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SEEKING PILOTS

🔵 Beta - Seeking Pilots

A gentle, hands-on introduction to containers and virtual machines

containersvirtual machinesinfrastructure

SEEKING PILOTS

🟡 Alpha - Seeking Pilots

A Path to Open, Inclusive, and Collaborative Science for Librarians

collaborationopen scienceinclusionFAIR +1

SEEKING PILOTS

🟡 Alpha - Seeking Pilots

Authoring Open Science

open sciencewritingmetadataopen peer review +1

⚪ Pre-Alpha

Building an Open Science Community of Practice

communityopen sciencecommunity of practice

framework

CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

CAREindigenous data governanceethicsequity +1

framework

SEEKING PILOTS

🟡 Alpha - Seeking Pilots

Collaborative Multilingual Search and Discovery Systems

searchmultilingualdiscoverygoogle sheets api +1

SEEKING PILOTS

🟡 Alpha - Seeking Pilots

Creating Data Dashboards for Open Science Using the R Programming Language

dashboardsRshinydata visualization +1

⚪ Pre-Alpha

Leveraging Open Research and Contributor IDs (ORCID) for Librarians

ORCIDidentifiersresearcher profilesmetadata

Adopted

Data Management (and Sharing) Plans for Librarians 101

data managementsharing plansDMPDMPTool

course

NASA TOPS: Open Science 101

open sciencecertificationreproducibilitydata sharing +1

course

SEEKING PILOTS

🟡 Alpha - Seeking Pilots

Open and Reproducible Research Cloud Workflows: A Firsthand Experience for Librarians

reproducibilitycloudworkflowshell +2

Adopted

Open Qualitative Research (Taguette)

qualitative researchopen sciencetaguetteQDR

Adopted

Open Qualitative Research (QualCoder)

qualitative researchopen sciencequalcoderQDR +1

course

Open Science 101 (Open Life Science)

open scienceequityinclusioncommunity +1

course

Open Science Basics (FOSTER Open Science)

open scienceopen accessopen datareproducibility +1

course

⚪ Pre-Alpha

Open Science Discovery Engines: Empowering Librarian Use Through a Case Study Exploration of the NASA Science Explorer

discoveryNASASciXFAIR +5

⚪ Pre-Alpha

Open science hardware: an introduction for librarians

hardwareopen sciencelicensingOSH

SEEKING PILOTS

🟡 Alpha - Seeking Pilots

Research Community Outreach with Open Science Team Agreements

team agreementscommunityopen scienceoutreach

⚪ Pre-Alpha

Reproducible Research Workflows

reproducibilityworkflowopen sciencetools

reference

The ACRL Open Science Cookbook

open sciencelibrariansscholarly communicationresearch support

reference

framework

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

open sciencepolicygovernanceequity +1

framework

The FAIR Principles

FAIRresearch data managementmetadatainteroperability

framework

Lesson Status Dashboard

Tracking the lifecycle of our curriculum from development to adoption.

Lesson	CAC Review	Alpha Pilot	Beta Pilot	Impact / Recognition	Adoption
A gentle, hands-on introduction to containers and virtual machines		Completed	Completed
A Path to Open, Inclusive, and Collaborative Science for Librarians	Presented	In Progress
Authoring Open Science		In Progress
Building an Open Science Community of Practice
Collaborative Multilingual Search and Discovery Systems		In Progress
Creating Data Dashboards for Open Science Using the R Programming Language		In Progress
Leveraging Open Research and Contributor IDs (ORCID) for Librarians	Presented	Completed		Recognized	Incubator
Data Management (and Sharing) Plans for Librarians 101	Presented	Completed	Completed	Grant/Award	Adopted
Open and Reproducible Research Cloud Workflows: A Firsthand Experience for Librarians		In Progress
Open Qualitative Research (Taguette)		Completed	Completed	Published	Adopted
Open Qualitative Research (QualCoder)	Presented	Completed	Completed	Published	Adopted
Open Science Discovery Engines: Empowering Librarian Use Through a Case Study Exploration of the NASA Science Explorer	Scheduled	Completed
Open science hardware: an introduction for librarians
Research Community Outreach with Open Science Team Agreements		In Progress
Reproducible Research Workflows