Welcome!
The Open Scholar Café is a monthly virtual forum held each Spring semester for members of the ISU community to meet and discuss open research and scholarship with their peers. Each meeting will feature a new topic to be discussed or presented.
The Open Scholar Cafe runs during each spring semester. Please stay tuned for our next series!
Don't miss an event! Sign up to get invitations to the next Café and to meet your "open" peers at Iowa State. We will occasionally also send information about related events but we promise not to spam you.
Past café topics and recordings.
Date | Topic | Presenter(s) | Materials |
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19 April 2023 | Publishing Assignments as OER | Abbey Elder | |
22 March 2023 | Digital Scholarship and Initiatives Show-and-Tell | Laura Sullivan, Erin Ridnour, Michael Cummings | No materials available |
15 February 2023 | Impact of the OSTP Memo: An Analysis of U.S. Federally Funded Publications, 2017–2021 | Eric Schares | |
21 April 2022 | Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society: Open Textbook & Quality Matters Certification | Kelly L. Reddy-Best | Open Scholar Café: Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society |
23 March 2022 | Care, Control, & the Politics of Access: Ethnographic Research & Open Data | Sebastian Braun Marcel LaFlamme | Open Scholar Café: Care, Control, & the Politics of Access: Ethnographic Research & Open Data |
17 February 2022 | ISU’s Data Set Disclosure Process | Megan O’Donnell Sarah Kaatz, Brooke Langlitz Craig Forney Beth Pieper | Open Scholar Café: ISU's Data Set Disclosure Process |
19 January 2022 | Show and Tell: The Iowa State University Digital Repository | Hope Craft | Open Scholar Café: Show and Tell: The The Iowa State University Digital Repository |
17 November 2021 | Data and Copyright: It’s Complicated | Megan O’Donnell | Open Scholar Café: Data and Copyright: It's Complicated |
28 October 2021 | Preprints at Iowa State University | Iddo Friedberg Eric Schares | Open Scholar Café: Preprints |
15 September 2021 | Reimagining Research Assessment | Anna Hatch | Open Scholar Café: Reimagining Research Assessment with Anna Hatch |
21 July 2021 | Practical Paths to Open: Partnering with the Library to Make Your Research Open | Matthew Goddard, Abbey Elder, Hope Craft | |
17 June 2021 | Copyright for Researchers | Will Cross | No materials available |
19 May 2021 | The Digital Press: Open Access Publishing through ISU | Harrison W. Inefuku | Slides (PDF): |
15 April 2021 | Federal Data Management (+ Sharing) Plans | Megan O’Donnell | |
17 March 2021 | Open Educational Resources: Projects and Support at Iowa State | Abbey Elder | Meeting transcript (DOC): |
18 February 2021 | Prioritizing and Supporting Open Access through Publisher Agreements | Curtis Brundy | Open Scholar Café: Prioritizing and Supporting Open Access through Publisher Agreements |
The Open Scholar Café is a welcoming, supportive, and comfortable space where harassment is not tolerated in any form.
Harassment includes offensive comments related to race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, country of origin, age, disability, physical appearance, body size, religion, veteran status or other protected class status; discriminatory or offensive images; intimidation; stalking; harassing or unwanted recording; sustained disruption of talks; and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants violating the anti-harassment policy will be warned or booted from current and future meetings by the coordinators.
Participants may discuss sensitive, discriminatory, offensive, or triggering topics when they are relevant to the subject of the meetings itself (e.g., a meeting focusing on the silencing of trans* history in institutional repositories, or about microaggressions experienced by people of color in academia), but sensitive content and discussion topics should be made clear to participants prior to the start of the meeting.
Open Scholar Cafés are a place to share information, not only with other participants but also with those who may not be able to attend. Meetings are, by default, considered open and can be written about on social media and talked about outside of the meeting. If you do not want your words to be recorded or for either video or words to be attributed to you, please let participants and the coordinators know at the beginning of the meeting. As a courtesy, always ask prior to creating sound or video recordings of other participants. Please be thoughtful and respectful with your notes, recording, and sharing.
Each monthly meeting may adopt different rules for sharing (e.g., fully recorded recordings posted, de-identified notes with attribution and made with permission) as long as the coordinator informs all participants who join the session about the expectations for sharing before the meeting begins.
The Open Scholar Cafe's icon was inspired by and uses elements of "Cafe" by Hadi on the Noun Project.