Ideas for future programming? Contact Caitlin@orfg.org and check back frequently for program announcements.

  • Do you have a policy, program, or practice that advances open scholarship? Volunteer to participate as a featured speaker and share your story.

  • Would you like to hear from your peers about their work in open scholarship incentives, initiatives, and reform? Email us to suggest a topic for a panel discussion, community call, brown bag, and more.

  • Register for these events to learn about successes, challenges, and opportunities in advancing a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem.

Generative AI: Ramifications for Scholarly Research & Open Scholarship

Please join us at the next HELIOS Spotlight Series as we host a webinar exploring the ways in which generative artificial intelligence is and will continue to impact higher education and the research ecosystem. We are pleased to have three experts in this emerging space share their insights. Dr. Katie Shilton, Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and co-lead of the new NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) at UMD, will explore ethical considerations of AI. Dr. Susan Aaronson, research professor of international affairs and director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at George Washington University, will delve into data rights and governance. Dr. Molly Kleinman, Managing Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan, will share thoughts on AI's potential implications for scientific research. After prepared remarks, we will open the floor for moderated discussion.

Virtual Meeting

September 28, 2023 - 1 pm ET / 10 am PT

Speakers:

Dr. Katie Shilton, Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and co-lead of the new NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) at UMD

Dr. Susan Aaronson, research professor of international affairs and director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at George Washington University

Dr. Molly Kleinman, Managing Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan

Infrastructure Decision-Making Guide Launch Party

The Shared Open Scholarship Infrastructure Working Group is hosting a launch party in conjunction with the release of “Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Guide: Buy, Build or Partner.”

The working group created this guide to support higher education leadership in making informed infrastructure decisions that consider factors such as cost transparency, governance, and interoperability. The working group co-leads will walk through both the guide and strategies for deploying it on campus. Next, representatives from Cornell will share a case study demonstrating how they have practically applied the resource. The event will conclude with a brief presentation on the Public Access Submission System (PASS), an open source infrastructure project created at Johns Hopkins University.

Virtual Meeting

May 10, 2023 - 3 pm ET / 12 pm PT

Speakers:

Alicia Salaz (University of Oregon) and Cindi Logsdon (University of Louisville), Shared Infrastructure Working Group Co-leads

Mark Hurwitz, Sarah Schlagter, Wendy Kozlowski, Elaine Westbrooks (Cornell University)

Bill Branan (Johns Hopkins University)

Incentivizing Open in Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure, and Hiring

Colleges and universities aspire to advance discovery; promote responsible and ethical practices; foster collaboration within and across disciplines; train and nurture future generations of scholars and researchers; promote robust engagement in the research enterprise; nurture trust between science and society; inform the creation of sound public policy; and expand diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility in the research and scholarly endeavors. Open sharing of research and scholarship is a key enabler of these core aspirations.  

Join us as we discuss incentivizing open scholarship practices in hiring, reappointment, promotion, and tenure. In this conversation, we will explore:

  1. Current gaps in explicit incentives and support structures for assessing the contributions of scholarship to the various dimensions of publicness. 

  2. Growing efforts among HELIOS schools and/or departments currently working to transform research incentives and promote more inclusive knowledge creation. 

  3. Perspectives on rewards and incentives from researchers in different stages of their career.

Virtual Q&A

March 22, 2023 - 2 pm ET / 11 am PT

Moderator: Erin McKiernan, ORFG Community Manager

Speakers:

Alzada Tipton, Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Whitman College

Sara Weston, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

Thad Potter, President of National Association of Graduate - Professional Students

Open Source, Technology Transfer & Commercialization

Scholars are finding innovative ways to openly share projects, code, and software. But how does open source interplay with commercialization, technology transfer, and intellectual property considerations? Join us in the next HELIOS Spotlight Series as we:

  1. Explore specific open source projects like MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles and the intentional decision to open source the code to the public; 

  2. Introduce open hardware and how it might help technology transfer offices maximize the impact of academic research;

  3. Outline how Open Source Program Offices can serve as the organizational interface between researchers and technology transfer offices and create new forms of social impact.

Virtual Panel

November 15, 2022 - 12 pm ET / 9 am PT

Moderator: Drew Endy, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University

Speakers:

Alexander Amini - Postdoctoral researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Julieta Arancio - Postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University and University of Bath

Sayeed Choudhury - Director of the Open Source Program Office at Carnegie Mellon University

Data Sharing and Data Stewardship Initiatives

Responsible data stewardship, incentives for data sharing, and increased public access to research data serve the broader mission of the institution and society, stimulating collaboration, innovation, and trust in science.

Join HELIOS representative and University of Michigan’s Assistant Vice President for Research, Nick Wigginton, to learn about the university’s Research Data Stewardship Initiative. Sarah Nusser, professor emerita of statistics and former vice president for research at Iowa State University, will discuss her role in establishing Iowa State's Data Sharing Task Force and as a collaborator with the AAU-APLU Accelerating Public Access to Research Data (APARD) initiative.

Virtual Panel

August 23, 2022 - 3 pm ET / 12 pm PT

Moderated by: Geeta Swamy, HELIOS Strategic Lead and Duke University’s Associate Vice President for Research and Vice Dean for Scientific Integrity