Psychology lab embraces open science - Leiden University

The University Library’s Centre for Digital Scholarship (see right) probably knows most about open science at the university at present because by its very nature a library has to understand how to store information and make it assessible. There is also a bottom-up initiative at the university, the Open Science Community Leiden, with enthusiastic researchers, library staff and other research support staff who have even won an Open Initiatives Trophy. And then there is a figurehead, Paul Wouters, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, who is leading the university’s Open Science programme. Together these are the ingredients for a systematic approach to open science, but in practice it is often just a handful of researchers who voluntarily invest their time in the principle.