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November 1, 2024

Initiatives

The OSI has a number of initiatives. Most of the materials for these initiatives are shared on our GitHub organization page.

Calendar

This calendar shows upcoming open scholarship events.

Surveys

We surveyed the research community about its knowledge of and interest in open science/open scholarship initiative in late 2022 and early 2023. Our findings are here and the full repository is here. A notable feature of this survey is the use of a fully-shared IRB protocol application.

Obstacles to sharing more broadly with the research community as reported by respondents to the Open Science Survey.

Obstacles to sharing more broadly with the research community as reported by respondents to the Open Science Survey.

Workshops and Bootcamps

Spring 2024 workshop

We sponsored a workshop on data management practices in Spring 2024. The workshop site is here and the repo is here.

Results of post-event survey about the Spring 2024 workshop by an independent evaluator.

Results of post-event survey about the Spring 2024 workshop by an independent evaluator.

Summer 2023 Bootcamp

We sponsored a 2.5 day bootcamp on open science practices in August 2023. The bootcamp featured a variety of presentations and activities, including a keynote by Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science. The bootcamp site is here and the repo is here.

Registrant survey of interest in various topics.

Registrant survey of interest in various topics.

Talks

Rick Gilmore gave a presentation about the initiative to the Child Study Center in February 2024. The HTML slides are here and the repo is here.

Rick Gilmore gave a guest lecture in the SoDA 501 course in Spring 2024. The HTML slides are here and the repo is here.

The University Libraries sponsored a workshop on machine-actionable data management and sharing plans in October 2024. Rick Gilmore gave a short talk about OSI and Penn State’s research data storage initiatives. The HTML slides are here and the repo is here.