Benefits of Open Research

Why Open Research?

The benefits of making your research openly available

For some researchers, practicing open research is already second nature. Others may feel it adds another stage to the research process, but there are significant benefits for you and the research community.

Practicing open research:

• demonstrates your research is robust

• helps other researchers to reproduce your results

• helps other researchers to avoid repeating research

• ensures you retain access to your own work in the long term

• enables faster dissemination and impact, helping to raise your research profile

• extends the reach and impact of research outside academia

• increases opportunities for collaboration

• increases chances of citations

• enhances the profile of LJMU by showcasing our institutional research profile

• aids compliance with researcher funder requirements, including the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Plan S 

In addition to this, making your research available in LJMU Research Online can:

• provide a secure store for your work

• provide a stable URL for you to use to promote your work

• provide easy access to your work