r/Open_Science↗
For all things open science
Open science is an increasingly important discussion topic. This subreddit collates the latest information on topics such as open access, open data, open education, open peer review, and open source. Anyone is able to post links, images, videos, and text to this feed. They will also be displayed on Mastodon and Twitter. Our idea of "science" spans from the natural sciences to the humanities and everything in between.
15k subscribers11 posts / mo in Sep 20265 authors / mosince 2016
r/Open_Science has 15k members. It gets about 11 posts a month from 5 people. Top topics: ScientificJournalsAndResearch, Research Reading Strategies and Digital Libraries & Archives.
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- ScientificJournalsAndResearch6.9%
- Research Reading Strategies0.9%
- Digital Libraries & Archives0.7%
- Open Source Projects0.7%
- OpenSourceSoftware0.6%
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