Greetings POSE participants!
We hope your spring is going well! In this announcement we’re sharing what has been happening in the last couple weeks and what is coming up.
Open Access
For the month of May, we explored the topic of open access publishing in open scholarship and held two fantastic synchronous sessions that explored different topics in this area. First, we were joined by Jeanette Hatherill and Chloë Marshall from Coalition Publica, which is a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project focused on developing an open, non-commercial, Canadian infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing. The speakers discussed the Canadian “diamond” open access model—where scholarly publications have no fees for both authors and readers—and shared some of their efforts to support and strengthen this approach. If you were not able to attend the session, the recording is available in the updates section of the POSE site.
Later in the month, POSE facilitators and UBC Librarians Steph Savage and Erin Fields facilitated a discussion on whether the open access movement has failed and discussed an article by Richard Poydner in The Scholarly Kitchen who states: “Open access was intended to solve three problems that have long blighted scholarly communication – the problems of accessibility, affordability, and equity. 20+ years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) we can see that the movement has signally failed to solve the latter two problems.”
The Open Access unit will stay open for the remainder of the program. Please take some time and finish off the shared reflection, OA activities, and unit completion checklist if you haven’t yet.
Open Research
For the month of June, we will be exploring Open Research. This unit will examine issues related to transparency, reproducibility, open software, and open data. Open research can be a complex topic and we recommend giving yourself plenty of time to work through the unit.
This month we have two events that will highlight open research approaches and practices:
- Replicability, Generalizability, and the ManyClasses Approach to Open Science: Join a session with Dr. Ben Motz, Assistant Professor at Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who will explore the topic of reproducibility for applied research in education. Dr. Motz will share his work on ManyClasses, a research model designed to assess the generalizability of classroom experiments across educational contexts.
- Date: June 17
- Time: 10am to 11am
- More Info and Registration
- Open Research Discussion: How Generative AI (GenAI) Impacts Perceptions of Critical Thinking Skills and Practices:
Open Research emphasizes the importance of transparency for replicability and reproducibility of research, which can advance the overall impact of the work. Join POSE facilitators Trish Varao-Sousa and Craig Thompson for a discussion of an article by Hank Lee and colleagues (2025) who researched the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on perceptions of critical thinking skills and practices.- Date: June 23
- Time: 10am to 11am
- More Info and Registration
Please register for both events and add them to your calendars.
We look forward to continuing to explore open scholarship with you. See you online!
Best,
The POSE Facilitation Team
