The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base: An Open Science Platform

• In Event: Building a Culture of Open Science in the Education Community: Data on Adoption and a Platform for Change

Abstract

The goal of the Open Scholarship Knowledge Base (OSKB) is to broadly collate and disseminate the excellent content developed by the open scholarship community, helping colleagues adopt and keep up to date with open practices. Hosted by the Center for Open Science, the OSKB is an openly accessible, community-driven resource that is sustained by contributions from fellow scholars. The community can add new materials and ideas, and work with the larger open research community to keep track of the best practices as they evolve. Navigating the abundance of rich open scholarship resources across websites has proven to be a scattered and inefficient experience. By building a living resource, the OSKB aims to reduce knowledge gaps and increase the speed with which transparent research practices are adopted in the field.

The community collects, reviews, consolidates, and organizes content to support the education and application of open scholarship practices for all aspects of the research lifecycle. All content is available through our OER Commons portal via https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/oskb. In the spirit of openness, we welcome a diversity of ideas, tools, and methods, as well as researchers from a multitude of fields and backgrounds. Educational content (tutorials, workshop materials, videos, papers, and more) generated by contributors from many disciplines and regions will be organized and maintained as openly accessible modules and resources. Users may search materials related to their interests with the ability to discover topics pertaining to their discipline, role, method, and question. Users can also contribute missing resources, refine the metadata, and curate learning pathways to help improve the platform.

This presentation will focus on the impetus for building an open scholarship community, the types of resources and communities we offer, and the challenges for diversifying the types of materials and scholars featured in the OSKB. We will demonstrate the functionality of the OSKB and provide an overview of the collections and user groups available through the OSKB and highlight existing resources in the knowledge base. We will end with the identified diversity needs of the OSKB and encourage audience members to engage in the community.

Author

• Erin M. Buchanan, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology