2023-03-07 Meeting notes

5-7 min

Share out of relevant updates, 1-minute each!

Ameet - Ameet and Ofira presented about good practices and tools for data visualization at PRDS Experts Week.

Wind - Anne and Wind continue to attend the Hilious meeting. Planning more open access meetings

Neggin - Additional experts week workshops are planned. Well attended

Willow - Many research consultation for graphical abstracts - popular in life sciences. Looking for tools. https://www.cell.com/cell/newarticles.

Ofira - Upcoming Stokes Viz Hub workshops are planned for March and April.

Yuan - working with Rutgers to host an open access event from the publishers' perspective. Possibly to coincide with open research week.

Tetyana -

Review of Charge Exercise (link to Jamboard in ORSC Shared Google Drive)

"The Open Research Steering Committee (ORSC) exists to coordinate, develop, and encourage use of resources and services that support open research and scholarship with an overall goal to position PUL at the forefront of support for open research practices by academic libraries. In support of this goal, the ORSC will work with partners from multiple departments within PUL, including Research Data and Open Scholarship (RDOS), Scholarly Collections and Research Services (SCRS), Information Technology, Imaging, and Metadata Services (ITIMS), and Special Collections (SC):

• Develop and coordinate an outreach campaign to promote new and existing open research tools and practices
• Develop and maintain a website that provides information and support for open research and scholarship, including a calendar of events, resource map, tools and services available, and contact information for library staff with specific open research expertise 
• Coordinate and offer workshops and other training events related to research transparency, open science principles, and reproducibility, and maintain a calendar of open research-related events
• Coordinate with partners within PUL and across campus to develop and support new services that meet researchers’ needs
• Identify core competencies for staff engaged in open research support
• Coordinate exploration of new tools that support open research
• Report on the changing open research landscape and monitor open research practices at Princeton University through assessment and research activities 

In AY 2021-22, the ORSC will focus on:

• Developing and launching a web presence for open research and scholarship support at PUL.
• Hosting an event or series of events relating to open research and scholarship."

In 2023, ORSC will focus on: 

• Develop and coordinate an outreach campaign to promote new and existing open research tools and practices
• Identify and cultivate core competencies for staff engaged in open research support

We have great initiative. Need to work on and develop a strategic plan.

Suggestions:

Raise awareness to the ORSC group.

Should we think of this group as offering consulting services.

Some material available in confluence describing services maybe to add or update information about ORSC.

• Develop and coordinate an outreach campaign to promote new and existing open research tools and practices
  
  • leverage Year of Open Science
  • Bring in vendors for training(e.g. Protocols.io has offered to come in October and do on-site training for Princeton folks)
  • Can we create a living calendar?
  • Can we partner with Princeton Research Day this year
  • Traveling ORCID signup (at the front doors of research buildings)
• Identify and cultivate core competencies for staff engaged in open research support
  • Identify sessions that already exist across PUL/Research Computing and directly market to PUL staff (add to staff calendar??)
• Thinking of library outreach of ORSC:
  • Inventory of current competencies - what knowledge we have as a group
  • RDM - survey done by Neggin has data
  • Building off the LibGuide - create a map of services
  • Present to the Library about the work the group has done in the last couple of years. May reach additional people who are interested in Open Science.
  • Have open meetings inviting people to drop in or join the meeting adding expertise.
  • Host periodical brown bags, possibly focusing on different topics.
  • More work internally within the library.
• Should we tie it to the year of open science? - This should be done for external communication. For internal purposes may think about open research.
• Structures for research competencies
• For the next 2 weeks try to identify competencies to be discussed at the co-working group. Example: ORCC – Open Research Competencies Coalition – UKCORR
• Open research week during research day - may be challenging.
• Princeton research day this year is at the beginning of May - This is a busy time of the academic year when papers are due.
• We have to consider the target audience for the open research week. If for grad students we could do it later in the summer.
• Open education week is in the spring.
• May offer events targeted for different groups (faculty, grads, undergrads).
• Should be promoted accordingly.
• Open research week for grad and faculty. Possibly late spring, late summer or early fall.
• Check with GradFutures and departments what may be a good time.
• We agree to hold an event or two around research day and other events later in the year.

Co-working Wednesday, March 22rd, 2:00pm at the Atrium

• Fill in calendar
• Identify and contact vendors
• Low-hanging fruit for Year of Open Science

Next Meeting April 4th