Sarah Gulliford (Kearns)

Describing the values and practices of Open Source Software, and the scope of the landscape analysis.

Executive Director, Riley's Way Foundation

An end-of-year roundup of all our favorite Things

Improving science communication skills and confidence through locally organized workshops.

Looking back at 2021 and forward to 2022

🎧 The authors of Data Feminism reunite to discuss the joys and benefits of community review.

The Commonplace is a space where people discuss the digital infrastructure and policies needed to distribute, constellate, and amplify knowledge for the public good.

A call for contributions. Submissions close on Wednesday, June 23, 2020.

🎧 A conversation about open source funding, the importance of maintaining code, and open access as liturgy.

A letter from the editors

A call for contributions. Submissions close on Monday, September 13, 2021.

🎧 The publishing academic complex is out of control, and current policies will only open future publications and not the backlog of research. How do you change a system which has so much social and economic power over scholarship?

For the Open Publishing Fest 2021, we had a discussion with some of the authors to keep the conversation and momentum going about fair and emergent business models in publishing.

A call for contributions for an on-going series.

College students face big problems ahead. This interview with the Lead Librarian for Public Science at NC State talks about Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions: an online curricula that prepares students both for university and the world beyond.

🎧 A conversation about communicating amongst scientists, clinicians, policy makers, and rural communities with the communications specialist of the Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network (1h 15m with transcript).

Note from the editor

🎧 A conversation with some of the folks behind the NERL Playbook and the Backflip deal with Elsevier (1 hour with transcript)

🎧 A conversation with the creators of the immersive found poetry adventure at MIT's Hayden Library (~30 minutes with transcript)

🎧 Creating data provenance standards to combat misinformation and human rights crises (45 minutes with transcript).

🎧 Leveraging bureaucracy, pre-registered reports, and shame to change scientific publishing practices (56 min with transcript).

Sharing the experiences of displaced researchers and fostering an academic community despite authoritarian oppression.

A bit on the how and why we do what we do on Commonplace

🎧 What if university libraries paid for the articles they actually accessed? And then gave away the rest to the public? (47 minutes w/ transcript)

🎧 On living literature reviews, disruptions in citations, and creating a narrative (1 hour with transcript). 

🎧 Interview with the founding editor of "Seeds of Science" in which we learn about their peer-review gardening program and what it means to create a speculative science journal. (54 mins with transcript)

Part 3, Chapter 4

Part 3, Chapter 30

A Spotlight on COPIM, the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs, on organizational adaptation in an ever-shifting publication ecosystem. (One hour with transcript)

Interview with a professor and open education librarian at Wake Forest University about creating a research-based digital classroom: Domestic Knowledge. (48 mins with transcript)

🎧 From designing guidelines for tenure and promotion, to determining what's the best way to get your work cited, this podcast with University of Waterloo's Lennart Nacke discusses a lot of important scholcomm topics. (46 mins with transcript)

🎧 A publisher, a director of a library consortia, and a digital collections librarian walk into a deal. No joke! In this podcast, we hear how NERL and Sage came to a licensing agreement (47 minutes with transcript).

How ought we consider your aliveness? Are you even alive??

new job, who dis?

The politics of poetry and infrastructure.