Why Now?
The time is ripe to look at Open Work across communities to compare, contrast,
and cross-pollinate best practices.
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The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for funding to support “Open Source Ecosystems” to improve sustainability, impact, and translation of “open source research products.”
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The National Institutes of Health has released new policy to improve and refine the sharing of, and collaboration around, research data.
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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) have issued a tool kit to improve and encourage university support of Open Scholarship.
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Across the European Union, the creation of national policies on Open Science and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) for Government is accelerating.
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OSPOs have been created by a few universites to utilize techniques pioneered in private industry to better facilitate academic Open Work.
Join Us
Open@RIT invites professionals from the Academic, Research and Open Source
communities for a two and a half day gathering to explore topics such as:
- Measures of value, impact and translation of Open Work
- Policies around support and promotion for success in that work
- Building, sustaining and promoting Open Communities and Ecosystems
- Managing information overload and ferment in the field
- Existing practices and resources provided by academia to support Open Scholarship and industry
Interested in Learning More?
The Open Work in Academia Summit is an event created by Open@RIT, a Key Research Center of the University that serves as its Open Programs Office.
The Summit is sponsored, in part, by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.