Resources

You will find below a non-exhaustive list of openly available resources that can be used in data and research ethics education and advocacy, or just to expand your own knowledge on the topic.

If you would like to add to these lists, please contact Kate, giving details and links to the resource.

Books and Reports

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Beaulieu, A. and Leonelli, S. (2021) Data and Society: A Critical Introduction. London, UK: SAGE.
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/data-and-society/book269709
– Open Access:  https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/127993?show=full

Leonelli, Sabina. 2023. Philosophy of Open Science. Cambridge University Press. Open Access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009416368

Leonelli, Sabina, and Niccolò Tempini, eds. 2020. Data Journeys in the Sciences. Springer Open Access.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37177-7

The Royal Society 2024 report: Science in the Age of AI.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/science-in-the-age-of-ai/

Werthner, Hannes, Carlo Ghezzi, Jeff Kramer, et al. eds. 2024. Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook. Springer. 
https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/introduction-to-digital-humanism/26552640

Glossaries

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Kitchin, Rob. 2025. Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Polity Books (Open Access). 
https://polity-books-backend.prod.politybooks.wiley.host/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KITCHIN-9781509566525-EPDF.pdf

Data Solidarity Glossary: https://dthlab.org/data-solidarity-glossary/
– Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS), University of Vienna

Frameworks and Tools

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Data Ethics Quiz: https://learning.theodi.org/test-your-knowledge
– The Open Data Initiative (ODI)

Data Ethics for Practitioners Course : https://scistarter.org/training-dataethics
– SciStarter

Data Ethics in the Participatory Sciences Toolkit: https://participatorysciences.org/resources/data-ethics/
– Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences

CARE principles: https://www.gida-global.org/care 

Geotechnology Ethics – a unique course that explores the ethical and social issues with geodata technologies and applications, created by colleagues at the University of Twente: https://www.geoversity.io/courses/geotechnology-ethics/

PLUTO – Public Value Assessment Tool : https://pluto.univie.ac.at/
– Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS), University of Vienna

TRUST principles:https://www.fairsfair.eu/articles-publications/trust-principles-digital-repositories

FAIR Principles – Resources

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Guidelines to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets.

The FAIR Principles: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/

FAIR Implementation Framework: https://fair-impact.eu/fair-implementation-framework
– EU-funded FAIR-IMPACT project: https://fair-impact.eu/fair-impact-expanding-fair-solutions-across-eosc
– FAIR Assessment Tools: https://fair-impact.eu/fair-assessment-tools
– Resources: https://catalogue.fair-impact.eu/

FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/
Guide to data and metadata standards, databases, and policies. 
– University of Oxford

Initiatives and Information

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Data & Society: https://datasociety.net/
– Independent non-profit research organization

The Digital Humanism Initiative: https://caiml.org/dighum/
– TU Vienna

GOVLAB—The Living Library
Selected readings on data governance: http://thelivinglib.org/selected-readings/

Research Data Alliance AIDV-WG Shared Citation Library
Curated readings on Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation – https://www.zotero.org/groups/4922635/aidv-wg/library

Open Science

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Open Science Training Handbook: https://book.fosteropenscience.eu/
– Living handbook on Open Science

Open Science Training Resources—European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL): https://www.embl.org/about/info/open-science/open-science-training-resources/

ORION Open Science: https://www.orion-openscience.eu/publications/training-materials
Training materials from EU Horizon 2020-funded project.

PHIL_OS—A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments: https://opensciencestudies.eu/
– University of Exeter & Technical University of Munich

Provost L, Di Donato F, Tóth-Czifra E. et al. “Open Science Training in TRIPLE [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations].” Open Res Europe 3, no. 39 (2023) https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15430.2

UNESCO Open Science Toolkit: https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/toolkit

Academic Studies

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GOVLAB—Open Governance Research Exchange : https://ogrx.org/
Academic articles relating to data governance

Harvard Data Science Review: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/

NFDI4DataScience — National research data infrastructure (NFDI) for the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence community in Germany: https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/
– Conversations on AI Ethics Video Series: https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/community/ai-ethics-video-series/
– Lecture Series: https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/community/lecture-series/