May 11, 2021

Get Inspired at the Open Scholarship Commons

What is the Open Scholarship Commons?

In fall of 2020, the Libraries launched a new virtual space–the Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) a hub for cross-disciplinary knowledge creation and dissemination– supporting students and faculty in the use of digital tools to openly share research and safely integrate new digital pedagogy techniques into the classroom. From data visualization to text mining to open publishing and scholarly communication, we have been so excited by the interest in our virtual services. With nearly 700 sign-ups across 9 different events, the OSC’s programs have been a great success during remote learning!  

What’s New?

1. We recently added Open Education & Open Pedagogy services, offering easy access to information for those interested in creating course materials that are free for students and/or are interested in engaging students as creators of information. 
2. Through the Tateuchi East Asia Library, the OSC is supporting Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies introducing digital resources and methodologies relevant to scholars across East Asian studies fields. This quarter we are exploring Creative Geovisualization and creating Geo Documents with ATLAS.ti.

Welcome: eScience Institute and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities 

We’re also pleased to announce that eScience Institute and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities have joined the Libraries as partners of the OSC! We are excited to bring eScience’s expertise as a hub of data-intensive discovery to the OSC as we explore avenues to  support data creation and open data sharing. The Simpson Center has long been a strong leader in supporting cross-disciplinary open digital public work and we look forward to complimenting their efforts in this realm. The OSC will continue to add additional campus partners to our space in the coming year as we move towards our goal of becoming a campus destination for connection, supporting and offering services in new knowledge creation and dissemination with those interested in creating and sharing research and teaching these skills to our future global citizens.

Be sure to follow the OSC event’s calendar and Libraries social media as new events and workshops are added for spring quarter or become inspired by open pedagogy ideas and open projects created by colleagues on the UW Seattle campus. Your participation with the virtual OSC will help shape future offerings and the eventual physical space that will be designed once campus re-opens.