Samantha Teplitzky

https://samteplitzky.github.io/cv

Open Science Librarian & Community Builder
Interests: Open Science, Data, Reproducibility, Transparency in Research Workflows, Inclusive Community Building related to these topics

Email / Scholar / ORCID / BlueSky

Recent Projects

Preserving Executable Research Content (PERC) - Force11 Working Group (2025- )

Summary
Co-leading working group with Rowan Cockett (Curvenote) to create guidelines and frameworks ensuring long-term preservation of interactive and executable content in the scientific record. Details: https://force11.org/group/preserving-executable-research-content-challenges-frameworks-and-best-practices/

Open Science Team Agreements (2022- )

Summary
The Open Science Team Agreement template grew out of collaborative work from the Bay Area Open Science Group. The template gives researchers and other stakeholders a practical tool to understand and advocate for open science practices at a broader scale within their laboratory, department, or community.

Links

• Team Agreement - + Google Doc + Overleaf versions
• Research Community Outreach with the Open Science Team Agreement - associated Carpentries lesson - https://ucla-imls-open-sci.info/TeamAgreements/

Seismica Journal (2021- )

Summary
Seismica is a new Diamond Open Access Journal launching in Spring 2022.

• Founding Open Science Editor; responsible for promoting and adapting open science, data access and inclusive workflows.
• Conducted first demographic survey of Seismica board members, editors, authors and reviewers (Winter 2024).
• Shepherded application for Impact Factor (Fall 2024).

Geoscience Open Educational Resources (OER) Study (2020-2021)

Summary
This study examines the creation and adoption of OER in the Geosciences with a goal of providing guidance for institutions, libraries and librarians who support and fund OER initiatives. An environmental scan, employed to identify and characterize available college-level OER in this discipline, provided a baseline for the study. Analysis of the scan along with a review of OER, textbook and field guide standards informs a new set of proposed guidelines for Geoscience OER, and offers a call for community feedback.

Links

• Manuscript (in EarthArXiV) - https://doi.org/10.31223/X5J90G
• Guidelines Table - https://zenodo.org/record/5542306
• Environmental Scan/Data - https://zenodo.org/record/5542323

Earth Science Citation Replication Project (2019-2020)

Summary
This project had three objectives:

• Replicate methods from P. White’s 2019 study of Earth Science researcher citation practices.
• Calculate programmatically whether researchers in Earth Science rely on a smaller subset of literature than estimated by the 80/20 rule (note: The 80/20 rule states that 80% of publications cite just 20% of the literature).
• Determine whether these reproducible citation analysis methods can be used to analyze open access uptake.
  

We also set out to “walk the walk” and employ the same research workflows as librarians that students, faculty and researchers we support confront in their work.

Links

• Preregistration - https://osf.io/u49zv
• Article - https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1194
• Data & Code - https://github.com/samteplitzky/Earth-Science-Citation-Replication-Project
• Archived Repository - https://zenodo.org/record/4750155

Library Experience

UC Berkeley Libraries, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 7/2011-present

• Open Science Librarian (9/2019-present)
  
  • Promote open science tools and principles; provide related outreach to researchers and students; piloted open workflows workshop series
  • Launched and moderated Bay Area Open Science Group along with colleagues from UCSF and Stanford
    • Co-created Open Science Team Agreements, an adaptable template for teams interested in instituting open science practices
  • Open access investments working group member (Spring 2020): Established criteria, best practices, and processes to advance open access investment decision-making to guide Library scholarly resources investments in sustainable open access publishing.
  • Created VOLT, Virtual Online Library Tutorials to promote open research workflows available to students during COVID-19 closures.
  • Library liaison to the Earth and Planetary Sciences and Astronomy (2023-) Departments, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (ongoing)
• Earth and Physical Sciences Librarian (3/2014-9/2019)
  
  • Performed collection development and collection management for Earth and Planetary Science, Physics, and Astronomy departments. Performed collection development for Chemistry (2015-16, 2018-19).
  • Provided reference and instructional services in the form of orientations, consultations, classes, online subject guides.
  • Cultivated community through Maps and More, map-related pop-up exhibit series at the Earth Sciences & Map Library.
  • Served on implementation team for UC Open Access Policy (2015-16)
• Reference Assistant Biosciences and Natural Resources Library (7/2011-2/2014)
  

Agricultural Archives Project, LSCE, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France

• Project Researcher (9/2009-3/2010)
  
  • Identified historical agricultural records in France.
  • Performed research at Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) and other agencies.
  • Created a database of fertilizer use for corn, wheat and other crops for the 20th century.

Stanford University Library, Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections, Stanford, CA

• Earth Sciences Librarian and Bibliographer (2/2005-7/2008)
  

Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley, CA

• Reference Librarian (1/2003-1/2005)
  

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

• Junior Fellow (Summer 2003)
  

Publications

• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2025). Seismica’s data and code policy in action. Seismica. https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v4i1.1561
  
• Teplitzky, S., Dahdul, W., Fairhurst, V., Kingsley, D., Scotti, K., Sutherland, H., & Whalen, S. (2024). Navigating the Complexities of Open Science: All Sticks, No Carrots. Force11 2024, UCLA. Zenodo.
  
• Teplitzky, S. (2023). Generation open. In M. Bonn, J. Bolick, & W. Cross (Eds.), Scholarly communication librarianship and open knowledge (p. 528). ACRL. https://bit.ly/SCLAOK
  
• Mark, H., Ragon, T., Funning, G., Hicks, S., Rowe, C., Teplitzky, Samantha, Convers, J., Karasozen, E., Corona-Fernandez, R. D., & Fakereng, A. (2023). Editorial workflow of a community-led, all-volunteer scientific journal: Lessons from the launch of Seismica. Seismica. https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v2i2.1091
  
• Bennett, A., Garside, D., Gould van Praag, C., Hostler, T., Kherroubi Garcia, I., Plomp, E., Schettino, A., Teplitzky, S., & Ye, H. (2023). A manifesto for rewarding and recognising Team Infrastructure Roles. Journal of Trial and Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr8
  
• Rowe, C., Teplitzky, S., Funning, G., Hicks, S., Convers, J., van den Ende, M., Ragon, T., Mark, H., Agius, M., Lange, J., Rychert, C., & Lecocq, T. (2022). The launch of Seismica: A seismic shift in publishing. Seismica. https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v1i1.255
  
• Dyess, B. & Teplitzky, S. (2022) Developing a collaborative diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) guide: a library-department partnership in the Earth Sciences. Journal of Map and Geography Libraries. https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2022.2080790
  
• Pourret, O., Jackson, C., Goldstein, E., Teplitzky, S., & Hillman, J. (2022) “Modern Geoscience Publishing.” Geoscientist: The Magazine of the Geological Society of London, May 16, 2022. https://geoscientist.online/sections/viewpoint/modern-geoscience-publishing/
  
• Sackmann, A., Foster, E., Teplitzky, S., Neeser, A. & Gluser, A. (2021) Expanding Research Data Management to UC Berkeley researchers: a targeted approach to outreach and instruction, in J. Bauder, (Ed.), Teaching Data Management (p 177-192). ALA Editions. https://doi.org/10.25350/B5X592
  
• Quigley, B. Q., Loo, J. L., Ngo, L., Powell, S., Teplitzky, S., Sackmann, A., & Rupp, K. K. (2021). Training, Support, and Connection for Student Library Employees in a Tiered Reference Service Model. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 59(3/4), 195-203. https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.59.3/4.7720
  
• Teplitzky, S., Hardy, S., Johnson, K., Tolliver, R., Tschirhart, L., & Vardakosta, I. (2021). A Review of Open Educational Resources in the Geosciences: Guidelines and Criteria. EarthArXiv. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5J90G
  
• Teplitzky, S., Newcome, E., Powell, S., & Sackmann, A. (2021). Open Science and Data Management: Introducing Graduate Students to Research Workflows in a Local Context, in B. Buljung & E. Bongiovanni (Eds.), Scholarly Communications Cookbook (p 303-306). Association of College & Research Libraries. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kj084vz
  
• Teplitzky, S. et al. (2021). Introducing Reproducibility to Citation Analysis: a Case Study in the Earth Sciences. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 10(2). http://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1194
  
• Vasilevsky, N. A., Hosseini, M., Teplitzky, S., Ilik, V., Mohammadi, E., Schneider, J., … & Holmes, K. L. (2021). Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles. Accountability in Research, 28(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1779591
  
• Woods, N., Vandegrift, M., & Teplitzky, S. (2021, February 16). Keeping Up With… Open Science. Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/open_science
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2018). Jupyter Notebooks, Earth Science & Libraries: what’s happening at UC Berkeley. GSIS Newsletter, December 2018, p. 7. http://www.geoinfo.org/GSIS_Newsletter/201812.pdf
  
• Teplitzky, S. (2017). Open data, [open] access: linking data sharing and article sharing in the Earth Sciences. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 5(1). http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2150
  
• Teplitzky, S.J. (2017) Review of the book The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene, by Oswald J. Schmitz. Science Books and Films, Vol/Issue 5304, p. 147
  
• Teplitzky, S.J. (2017) Review of the book The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future, by Peter Moore. Science Books and Films, Vol/Issue 5301, 19.
  
• Teplitzky, S.J. (2016) Review of the book The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature’s Most Magnificent Fury, by John Dvorak. Science Books and Films, Vol/Issue 5207, p. 271.
  
• Teplitzky, S., & Phillips, M. (2016). Evaluating the Impact of Open Access at Berkeley: Results from the 2015 Survey of Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) Funding Recipients. College & Research Libraries, 77(5), 568-581. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.77.5.568
  
• Arnold, J., Chittenden, L., Ellis, K. D., Eubanks, J., Godwin, I., McDonald, E., … & Teplitzky, S. (2007). What’s the Ballyhoo about Blogs?. Serials Review, 33(3), 175-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2007.05.008
  
• Contributor to Resources for College Libraries in the “Geology” section; selected titles for climatology. 2007.
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha, “Sonoma County and the Living Wage: A Study of the Impact of a Living Wage Ordinance on the Cities of Santa Rosa and Petaluma,” UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research & Education and UC Institute for Labor and Employment, August 2002.
  
• Cox, R., Atkinson, R. K., Bear, B. R., Brandriss, M. E., Chokel, C. B., Comstock, J. C., … & Willis, M. P. (2000). Changes in a fringing reef complex over a thirty-year period: coral loss and lagoon infilling at Mary Creek, St. John, US Virgin Islands. Bulletin of marine science, 66(1), 269-277.
  

Presentations

• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2024, September 18). A panel on Diamond Open Access journals in the geosciences. AGU EPSP Connects monthly seminar series. https://www.youtube.com/live/htYkqvHkNVo
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha, Dahdul, W., Scotti, K., & Sutherland, H. (2024, August 1). Navigating the Complexities of Open Science: Big Dreams, Future Plans. Presented at Force11 2024. UCLA.
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2024, March 22). Research community outreach with the open science team agreement. Year of Open Science Culminating Conference. Virtual. http://osf.io/3ycgf
  
• Dahdul, W., Deardorff, A., Otsuji, R., & Teplitzky, S. (2024, February 13). Cultivating Collaboration: Getting Started with Open Research. UC Love Data Week 2024 (Virtual).
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha, Convers, J., Funning, G., Hicks, S., Karasozen, E., & Rowe, C. (2023, December 11). Shaping the future with Seismica: Building a sustainable diamond open access researcher-run journal. AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, CA. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10383740
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2023, December 10). Publishing open in the earth sciences: History, norms, new directions. Shaping the future with Researcher-run journals, San Francisco, CA.
  
• Teplitzky, S. (2023, September 19). Seismica: Open science and community building in a new diamond open access journal. Presented at Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association 2023 Conference (Virtual). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cc6f8bx
  
• Teplitzky, S and Deardorff, A. (2023, July 26). Open Science, Community Building, and Co-Creation with the Bay Area Open Science Group. Keynote presentation at STEM Librarians Collaborative Meeting (Virtual)
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2022, October). Seismica: Open science and community building in a new diamond open access journal. Presented at GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-379123
  
• Lenhardt, W. C., Coward, C., Erdmann, C., Meyers, N. K., & Teplitzky, S. (2021, December). Climbing the FAIR Data Mountain: Librarians as Knowledge Sharing Mountaineers. In AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU.
  
• Teplitzky, S., Borghi, J., Deardorff, A. (2021, December 9) Growing a new Open Science Community, the Bay Area Open Science Group. Presented at Force11 2021 (Virtual).
  
• Teplitzky, S. with D. Borsboom, P. Michelucci, M. Hind. (2021, November 10) Invited Panel: Open Science & Good Research Practice, Third Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Delft, Netherlands/Virtual.
  
• Newcome, E., Dyess, B., Muhr, H., Powell, S., Teplitzky, S. (2021, October 27) Mapping the Bay: Engaging students and community during the pandemic and beyond. UC Libraries Forum (Virtual).
  
• Teplitzky, S., Tolliver, R., Tschirhart, L. (2021, October 22) Open Educational Resources in the Geosciences: Guidelines and Criteria. GSIS Annual Meeting (Virtual).
  
• Teplitzky, S., & Tranfield, W. (2021, July 27–August 3). Introduction to open and reproducible practices in Earth Sciences. Case studies in the Earth Sciences: Current approaches to publishing, data and computation. Force 11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI), Virtual
• Teplitzky, S., Vollmer, T., Lair, S., Narock, T. & Gonder, J. (2021, April). Open access investment at the local level: Sharing diverse tactics to improve access and affordability. Presented at ACRL 2021 (Virtual).
  
• Teplitzky, S. (2021, January 13). Virtual Online Library Tutorials (vOLT), an outreach project with Jupyterbook. Presented at Science Librarianship in the time of COVID (Virtual).
  
• Teplitzky, S. (2020, October 30). GeoScience Information Society Annual Meeting, Professional Issues Roundtable.
  
• Teplitzky, S., Powell, S., & Sackmann, A. (2019, December 13). Open Science and Data Management: Introducing Graduate Students to Research Workflows in a Local Context. Poster presented at AGU 2019 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2019, November 1). Introducing Graduate Students to Open Research Workflows. Lightning talk presented at Berkeley-Stanford Science Librarians’ Meeting, Berkeley, CA.
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2019, October 17). Hanging out your open science shingle: launching an open science program by supporting a new graduate cohort. Presented at Force11 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland. https://zenodo.org/record/3510306
  
• Teplitzky, S., Quigley, B., & Sackmann, A. (2019, April). Supporting Research Workflows with Online Collaborative LaTeX Writing Tools. Presented at ACRL 2019, Cleveland, OH. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81t2w1gd
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2019, February 14). Launching Research Workflows at the UC Berkeley Physics Library. Lightning Talk presented at AAAS Librarians’ Meeting, Washington, DC.
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha and Sackmann, Anna. (2018, March 30). Convergence of Data and Scholarship: Open Access and Reproducibility. Presented at Online Northwest, Portland, OR. http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/24324
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. (2017, October). Open Educational Resources in the Earth Sciences: Examples from the UC Berkeley Library’s Affordable Course Content Pilot Program. Presented at GSA/GSIS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-297886
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha and Warren, Mea. (2017, October). Trends in Open Educational Resources in the Earth Sciences: Emerging Roles for the Academic Library. Poster presented at GSA/GSIS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-297881 Poster: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vv862ms
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha and Phillips, Margaret. (2017, April). Qualitative analysis of the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) open access fund at UC Berkeley. Invited paper presented at ACS Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha and Powell, Susan. (2016, December). Pop-up exhibits as an outreach tool: Connecting academic and public audiences with library resources. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/126853 Poster: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bh1p8nn
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha and Powell, Susan. (2016, December). Taking the world for a spin: teaching spatial and data visualization with a digital globe. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/126842 Poster: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb6641c
  
• Teplitzky, Samantha. Lightning talk, UC Berkeley’s Digital Globe, GSA/GSIS, Denver, September 25, 2016
  
• Teplitzky, S. (2016, September). Open Data, [Open] Access: How data sharing encourages article sharing in the Earth Sciences. Paper presented at the GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper279102.html
  
• Teplitzky, S., & Phillips, M. (2015, October). Evaluating the impact of open access at Berkeley: a qualitative analysis of the BRII program. In LAUC-B Conference 2015. Open Access: Reclaiming Scholarship for the Academy. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c33n5fn
  
• Powell, S., & Teplitzky, S. (2015, July). Plotting a New Map-tastic Course: Building community and unearthing collections through pop-up exhibits. In American Library Association Annual Conference 2015 Poster Presentation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14t227zj
  
• Loo, J. L., Quigley, B. D., Ngo, L. T., Powell, S., & Teplitzky, S. (2015, July). Empowering the Frontline: A Dynamic Online Reference Manual and Training Session for Student Library Employee Reference Skills. In American Library Association Annual Conference 2015 Poster Presentation.
  

Workshops

• Organizer of “Shaping the future with Researcher-run journals,” a workshop on diamond open access convened by Seismica (2023, December 10)
• Invited participant in AGU’s Notebooks Now initiative, Computational Notebooks Stakeholder Group, Washington, DC (2022, November 3-4)
  • Co-Chair of “Content Consumer” Working Group, 2023
• Invited Facilitator for “Resources” section of NISO CRediT Persona Development Workshops (2022, September 29)
• Created & coordinated 11 instructors for FSCI (Force 11 Summer Institute) 2021 Summer Course, “Case studies in the Earth Sciences: Current approaches to publishing, data and computation” (Summer 2021)
• Geoscience Librarianship 101 - through Geoscience Information Society (GSIS)
  • Opportunities for outreach and engagement in Earth Sciences librarianship, Virtual (11/2/2022)
  • Introduction to Open and Reproducibile Practices in Earth Science (10/19/2021)
  • Scholarly Communications: Trends in the Earth Sciences; Opportunities for Librarians (2017, 2018)

Grants & Awards

• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) Presentation Grant (2023-2024): “Shaping the future with Seismica: Building a sustainable diamond open access researcher-run journal,” presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2023
  
• Teplitzky, S., Wilairat, S. and Deardorff, A. (2023). “Research Community Outreach with Open Science Team Agreements.” Grant awarded to develop Open Science Lessons for Librarians through Institute of Museum and Library Services and UCLA Library Data Science Center
  
• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) Mini Grant (2021-2022): partial funding of open access article processing charge for article, “Developing a collaborative diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) guide”
• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) Presentation Grant (2020-2021): Open access investment at the local level: Sharing diverse tactics to improve access and affordability, presented at ACRL 2021 (virtual).
  
• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) Presentation Grant (2019-2020): “Open Science and Data Management: Introducing Graduate Students to Research Workflows in a Local Context,” poster presented at AGU 2019 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
  
• Geoscience Information Society Best Paper Award 2018 for: Teplitzky, S. (2017). Open data, [open] access: linking data sharing and article sharing in the Earth Sciences. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 5(1). http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2150
  
• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) Presentation Grant (2018-19): “Scholarly Communications: Trends in the Earth Sciences and Opportunities for Librarians,” presentation at Geoscience Librarianship 101, Geoscience Information Society 2018 Fall Meeting, Indianapolis, IN
  
• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) presentation grant (2017-18): “Trends in Open Educational Resources in the Earth Sciences: Emerging Roles for the Academic Library,” presented at GSA/GSIS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2017
  
• Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) presentation grant (2016-17): “Taking the world for a spin: teaching spatial and data visualization with a digital globe,” presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2016
  
• Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Women’s Network Travel Award, September 2000
  

Professional Organizations & Service

• Steering Committee, Open Science Collaborative of Library and Information Professionals (OSCLIP), 2025 -
• US Representative to SCOAP3 Governing Council, 2024-2026
• EarthArXiV Advisory Council, 2023-present
• Editor, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications, 2022-present
• Founding Open Science Executive Editor of Seismica, Diamond Open Access Journal, 2021-present
• Geoscience Information Society (GSIS), 2005-8, 2014-present

Professional Development & Continuing Education

• NASA TOPS (Transform to Open Science) Badge, May 2024
  
• Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals course (Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement), February-March 2021
  
• Carpentries Instructor Certification, Fall 2020
  
• Data Science Pedagogy and Practice Workshop, UC Berkeley Division of Data Science, June 3-5, 2019
  
• Blockchain & Decentralization for the Information Industries, March-April 2019
  
• EdX: Foundations of Data Science: Computational Thinking with Python, Spring 2018
  

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Geology and Art History
Williams College - Williamstown, MA, USA (1998)

Master of Arts in Geography
University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA, USA (2002)

Master of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University - San Jose, CA, USA (2003)