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The Dutch consortium of University Libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands (UKB), together with the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data (DANS) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on open science. Open Science Reliable science is not the sole work of superhuman geniuses, but a collaborative process. Researchers rely and build upon each other’s work. Together, we build theories, collect evidence and assess the research of colleagues. However, we can only build upon others’ work if we know exactly what our predecessors have done:What were their methods, relevant materials, data and outputs? Therefore, sound science ideally equals Open Science, in which all phases of the research cycle are as transparent and accessible as possible. About thisguide Beginning researchers are an important link in the transition to Open Science, so this guide is aimed at PhD candidates, Research Master Students, and early-career researchers from all disciplines at Dutch universities and research institutes. It is designed to accompany researchers in every step of their research, from the phase of preparing your research project and discovering relevant resources (chapter 2) to the phase of data collection and analysis (chapter 3), writing and publishing articles, data, and other research output (chapter 4), and outreach and assessment (chapter 5). Every chapter provides you with the best tools and practices to implement immediately. If the information in this guide feels overwhelming: Do not worry! Open Science is a journey, and you are not alone in this. There are always colleagues who are happy to help you out along the way. You can find fellow researchers or support staff at your localOpen Science Community (see chapter 6) and at yourUniversity Library. We hope this guide will motivate you and help you to practise Open Science, by sharing all aspects of your research with as many people as possible. The Future is Open! This guide, as an example of open science, builds upon the work of others. It is a derivative of “A Passport for Open Science. A practical guide for PhD students” written by Johann Berti, Marin Dacos, Gabriel Gallezot, Madeleine Géroudet, Sabrina Granger, Joanna Janik, Claire Josserand, Jean-François Lutz, Christine Okret-Manville, Sébastien Perrin, Noël Thiboud (Paris, 2020). Available at www.ouvrirlascience.fr and licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Licence. The original text has been cut, edited and mixed with original content focused on the Dutch research landscape. If you have any feedback on this guide, please leave your comment(s) on PubPeer.&nbsp

The transition towards Open Science will drastically alter our approach to academic life. It will change the ways in which we reward and recognise university employees and reshape the relationship between education and research. This should be reflected in how a new generation of academics and citizens are educated. Not only through the qualifications our students receive to become productive members of society, but also by dint of the values and attitudes we teach our pupils. The aim of university education should be preparing future graduates to share their (inter)disciplinary knowledge, engage with societal stakeholders, and shape tomorrow’s society. Now is the time to explore how. This manifesto is a thought exercise that explores the (possible) relationships between Open Science and education. It attempts to point out the overlap, parallels, synergy, and possible conflicts between Open Science attitudes and practices, and contemporary views and practices in education. We aim to provoke a perspectiveon the different aspects of how Open Science relates to education and propose several concrete directions forward and possible corresponding interventions. After explaining why education from an Open Science perspective needs to be explored and strengthened, we differentiate four faces of open education: the Open Science mindset, Open Science skillset, open educational resources, and how these activities should be recognised and rewarded. We subsequently illuminate three possible paths on how to strengthen open education, ranging from content to form and system. We hope that this will spark a broader national and international conversation on the relationship between Open Science and education.

New version: typo correction. Our Accelerate Open Science Project aims to give context to various developments in the area of Open Science, and to make information about topics such as FAIR data, Research assessment and FAIR Softwareeasier accessible. As the fourthslide deck in our Info Slides Series, we present youA first Introduction to Open Science. The slide deck is licensed under a CC-BY license, which enables you to make use of it any way you want.

In our Accelerate Open Science Project (ACOS), one of our aims is to give context to various developments in the area of Open Science. One very important development in this respect is the discussion about changing the academic system of recognition and rewards to stimulate researchers to incorporate Open Science in their daily workflow. In the Netherlands, there are several developments to change existing research assessment protocols towards a more inclusive and generous approach that enables researchers to work more openly and transparent. Three perspectives are leading in this discussion, namely the perspective from a researcher, the research and the research proposals. ACOS prepared a slide deck to give an overview of these developments and highlight recommendations to facilitate change. On a personal, team, faculty and institutional level. The slide deck is licensed under a CC-BY license, which enables you to make use of it any way you want.

Our Accelerate Open Science Project aims to give context to various developments in the area of Open Science, and to make information about topics such as FAIR data easier accessible. As a second slide deck in our Info Slides Series, we present youAnswers to five questions about FAIR data. The slide deck is licensed under a CC-BY license, which enables you to make use of it any way you want. &nbsp

The Open Science Awards recognize researchers or research students who have used Open Science to make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible. In the context of the first National Open Science Festival a call for Use Cases was published allowing all researchers and Phd students from Dutch universities, UMCs and research institutes to submit their use case. The call was looking for use cases that explored challenges and difficulties as well as positive experiences and successful outcomes. This collection of Use Cases is the result of this call. Use Cases in this Collection: Open science practices in Majorana research; Studies of Populations of Individuals Birds; A webtool for interactive data visualization and data sharing; Open science and open data for human factors research; cBiT: The Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics; The Student Initiative for Open Science (SIOS); A practical tool for standardising future costs in economic evaluation; Making open psychological datasets more accessible and useful for research and teaching; An open-source, open-participation competition for Fast Radio Burst detection.