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The principles and facets of open science have become increasingly noted throughout the last couple of years. However, whereas Open Access has gained quite a lot of visibility, other facets are hardly visible and even less in action. Infact, many of the facets and principles are mainly known to those who are interested in working openly anyway. Fostering (facets of) Open Science should not only be a case of "preaching to the converted", but to give anybody an understanding of the concepts, principles, opportunities and challenges of the related subjects.
There are quite a number of approaches how this can be undertaken and a number of projects doing this for either certain topics or certain target groups. However, there does not seem to be a concerted approach.
This compendium aims to include documentation of the different facets of Open Science like Open Access, Open Data, Open Source, and Open Peer Review (see Facettes of Open Science). Our definition of Open Science is very broad - it also covers the opening of the humanities as well as Open Educational Resources and other related topics.
"Open Science 101" is the current working title and might be changed in the future dependent on the actual content.
Current Status: IN PREPARATION
Currently we are collecting ideas about the scope via the issue tracker and would invite everybody to contribute to the discussion and to share ideas.
Our role models for this repository are Software Carpentry (http://software-carpentry.org/) and Data Carpentry (http://www.datacarpentry.org/). Both initiatives host all their teaching material public in GitHub repositories so the content can be easily crowd-sourced (see e.g. http://software-carpentry.org/lessons/). We will try to adhere to their style as far as this is suitable.
We are aware that this is not the first attempt to generate such a collection but in our opinion there is no comprehensive resource covering all the required topics.
The content of this collection is licensed under a Creative Common Zero license (public domain) to facilitate optimal reusability.
We're happy to invite you to contribute, please have a look how and where!