{"id":647,"date":"2025-09-29T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/?page_id=647"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:57:42","slug":"announcements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/research\/announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications, presentations, and announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan 22, 2026. Op-ed on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/expertise-shouldnt-be-a-bad-word-expert-consensus-guides-science-and-society-271467\">distrust of expertise in science<\/a> published in The Conversation, co-authored by Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Oct 21, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/opendata\/open-data-mit-home\/mit-prize\/\">Open Data at MIT<\/a> event, co-sponsored by MIT Libraries and School of Science. Featured speaker: MIT President Sally Kornbluth.<\/li>\n<li>Sep 5, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/162606\">Cross-disciplinary fellowships are a key to rigorous open and equitable science<\/a> published as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/mit-libraries-receives-grant-from-national-science-foundation-to-explore-open-science-evaluations-with-icor\/38173\/\">2023-2024 NSF EAGER grant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>July 26, 2025. Op-ed on <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/5419855-trump-administration-cuts-science-funding\/\">recent cuts to science funding<\/a> published in The Hill, co-authored by Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen.<\/li>\n<li>July 4, 2025. Publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/17143859\">The Principles of Open Science Monitoring<\/a> 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.<\/li>\n<li>May 21, 2025. Publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.230061\">Beliefs about social dynamics and open science<\/a> by former postdoc Ashley J. Thomas, Chris Bourg, and Rebecca Saxe published in <i>Royal Society Open Science<\/i>. This research was supported in part by a Mellon Foundation grant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Oct 22, 2024. Open Data at MIT event, co-sponsored by MIT Libraries and School of Science. Learn more on the <a href=\"\/opendata\/open-data-mit-home\/mit-prize\/\">Libraries website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oct 22, 2024. Preprint: <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/socarxiv\/xwsn9_v1\">Topic Brief: Guidance for Reporting on Studies of Open and Equitable Scholarship<\/a> published in SocArXiv.<\/li>\n<li>Sep 1, 2024. A new cohort of <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/about\/postdocs\/\">postdoctoral researchers<\/a> began work with CREOS this week. This work is funded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/mit-libraries-receives-grant-from-mellon-foundation-to-support-postdoctoral-research-program\/38129\/\">Mellon Foundation grant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 28, 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/metaarxiv\/93a4e_v1\">Reproducible and Attributable Materials Science Curation Practices: A Case Study<\/a> published in the <i>International Journal of Digital Curation<\/i>, and presented at the International Digital Curation Conference 2024.<\/li>\n<li>May 30, 2024. Presentation on <a href=\"https:\/\/mit-genai.pubpub.org\/pub\/s793ca1i\/release\/1?readingCollection=bc5ea8fc\">Generative AI for Trustworthy, Open, and Equitable Scholarship<\/a> impact paper given at Tufts University by Sue Kriegsman and Erin Stalberg.<\/li>\n<li>Mar 27, 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/mit-genai.pubpub.org\/pub\/s793ca1i\/release\/1\">Generative AI for Trustworthy, Open, and Equitable Scholarship<\/a> published by MIT Press. This impact paper was funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2023\/mit-scholars-awarded-seed-grants-generative-ai-0918\">exploratory grant funds from MIT<\/a>, and work was conducted in collaboration with Nick Lindsay (MIT Press), Heather Sardis, and Erin Stalberg.<\/li>\n<li>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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cos.io\/yos-conference\">Year of Open Science Culminating Conference<\/a>. This work is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/mit-libraries-receives-grant-from-national-science-foundation-to-explore-open-science-evaluations-with-icor\/38173\/\">National Science Foundation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sep 27, 2023. The National Science Foundation <a href=\"\/news\/mit-libraries-receives-grant-from-national-science-foundation-to-explore-open-science-evaluations-with-icor\/38173\/\">awards<\/a> 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&#8217; CREOS and Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research (ICOR).<\/li>\n<li>Sep 25, 2023. The Mellon Foundation <a href=\"\/news\/mit-libraries-receives-grant-from-mellon-foundation-to-support-postdoctoral-research-program\/38129\/\">awards<\/a> 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\u2019 areas of focus.<\/li>\n<li>Sep 18, 2023. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT Libraries was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2023\/mit-scholars-awarded-seed-grants-generative-ai-0918\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">selected from a competitive process to receive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> exploratory funding from MIT to write an impact paper and host a follow-up workshop on \u201cGenerative AI and Research Integrity,\u201d led by Micah Altman, Chris Bourg, Sue Kriegsman, Nick Lindsay (MIT Press), Heather Sardis, and Erin Stalberg.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Aug 12, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/firstmonday.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/12941\">Interventions in scholarly communication: Design lessons from public health<\/a> published on <i>First Monday<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Jun 8, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adi1570\">Evaluating peer review at NIH<\/a> published in <i>Science<\/i>, in collaboration with Philip Cohen.<\/li>\n<li>Jun 2, 2023. \u201cDifficult Datasets in Digital Realms\u201d presented by postdoc Corey M. Johnson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amphilsoc.org\/open-data-2022\"><i>Open Data: Reuse, Redistribution, and Risk<\/i><\/a>, June 2-3, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Jan 12, 2023. CREOS seeks <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT undergraduate student Research Assistants to contribute to &#8220;Understanding Citation Imbalances and Gendered Citation Practices.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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. <\/span>For more information, or to apply, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/student-jobs\/creos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">position posting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nov 29, 2022. CREOS seeks MIT undergraduate student Research Assistants to contribute to \u201cData Mining and Visualization for Open and Inclusive Scholarship.\u201d 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. <\/span>For more information, or to apply, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/student-jobs\/creos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">position posting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oct 31, 2022. CREOS postdocs&#8217; research <a href=\"\/news\/bibliotech\/glimpse-creos-research\/\">featured<\/a> in <em>Bibliotech, &#8220;<\/em>A Glimpse into CREOS Research.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oct 29, 2022. CREOS presented a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/metaarxiv\/z495g\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">short paper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on project design for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/IMLSindicators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> project at the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/am22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 85th ASIST annual conference<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in Pittsburgh, themed \u201cCrisis, Transition, Resilience: Re-Imagining an Information-Resilient Society.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Oct 14, 2022. IMLS-supported Design paper published: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/pra2.640\">Designing Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sept 9, 2022. CREOS presented an abstract of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dainty-bonbon-9039e8.netlify.app\/publication\/altman-cohen-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">research on diversity and inclusion in editorial boards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/IMLSindicators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> project at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/peerreviewcongress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">July 25, 2022. Dr. Micah Altman\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cni.org\/resources\/pbvs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNI Briefing <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on the IMLS <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cni.org\/topics\/assessment\/community-tracking-indicators-for-open-and-inclusive-scholarship\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Tracking Indicators project.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 18, 2022. White paper: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/metaarxiv\/93a4e\/\">Reproducible and Attributable Material Science Workflows<\/a>&#8221; in collaboration with Ye Li and Sara Wilson (former CREOS UROP, current Material Science PhD candidate) posted to MetaArxiv.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jun 1, 2022. CREOS <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRlXCDBdwzPT6741V6AGICRnCOjQ1WCHJM0Tpm-5Cvyl8puUXLu_NoRiLB1hOEeM91lbRul7PP6jwgE\/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">presented<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on project plans at the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/acrlnec.org\/annual-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACRL-NEC conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, themed \u201cConnection, Disconnection, Reconnection: How Are We Building Community Now?&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jan 31, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/frma.2021.751553\/full\">The Scholarly Knowledge Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field of Information<\/a> published in <em>Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2021<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dec 26, 2021. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5210\/fm.v28i8.12941\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preprints and Pandemics: Interventions into the Dynamic System of Scholarly Communication<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MetaArxiv<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Aug 23, 2021. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/socarxiv\/94auj\/\">Data Literacy for Entrepreneurs<\/a>\u201d published by ALA Press.<\/li>\n<li>July 30, 2021. The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) <a href=\"\/news\/creos-awarded-grant\/32268\/\">awards MIT<\/a> $321,557 to create measures based on open bibliometric data, web and social-media mining, and community input. The project, submitted by CREOS, titled <em>Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship<\/em> will produce standardized indicators that describe the volume and types of open science output systematically over time.<\/li>\n<li>June 2021. CREOS <a href=\"\/news\/creos-hires-three\/32262\/\">announces<\/a> the hire of <a href=\"\/creos\/about\/postdocs\/\">three postdoctoral associates<\/a> as a part of the Mellon Foundation grant.<\/li>\n<li>May 25, 2021. CREOS <a href=\"\/news\/creos-announces-external\/32103\/\">announces<\/a> the formation of an <a href=\"\/creos\/about\/external-advisory-committee\/\">External Advisory Committee<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>February 16, 2021. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Micah Altman did a brief presentation on behalf of CREOS for an OASPA webinar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oaspa.org\/webinar-open-book-metadata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on open book metadata<\/span><\/a>. Slides are available <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1kpfTsydGOVSG-hdTn-3qTWhb-ITnHrUu3aooFj6Drfw\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>February 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/129690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs<\/em><\/a> is published to DSpace by Micah Altman as the next step in the Open Access Monograph Research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>September 30, 2020, <a href=\"\/creos\/research\/economics-of-scholarly-monographs\/\"><em>The Economics of Scholarly Monographs, a Bibliography<\/em><\/a> is published to this website as a part of Open Access Monograph research.<\/li>\n<li>May 6, 2020, <a href=\"\/news\/receives-grant-mellon\/30919\/\">MIT receives grant from The Mellon Foundation to support postdoctoral research program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>December 19, 2019, <em>Being scientific about open science design (We need more science in our open science),<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/tiny.cc\/BITSS2019Altman\">slide deck for BITSS 2019<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/berkeley-haas.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=d4e8900d-e96a-4bd9-98f5-ab110004b7da\">full presentation<\/a> (approximately 4:04:00 mark in video)<\/li>\n<li>December 17, 2019, <em>Cornell University, arXiv.org<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1912.07908\">Selecting efficient and reliable preservation strategies: modeling long-term information integrity using large-scale hierarchical discrete event simulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 27, 2019, <em>Materials Connect<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/materials.typepad.com\/materialsconnect\/2019\/11\/what-do-you-mean-by-data-what-do-you-mean-by-share-.html\">What do you mean by &#8220;data&#8221;? What do you mean by &#8220;share&#8221;?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 25, 2019,\u00a0 <em>Library Journal<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory=mit-libraries-launches-center-for-research-in-equitable-and-open-scholarship\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT Libraries Launches Center for Research in Equitable and Open Scholarship<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 24, 2019, <em>Library Journal<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory=MIT-Grand-Challenges-Issues-Final-Report\">MIT&#8217;s Grand Challenges Issues Final Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Jan 22, 2026. Op-ed on distrust of expertise in science published in The Conversation, co-authored by Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen. 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. 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