Publications, presentations, and announcements

2025

Oct 21, 2025. Open Data at MIT event, co-sponsored by MIT Libraries and School of Science. Featured speaker: MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
Sep 5, 2025. Cross-disciplinary fellowships are a key to rigorous open and equitable science published as part of a 2023-2024 NSF EAGER grant.
July 26, 2025. Op-ed on recent cuts to science funding published in The Hill, co-authored by Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen.
July 4, 2025. Publication: The Principles of Open Science Monitoring published by the Open Science Monitoring Initiative. Micah Altman consulted as one of many co-authors as part of an international effort by OSMI and UNESCO to integrate feedback from more than 150 experts to build on the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.
May 21, 2025. Publication: Beliefs about social dynamics and open science by former postdoc Ashley J. Thomas, Chris Bourg, and Rebecca Saxe published in Royal Society Open Science. This research was supported in part by a Mellon Foundation grant.

2024

Oct 22, 2024. Open Data at MIT event, co-sponsored by MIT Libraries and School of Science. Learn more on the Libraries website.
Oct 22, 2024. Preprint: Topic Brief: Guidance for Reporting on Studies of Open and Equitable Scholarship published in SocArXiv.
Sep 1, 2024. A new cohort of postdoctoral researchers began work with CREOS this week. This work is funded by a Mellon Foundation grant.
Jul 28, 2024. Reproducible and Attributable Materials Science Curation Practices: A Case Study published in the International Journal of Digital Curation, and presented at the International Digital Curation Conference 2024.
May 30, 2024. Presentation on Generative AI for Trustworthy, Open, and Equitable Scholarship impact paper given at Tufts University by Sue Kriegsman and Erin Stalberg.
Mar 27, 2024. Generative AI for Trustworthy, Open, and Equitable Scholarship published by MIT Press. This impact paper was funded by exploratory grant funds from MIT, and work was conducted in collaboration with Nick Lindsay (MIT Press), Heather Sardis, and Erin Stalberg.
Mar 21, 2024. Conference presentation: Integrating Open and Equitable Research into Open Science, presented by Sue Kriegsman and Kristen Ratan at the Center for Open Science’s Year of Open Science Culminating Conference. This work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

2023

Sep 27, 2023. The National Science Foundation awards MIT Libraries an Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) grant of $300,000 to explore a transformative model for evaluating open science policies, practices, and interventions. The project is a collaboration between MIT Libraries’ CREOS and Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research (ICOR).
Sep 25, 2023. The Mellon Foundation awards MIT Libraries $500,000 for a second cohort in the postdoctoral research program on equitable and open scholarship. Beginning in 2024, CREOS will hire postdocs for two-year appointments, during which they will work with MIT faculty advisors and MIT Libraries staff to develop research projects under CREOS’ areas of focus.
Sep 18, 2023. MIT Libraries was selected from a competitive process to receive exploratory funding from MIT to write an impact paper and host a follow-up workshop on “Generative AI and Research Integrity,” led by Micah Altman, Chris Bourg, Sue Kriegsman, Nick Lindsay (MIT Press), Heather Sardis, and Erin Stalberg.
Aug 12, 2023. Interventions in scholarly communication: Design lessons from public health published on First Monday.
Jun 8, 2023. Evaluating peer review at NIH published in Science, in collaboration with Philip Cohen.
Jun 2, 2023. “Difficult Datasets in Digital Realms” presented by postdoc Corey M. Johnson at Open Data: Reuse, Redistribution, and Risk, June 2-3, 2022.
Jan 12, 2023. CREOS seeks MIT undergraduate student Research Assistants to contribute to “Understanding Citation Imbalances and Gendered Citation Practices.” Research assistants will contribute to data science aimed to study how citation imbalances might be amplified or reduced due to online visibility. Research assistants work directly with the Postdoctoral Researcher. For more information, or to apply, see the position posting.

2022

Nov 29, 2022. CREOS seeks MIT undergraduate student Research Assistants to contribute to “Data Mining and Visualization for Open and Inclusive Scholarship.” Research assistants will contribute to web mining, social media mining, and data mining aimed to measure open and inclusive scholarship. Research assistants work directly with the Principal Investigator. For more information, or to apply, see the position posting.
Oct 31, 2022. CREOS postdocs’ research featured in Bibliotech, “A Glimpse into CREOS Research.”
Oct 29, 2022. CREOS presented a short paper on project design for the Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship project at the 85th ASIST annual conference, in Pittsburgh, themed “Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re-Imagining an Information-Resilient Society.
Oct 14, 2022. IMLS-supported Design paper published: “Designing Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship.”
Sept 9, 2022. CREOS presented an abstract of research on diversity and inclusion in editorial boards for the Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship project at the 9th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.
July 25, 2022. Dr. Micah Altman’s CNI Briefing on the IMLS Community Tracking Indicators project.
July 18, 2022. White paper: “Reproducible and Attributable Material Science Workflows” in collaboration with Ye Li and Sara Wilson (former CREOS UROP, current Material Science PhD candidate) posted to MetaArxiv.
Jun 1, 2022. CREOS presented on project plans at the annual ACRL-NEC conference, themed “Connection, Disconnection, Reconnection: How Are We Building Community Now?”
Jan 31, 2022. The Scholarly Knowledge Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field of Information published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics.

2021

Dec 26, 2021. Preprints and Pandemics: Interventions into the Dynamic System of Scholarly Communication released on MetaArxiv.
Aug 23, 2021. “Data Literacy for Entrepreneurs” published by ALA Press.
July 30, 2021. The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awards MIT $321,557 to create measures based on open bibliometric data, web and social-media mining, and community input. The project, submitted by CREOS, titled Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship will produce standardized indicators that describe the volume and types of open science output systematically over time.
June 2021. CREOS announces the hire of three postdoctoral associates as a part of the Mellon Foundation grant.
May 25, 2021. CREOS announces the formation of an External Advisory Committee.
February 16, 2021. Micah Altman did a brief presentation on behalf of CREOS for an OASPA webinar on open book metadata. Slides are available here.
February 2021. Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs is published to DSpace by Micah Altman as the next step in the Open Access Monograph Research.

2020

September 30, 2020, The Economics of Scholarly Monographs, a Bibliography is published to this website as a part of Open Access Monograph research.
May 6, 2020, MIT receives grant from The Mellon Foundation to support postdoctoral research program

2019

December 19, 2019, Being scientific about open science design (We need more science in our open science), slide deck for BITSS 2019, full presentation (approximately 4:04:00 mark in video)
December 17, 2019, Cornell University, arXiv.org, Selecting efficient and reliable preservation strategies: modeling long-term information integrity using large-scale hierarchical discrete event simulation
November 27, 2019, Materials Connect, What do you mean by “data”? What do you mean by “share”?
July 25, 2019, Library Journal, MIT Libraries Launches Center for Research in Equitable and Open Scholarship
January 24, 2019, Library Journal, MIT’s Grand Challenges Issues Final Report