Open Research: A 2024 NISO Training Series

Scope

Most professionals supporting or conducting research have heard of various aspects of open science and scholarship. But do we really understand the why of these practices, do we recognize open science and do we understand its diversity? And can we apply knowledge of open science in our own institutional contexts?  

Using the research cycle as a framework, this course will help you navigate the open science landscape in lively, information-packed sessions. Sessions will include the following topics:

•  research preparation, public engagement and citizen science
• preregistration, reproducibility issues, open code
• open data
• preprints, open access, publication strategies
• open peer review
• metadata and open science in monitoring and assessment

 You will learn how all these are applied by researchers and supported by librarians, data managers and other professionals. All sessions combine presentation, demonstrations, hands-on exploration and discussion. You will leave the course with knowledge and insights but also with ideas and inspiration to include open science perspectives and practices in your own role and context.

Training Facilitator

Jeroen Bosman, Open Science expert and Geoscience librarian, Utrecht University

Jeroen Bosman (@jeroenbosman / @jeroenbosman@akademienl.social) is a scholarly communications specialist and geoscience librarian at Utrecht University Library. He is recognition and rewards fellow in the Open Science programme of Utrecht University. He is member of the national project team for revisioning the framework for open access monitoring in the Netherlands.

He is an expert in the field of open science and open access policy, practices and tools, as well as scholarly search engines. His main interests are Open Access and Open Science in all academic fields, scientometrics, research evaluation. He coordinates Utrecht University's participation in DIAMAS, the Horizon Europe funded international project on institutional publishing.

He has 25+ years teaching experience in academic information skills and has led dozens of Open Science workshops, including internationally. He is co-lead of the 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication project that surveys and charts developments in scholarly communication, research workflow tools and practices. He has co-authored numerous publications in the field of scholarly communication, including reports commissioned by VSNU (currently UNL) on publication cultures, by cOAlition S on Plan S compliant publication venues, and by Science Europe on diamond open access journals.

He is an avid advocate for Open Access, Open Science and Scholarly Commons and for applying open principles. All activities are carried out in the open and resulting materials are fully open (CC-BY or CC0) and linked to his ORCID account.

Training Facilitator

Bianca Kramer, advisor, research analyst, facilitator, Sesame Open Science

After having worked s scholarly communication/open science librarian at Utrecht University Library for 15 years, in 2022 Bianca Kramer moved to independent consulting/research analyst role at Sesame Open Science, with a focus on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure.

She has investigated trends in innovations in scholarly communication across the research cycle in the project 'Innovations in Scholarly Communication'. She has organized many interactive workshops on open science, including the course 'Scientometrics using Open Data' in collaboration with CWTS Leiden and Curtin Open Knowledge Institute (COKI).

Bianca has (co)authored commissioned reports on a quantitative analysis of publication types in Dutch research outputs, a gap analysis of Plan S-compliant publication venues, the diamond OA landscape, and the comparison of of coverage and quality of metadata for Dutch research output in OpenAlex and OpenAIRE. She has also been involved in developing Open Access monitoring using open data sources in the Netherland and the UK.

Bianca is founding member of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and part of the organizing team of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

She is currently a member of the Preprint Advisory Group of Crossref, and has been on the Europe PMC and Literature Services Scientific Advisory Board of EMBL-EBI, the board of FORCE11, and the EC Expert Group on the Future of Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing.

Course Duration and Dates

The series consists of eight (8) weekly segments, each lasting 90 minutes. Specific dates are:

• September 26
• October 3, 10, 17, 31 (No class on October 24)
• November 7, 14, 21

Each session will be recorded and links to that archived recording will be disseminated to course registrants within 2 business days of the close of the specific session. We strongly encourage attendees to download these files to ensure continued access.

Course Structure

Each week will be dedicated to one specific aspect of open research. The session will contain an introduction on the topic, followed by hands-on-exploration by participants (exploring resources, finding examples, trying out). The final part of each session will take the form of a discussion about how the specific aspect of open research can be supported in practice. 

Each week, participants will be asked to reflect on opportunities and challenges at their own organization, and think about potential actions to facilitate a specific aspect of open research at their organization. 

These ideas will be shared and discussed with the group throughout the course, providing participants not only with knowledge and resources about a variety of open science topics, but also with a range of actionable ideas to apply in an institutional context.