Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, and Assumptions
Description
Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at MIT. Chris started her academic career as a Sociologist, but turned to a career in research libraries out of a desire to work on advancing more open and more equitable systems for knowledge sharing and production. In this talk, she will address the challenges and opportunities in the Open Science movement. She will discuss various interventions, at MIT and elsewhere, intended to promote Open Science, and highlight the often implicit theories and assumptions behind them. She will, of course, specifically address the recent University of California deal with Elsevier, and how it compares to the MIT approach. Finally, she will talk about the need for more research about research (science of science), to provide a robust evidence base to guide Open Science policies and practices.
Please use the following Zoom link for the colloquium.
https://mit.zoom.us/j/96747894791
Please join us for your after colloquium social hour at the link below:
https://events.mitbcs.info/e/colloquium-reception-04012021
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Additional Info
The MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition is a lecture series held weekly during the academic year and features a wide array of speakers from all areas of neuroscience and cognitive science research. The social teas that follow these colloquia bring together students, staff, and faculty to discuss the talk, as well as other research activities within Building 46, at MIT, and around the world. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. Colloquia are open to the community, and are held in MIT's Building 46, Room 3002 (Singleton Auditorium) at 4:00PM with a reception to follow.