Link Roundup October 2021

Cameron Cook

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released “Developing a Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices” which summarizes the proceedings of a workshop by the same name. This toolkit is aimed at university leadership and the workshop’s goal was “…to identify paths to growing the nascent coalition of stakeholders committed to reenvisioning credit/reward systems (e.g., academic hiring, tenure and promotion, and grants)to fully incentivize open science practices.”

A second round of funding is now open for the Library Collections Enhancement Initiative, a program of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education.

The call for proposals for the 2022 UW-Madison Data Science Research Bazaar are now open!

Jennifer Patiño

International Open Access Week is a time for “the wider community to coordinate in taking action to make openness the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work.” This year’s theme is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” Open Access Week will be held October 25-31 and you can find out more about how UW-Madison Libraries support Open Scholarship here.

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Library of Congress is launching Season 2 of La Biblioteca podcast, a six-part series titled Exploring Latinx Civil Rights in the United States, which focuses on major civil rights cases and events.