Welcome!
Welcome to the Open Scholarship and Research Impact Challenge! This asynchronous course includes a wide range of learning opportunities and activities that will give you the practical tools to make your research more accessible and impactful, more reproducible, more connected to the public welfare, and more in line with your personal values. Start the Impact Challenge on Canvas now!
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone at the University of Pittsburgh who creates scholarly works, including publications, data, protocols, etc. Whether you're just beginning your academic journey or are an experienced researcher, there is something here for you to learn!
What's the structure of this course?
This course contains six modules. You can complete any that are of interest to you, in any order:
- Publishing Open Access
- Sharing Scholarship
- Sharing Data and Code
- Sharing Scholarship Best Practices
- Optimizing Your ORCiD Profile
- Communicating Scholarly Impact
How can I earn a badge?
If you'd like to earn a badge for a module, you must:
- Visit all the pages in the module
- Earn all points on all quizzes and assignments in the module
Once you have completed these requirements, your badge will be issued automatically (it may take a few days).
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe how open scholarship benefits authors, the scientific community, and the public.
- Identify where to share your scholarly works and upload them using best practices.
- Manage your scholarly works with ORCiD.
- Communicate your work's impact to different audiences using various relevant indicators and tools.
Meet Your Instructors
- Name: Stephen Gabrielson
- Job title: Scholarly Communication Librarian
- Library: Health Sciences Library System
- Email: sgabrielson@pitt.edu
- Modules: Publishing Open Access, Sharing Scholarship, Optimizing Your ORCiD Profile, Communicating Scholarly Impact
- Name: Aimee S. Jenkins
- Job title: Lead Librarian for Bibliometrics
- Library: University Library System
- Email: aimees@pitt.edu
- Modules: Optimizing Your ORCiD Profile, Communicating Scholarly Impact
- Name: Melissa Ratajeski
- Job title: Assistant Director for Data and Publishing Services
- Library: Health Sciences Library System
- Email: mar@pitt.edu
- Modules: Sharing Data and Code
- Name: Helenmary Sheridan
- Job title: Data Services Librarian
- Library: Health Sciences Library System
- Email: helenmary@pitt.edu
- Modules: Publishing Open Access, Sharing Scholarship, Sharing Data and Code, Sharing Scholarship Best Practices
Other authors who have contributed to this course:
- Lauren B. Collister (Publishing Open Access module and the "Definitions" page in this Welcome module)
- Dominic Bordelon (Sharing Data & Code module)