Projects

Open Science Collaborative of Library and Information Professionals (OSCLIP) (2025-)

Summary
Founding steering committee member of OSCLIP new professional group for librarians involved in open science.

• Co-convened initial virtual and in-person meetings in 2025
• Launched cross-institutional working groups in 2026; Sponsor for Working Group on Open Science Case Study templates
• Convener for Community Calls (Fall 2026-)
• Host of second in-person OSCLIP meeting, UC Berkeley, January 2027

Bay Area Open Science Group (2022- )

Summary
The Bay Area Open Science Group is a virtual community composed of open science practitioners from UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Stanford with the goal of increasing awareness of and engagement with all things open science, including open access articles, open research data, open source software, and open educational resources.

Community Meetings

• Organize monthly events featuring local open science practitioners with UC Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford colleagues
• Manage website: https://bayareaopensciencegroup.github.io/

Open Science Team Agreement

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 Diamond Open Access Journal that launched 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 (2024-2026).
• Published editorial about the journal’s data and code policy.

Preserving Interactive Research Content (PIRC) - Force11 Working Group (2025-2026)

Summary
Co-led 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/ Paper: https://force11.github.io/pircwg/

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

Summary
This study examined 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