Open Scholarship Initiative

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February 13, 2025

Welcome to the home page for the Penn State Open Scholarship Initiative. This site summarizes our mission, leadership, and initiatives.

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New NIH Open Access Policy goes into effect July 1, 2025

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the NIH Access Policy on December 17, 2024. On April 30, 2025, NIH updated the policy to have an effective date of July 1…

Open Scholarship Bootcamp registration now open

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Registration is now open for the 2025 Open Science Bootcamp, taking place Wednesday, August 13 through Friday, August 15 at the University Park campus. This immersive…
Jul 3, 2025

Open Access Week event at Penn State Libraries

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The Penn State University Libraries will host a panel discussion on the topic “We are enough: Practical open access for everyone,” featuring Peter Suber, Sarah Lamdan, and…
Jul 2, 2025

Meet with Ivan Oransky on April 21

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The Penn State Open Scholarship Initiative is excited to share an opportunity for members of the Penn State research and academic community to meet in small groups with Ivan…
Apr 15, 2025

Ivan Oransky talk on April 21

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Ivan Oransky, M.D., Co-founder, Retraction Watch, Editor in chief, The Transmitter, and Distinguished journalist in residence, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York…
Apr 8, 2025

Better data practices for research: A workshop

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By popular demand, we’re offering a workshop on data management and organization practices on Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm in the Dewey Room in the…
Mar 28, 2025

Open scholarship journal club begins

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All members of the Penn State community are welcome to participate in an open scholarship journal club meeting on the first and third Tuesdays of the month from 12 to 1 p.m.…
Feb 2, 2025

Love Data Week 2025

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Penn State joins institutions around the globe for International Love Data Week, February 10-14, 2025. Most of Penn State’s activities occur in conjunction with the Big Ten…
Dec 12, 2024

The cost of open access scientific publishing

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A new paper by Haustein et al. (2024) estimates the article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access to scientific publications.
Dec 2, 2024

Ioannidis on why most published research findings are (still) false

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In this talk (The Institute of Art and Ideas 2024) at the Institute of Art and Ideas, John Ioannidis, the author of a provocative 2005 paper (Ioannidis 2005), presents an…
Dec 2, 2024

 

Forum on Project and Time Management in Academia

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The American Society for Neurochemistry’s Early Career Development Committee is hosting a virtual forum on Project and Time Management in Academia for students and postdocs.…
Nov 22, 2024

Einstein Foundation Berlin announces 2024 awards for promoting quality in research

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The Einstein Foundation Berlin has announced winners of the 2024 awards for promoting quality in research. Dutch microbiologist Elisabeth Bik is among the winners. Bik’s…
Nov 20, 2024

We have some work to do

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A new Pew Research Center survey (Tyson 2024) conducted a few weeks ago provides information about “Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking.”
Nov 19, 2024

Open Scholarship Happy Hour Tues 11/19 4:30p

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Please join us for the first of what we hope will be many open scholarship happy hours on Tuesday, November 19 from 4:30-6:00 pm at The Lobby Bar, 100 West College, State…
Nov 13, 2024

PLoS Biology survey on reproducibility

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A new paper by Cobey et al. (2024) reports on the responses of n=1,630 respondents to a survey about the degree to which there is a reproducibility crisis in biomedicine.
Nov 7, 2024

 

New events calendar

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We’ve just added an embedded Google calendar where we’re capturing open scholarship-related events that are happening on campus.
Nov 1, 2024

 

Open scholarship in November

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November brings several opportunities to engage with open scholarship practices through events sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries:
Nov 1, 2024

 

New initiative web site

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Welcome to our initiative’s web site!
Oct 31, 2024
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