Open Economics Guide: More than 160 Open Science Tools – Now Much Easier to Explore

by ZBW-Mediatalk team

The ZBW Open Economics Guide is a central online platform for researchers in economics and business studies who want to get started with Open Science. Alongside accessible introductions and practical insights into the various areas of Open Science – from Open Access, Open Data and Open Code to Open Educational Resources – the Guide also offers a blog and newsletter, checklists, a glossary, and a continuously growing collection of Open Science tools. This collection has now been comprehensively redesigned, with improved sorting and filtering options and an even stronger focus on usability.

The Open Economics Guide’s curated collection of tools now contains more than 160 entries and is useful well beyond the fields of economics and business studies. The catalogue brings together tools and services for finding literature, data and code, analysing and managing research data, writing and publishing, choosing licences, collaborating with science partners, and handling many other tasks in day-to-day research.

Easier to Navigate, More Transparent

Following the redesign, search results can now be filtered with a single click according to research activity, such as “Find literature”, “Publish texts” or “Choose a licence”, as well as by additional criteria including “Non-profit provider”, “Server location: EU” and “Open Source”.

Results can then be sorted alphabetically or chronologically according to their most recent update. Each tool entry contains a detailed description of the tool as well as information about the provider, its country of origin, and a direct link to its privacy policy.

The filters can be combined freely. Users can, for example, specifically search for literature discovery tools that are Open Source and explicitly hosted within the European Union.

We hope that the redesigned catalogue makes it even easier for users to find their way around and identify useful tools for their research – and we look forward to receiving feedback.

Suggestions for new tools can be submitted at any time via the contact form. We also recommend subscribing to the Guide’s newsletter, which regularly provides updates on newly added tools and other developments.

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This text was translated from English using AI and subsequently reviewed by an editor.