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.

Journal club

During the Spring 2025 semester, we meet in the Music Seminar Room in Pattee Library (Pattee W325)

Sign up for our Hypothes.is group: https://hypothes.is/groups/mpnnB6bb/psu-osi to provide your own annotations of the readings.

Contribute papers to our Zotero Group: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5819247/research_about_open_scholarship

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Scheel, A. M. (2022). Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong. Infant and Child Development, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2295

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Thompson, W. H., Wright, J., Bissett, P. G., & Poldrack, R. A. (2020). Dataset decay and the problem of sequential analyses on open datasets. eLife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53498

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Bloch, J., & Samuelson, P. (2022, November). Some misconceptions about software in the copyright literature. Proceedings of the 2022 Symposium on Computer Science and Law. CSLAW ’22: Symposium on Computer Science and Law, Washington DC USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511265.3550449

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Berberi, I., & Roche, D. G. (2022). No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(11), 1630–1633. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01879-9

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Colavizza, G., Hrynaszkiewicz, I., Staden, I., Whitaker, K., & McGillivray, B. (2020). The citation advantage of linking publications to research data. PloS One, 15(4), e0230416. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230416

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.

Workshops and Bootcamps

Spring 2025 workshop

We sponsored a workshop on data management practices in Spring 2025. The workshop site is here and the repo is here.

Spring 2024 workshop

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

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.

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.