Pointless gameshow - open research

Conference item : Presentation

This interactive session will use the format of the game show “Pointless” to explore open science practices and concepts. The premise is to ask the audience to guess the most obscure but correct answer to a question - in our case all open science related! Everyone is welcome to attend, no matter your level of understanding of open science, and hopefully everyone will learn something new! The questions will address open science practices such as preregistration, open access, and open data, and will also cover topics related to the ownership of our knowledge, such as the use of preprints, open data, open code, open peer review, and alternative publishing formats and a bit of history on open science in general. Come along to learn more about well-known and less well-known open science in our interactive game-show style session, and maybe even win a prize (although the real prize is improving your open science knowledge!)

Authors: OxCIN Open Science Ambassadors

• Publisher: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2026-03-04
• Event title: Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship 2026
• Event location: Weston Library, University of Oxford
• Event website: https://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
• Event start date: 2026-03-02
• Event end date: 2026-03-06
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-kz2jkyd0d
• Language: English
• Keywords: OxFOS
• Subjects: Research
• Subtype: Presentation