of funding available to researchers.

Bring your data! Demonstrating Keele’s Data Repository

This session discussed how to add your data, metadata types, data presentation, accessing and searching the repository.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Open Research

A Q&A with Keele University’s Research Integrity and Improvement Committee. The session was broadly led by two key questions, “What opportunities are there for engaging in Open Research in your discipline?” and “What are the barriers to engaging fully in Open Research?”