{"id":161,"date":"2026-03-06T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openscience.bc.cas.cz\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:17:21","slug":"uzitecne-nastroje-a-odkazy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openscience.bc.cas.cz\/en\/uzitecne-nastroje-a-odkazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful tools and links"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Useful tools and links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fields of Open Science and Research Data Management are more complex than they may seem at first glance. Below, you\u2019ll find a wide range of tools designed to help you\u2014whether you\u2019re creating a data management plan, checking a journal\u2019s publication policies for your article, searching for a subject-specific data repository, or sharing your research data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data Management Plans
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CAS FAIR Wizard<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tool from the Czech Academy of Sciences for creating Data Management Plans (DMPs). The tool guides users interactively through the DMP creation process, assesses the degree to which FAIR principles are met, and provides links to methodologies and literature. It also allows DMPs to be shared with the entire research team in real time. It also allows users to select templates from Horizon, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (M\u0160MT), the Czech Science Foundation (GA\u010cR), the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA \u010cR), and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DMPonline<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most widely used European platform for creating DMPs. It includes templates from major finance providers and allows collaboration and sharing of plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RDMkit (ELIXIR Europe)<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A toolkit for managing research data in the life sciences.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Open Access \u2013 tools and search engines
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OpenPolicyFinder<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A database of Open Access policies from publishers, journals, and grant providers. Helps authors find out how they can publish in Open Access, what versions of articles they can share, and where. For example, it helps to check whether it is possible to publish a preprint in a repository before submitting an article to a journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Research Europe<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An open access publishing platform for publishing research funded by the European Commission in all fields. The platform makes it easier for European Commission grant recipients to comply with open access conditions and offers researchers a publishing space where they can quickly share their results and insights for FREE. The platform is indexed in Scopus. It can therefore replace publishing in journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOAJ \u2013 Directory of Open Access Journals<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A global index of high-quality peer-reviewed open access journals. Allows searching for open access journals by subject and region.
Ensures that journals listed adhere to open publishing and peer-review standards, helping to filter out predatory journals.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Licenses and copyrigh
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Creative Commons (CC)<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official website of the organization that manages open CC licenses. It offers an overview of all licenses and examples of their use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Commons License Chooser<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactive tool for selecting the appropriate license (CC-BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, etc.) for publications, data, and multimedia.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Citation database
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Web of Science<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A multidisciplinary citation database with a rigorous selection of journals. It enables advanced citation analysis, tracking of impact factors and Journal Citation Reports metrics, searching for publications across all scientific fields, verifying Article Influence Scores, analyzing authors\u2019 publication activity, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scopus<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extensive bibliographic and citation database with broad field coverage. Offers bibliometric analyses via SciVal, profiling of authors, institutions, and tracking of trends in science.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Citation managing tools
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Citace PRO<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Czech citation manager supporting the \u010cSN ISO 690 standard and other styles. Allows automatic citation generation, export to MS Word, record organization, and work with browser add-ons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mendeley<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference manager with a robust system for PDF management, annotations, literature organization, and integration with MS Word via Mendeley Cite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zotero<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open-source citation and research manager. Stores literature, notes, automatically generates citations, supports synchronization and collaboration in teams.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Searching repositories, ontologies and metadata standards
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FAIRsharing<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An international curated platform listing standards, databases, repositories and data policies. It allows searching for ontologies, dictionaries, formats, reporting standards and repositories. It serves as a central source for selecting appropriate data standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

re3data<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A global registry of research data repositories with over 3,300 entries. Allows you to filter repositories by subject, data type, licenses, access conditions, and other criteria. Helps researchers select appropriate FAIR-compliant repositories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenDOAR \u2013 Directory of Open Access Repositories<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This tool helps to find a suitable repository for publications or data (institutional and sectoral). It is closely related to OpenPolicyFinder.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Repositories
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ASEP<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institutional repository of the Czech Academy of Sciences for bibliography, full texts, preprints and research data. It automatically generates a DOI\/Handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zenodo<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An open, multidisciplinary repository for storing data, software, and multimedia. Automatically generates DOIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figshare<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cloud storage and repository for scientific data that allows researchers to store, share, and publish the results of their work, such as datasets, images, videos, and presentations. It automatically generates DOIs.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

CESNET tools and services for data storage and sharing
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(these are not repositories in the sense of the requirements of grant agencies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CESNET data storage<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service provides space for storing and sharing large scientific data within the national e-infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n