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CREOS awarded new grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

By on August 19, 2021

On July 31, 2021, CREOS was awarded a grant from IMLS to conduct research and develop open, reliable, standardized indicators that go beyond measures of “overall impact” to advance the understanding of who is, and who is not, participating in open scholarship. The indicators will support the evaluation of large-scale interventions, benchmark comparisons, and monitor the health of the scholarly information ecosystem over time. Micah Altman will lead this three-year project that begins in September 2021.

There is evidence that scholarly processes have bias and create barriers to inclusion; more openness in scholarly communication is needed. Progress towards a better scholarly ecosystem requires standard, reliable measures of the desired attributes of a better system. This project will produce standardized indicators that describe the volume and types of open science output systematically over time.

IMLS awarded $321,557 to create measures based on open bibliometric data, web and social-media mining, and community input. 

You can read the full proposal on the IMLS web site.

CREOS hires three postdoctoral associates as a part of Mellon Foundation award

By on August 16, 2021

The 2020 Mellon Foundation award to CREOS to fund three postdoctoral associates for two years each is ramping up for September 2021 after a one-year delay due to the pandemic. Faculty members Stephanie Ann Frampton, Roger Levy, and Rebecca Saxe, along with CREOS staff and library staff Ye Li and Mark Szarko, will be thought partners and mentor the incoming postdocs.

  • Corey Johnson, PhD, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, will work with Stephanie Frampton, associate professor of literature and faculty director of the MIT Programs in Digital Humanities, to conduct a research project to advance equity and accessibility of archives and special collections. Johnson is considering a focus on digital access to indigenous collections when the original materials were only intended for a limited audience.
  • Suman Maity, PhD, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, will work with Professor Roger Levy in Brain and Cognitive Science to conduct a research project on computational social science for scholarly communications and open and equitable science.
  • Ashley Thomas, PhD, Cognitive Science, UC Irvine will work with faculty member Rebecca Saxe, John W. Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, to develop a new course at MIT and conduct research on tools for rigorous and reproducible research.

For more information about Johnson, Maity, and Thomas, please check the CREOS website. We are looking forward to having them join us in September and October.