Greetings POSE participants!
We hope this spring is going well! In this announcement we wanted to share with you about 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, POSE facilitators and UBC Librarians Steph Savage and Erin Fields held a workshop on Creative Commons and Copyleft Trolls where they explored considerations for choosing an appropriate Creative Commons license and how copyleft trolls take advantage of outdated licenses. Then, later in the month, Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Director of Research for the Public Knowledge Project and Associate Professor in the SFU Publishing Program facilitated an open chat on global trends in open access publishing. If you were not able to attend these sessions, the recordings are available in the Media Gallery in Canvas.
The Open Access unit will stay open for the remainder of the course. Please take some time and finish off the discussions and activities that you haven’t had a chance to do them yet.
Open Research
June 1st, we will start exploring Open Research. This unit will examine issues related to transparency, reproducibility, open software, and open data.
This month we have two events that will highlight open research tools and approaches:
- Introduction to OSF: OSF (formally the Open Science Framework) is a free open platform to support open research and enable collaboration. Mathew Vis-Dunbar, UBCO Data & Digital Scholarship Librarian, will highlight existing projects that use OSF and explore the basics of OSF for managing a research project from start to finish.
- Date: June 14
- Time: 11am to 12pm
- More Info and Registration
- Replicability, Generalizability, and the ManyClasses Approach to Open Science: Join a discussion 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 21
- Time: 11am to 12pm
- More Info and Registration
We look forward to continuing to explore open scholarship with you. See you online!
Best,
The POSE Facilitation Team
