Lessons for Librarians in

Open Science

Program

Creating a librarian-focused curriculum for open science!

Program Overview

This call seeks to support continued skills development for librarians in open science to effectively provide instruction to new researchers and effectively collaborate with faculty and researchers in science projects using open science practices. We aim to fund projects with high potential for subsequent impact on the open science community. We invite proposals based on diverse intellectual approaches and personal backgrounds to achieve these ends.

Program Goals

This program will result in 14 open science course modules for librarians at any career stage, with seven lesson proposals selected each year of the grant. These curricula will be published online in an unrestricted and freely available manner for reuse and remixing. These lesson modules will be developed and supported through two virtual summer workshops, and we will use feedback from lesson piloting to test the learning objectives with librarian learners.

Program Parameters

We are seeking lesson proposals intended for use in synchronous instruction settings. Lesson proposals should support both in-person and virtual environments. The completed lesson is expected to be 90 minutes to 3 hours long. We prefer submissions that use open resources, such as open-source tools and software, and resources that are broadly accessible to all.

Read the Full Call for Proposal

Lessons

A librarian-focused curriculum for open science

Lesson Site Repository Status Author(s) Adopted by Library Carpentry? Keywords
Research Community Outreach with Open Science Team Agreements Alpha Samantha Teplitzky, Ariel Deardorff, Samantha Wilairat ✅ team agreements, community, open science
A Path to Open, Inclusive, and Collaborative Science for Librarians Alpha Irene Vazano, Jessica Formoso ✅ collaboration, open science, inclusion
Data Management (and Sharing) Plans for Librarians 101 Alpha Lena Bohman, Marla Hertz, Daria Orlowska ✅ data management, sharing plans, DMP
Building an Open Science Community of Practice — — pre-Alpha Camille Thomas — community, open science
A gentle, hands-on introduction to containers and virtual machines pre-Alpha Fernando Rios, Jeffrey Oliver — containers, virtual machines, infrastructure
Open Science Discovery Engines: Empowering Librarian Use Through a Case Study Exploration of the NASA Science Explorer pre-Alpha Katie Frey, Jennifer Lynn Bartlett, Stephanie Jarmak — discovery, NASA, case study
Leveraging Open Research and Contributor IDs (ORCID) for Librarians pre-Alpha Levi Dolan, Mirian Ramirez, Hannah Craven — ORCID, identifiers, researcher profiles
Open Qualitative Research pre-Alpha Nathaniel Porter ✅ qualitative research, open science
Reproducible Research Workflows pre-Alpha Agata Bochynska ✅ reproducibility, workflow
Open science hardware: an introduction for librarians — pre-Alpha Julieta Arancio — hardware, open science
Open and Reproducible Research Cloud Workflows: A Firsthand Experience for Librarians alpha Daniel Kerchner — reproducibility, cloud, workflow
Collaborative Multilingual Search and Discovery Systems alpha Eric Silberberg, Jesus Alonso-Regalado, Cate Kellett — search, multilingual, discovery
Authoring Open Science alpha Kathryn Miller, Andrea Medina-Smith — open science, writing, metadata
Creating Data Dashboards for Open Science Using the R Programming Language alpha Aditya Ranganath — dashboards, R, data visualization

Authors

Daniel Kerchner

Senior Software Developer and Librarian, George Washington University

Eric Silberberg

Librarian for Instructional Design and Education, Queens College

Jesus Alonso-Regalado

Historical Librarian, Latin American Studies, and Romance Languages, University at Albany (SUNY)

Cate Kellett

Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, Yale University

Kathryn Miller

Publishing Librarian

Andrea Medina-Smith

Data Librarian

Camille Thomas

Scholarly Communications Librarian, Florida State University

Fernando Rios

Research Data Management Specialist, University of Arizona

Jeffrey Oliver

Data Science Specialist, University of Arizona

Levi Dolan

Data Services Librarian, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine

Mirian Ramirez

Research Metrics Librarian, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine

Hannah Craven

Scholarly Communications Librarian, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine

Katie Frey

Data Curator for Programmatic Access, Stanford University

Jennifer Lynn Bartlett

NASA ADS Project Scientist for Astrophysics, Center for Astrophysics

Stephanie Jarmak

NASA ADS Project Scientist for Planetary Science, Center for Astrophysics

Aditya Ranganath

Data Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder

Committee

Review Committe for the Program

Chris Erdmann

Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab Data Centre

Cody Hennesy

Computational Research Librarian

Yvonne Ivey

Program Manager @ NASA TOPS

Juliane Schneider

Research Librarian - Metadata @ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Clifford Kravit

IT Program Manager of Research Computing @ UCLA

Joy Guey

Emerging Technologies Advocate @ UCLA

Florio Arguillas

Research Associate, Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Elizabeth Bedford

Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian at University of Washington Libraries

Thu-Mai Lewis

Assistant Director for Research Data Stewardship @ UNC-Chapel Hill

Melanie Gainey

Open Science Program Director/Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University

Karen Ciccone

Lead Librarian for Public Science @ North Carolina State University Libraries

Our Previous Committees

2022-2023 2022-2023 Review Committee

Staff

Tim Dennis

Program Director

Zhiyuan Yao

Program Coordinator

Eric Huang

Lesson Infrastructure Developer

Lawrence Lee

Lesson Infrastructure Developer

Madeline Kim

Lesson Infrastructure Developer

Our Blog

These are blogs on what we've done

03-11-2024 Call for Proposals: Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods 2023-24 Library Staff
01-31-2024 New Deadline for Grant Opportunity: Open Science for Librarians 2024 Library Staff
08-07-2023 Celebrating the Winners of Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Method... Library Staff
12-14-2022 Call for Proposals: Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods 2022-23 Library Staff

Call for Proposals

Institute of Museum and Library Services, UCLA Library Data Science Center

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, aims to create 14 lessons that invite librarians to increase their aptitudes in the principles and practices of Open Science. Led by the UCLA Library Data Science Center, this project will incentivize two sequential one year cohorts of authors to develop and refine lessons through summer workshops. As part of this project, the UCLA Library Data Science Center is pleased to announce the call for proposals to develop lessons for librarians focused on open science methods and principles. Read the Full Call for Proposals

Timeline

for Lessons for Librarians in Open Science

  • December 4th, 2023

    Call for Proposals

    Please submit your Open Science for Librarians lesson proposals! Read the full Call for Proposals.

  • February 29th, 2024

    Proposal Deadline -- EXTENDED!

    Lesson proposals are due. Please submit your lesson idea!

  • April 30 - May 10th, 2024

    Accepted Proposals Announced

    We will announce the lessons selected for development.

  • June - August, 2024

    Collaborative Lesson Development Workshop

    A curriculum development workshop where lesson authors participate in a program to support lesson design.

  • September - December, 2024

    Lesson Refinement and Piloting

    Further lesson development and alpha piloting of lesson.

  • January - March, 2025

    Beta piloting and Carpentries Incubator

    Piloting by others outside of the core-author team and ingesting into the Carpentries Incubator.

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