Summary
The CMU-Q Library hosted a series of workshops led by CMU Pittsburgh STEM Librarian Chasz Griego to celebrate International Open Access Week. The sessions provided practical strategies for open science, data management, and research reproducibility to strengthen undergraduate and faculty scholarship.
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar marked International Open Access Week with a series of workshops hosted by the CMU-Q Library. Chasz Griego, STEM Librarian at CMU Libraries in Pittsburgh, delivered three sessions to faculty and staff, students, and the Education City community. CMU-Q is a Qatar Foundation partner university.
International Open Access Week is a global event that encourages researchers and institutions to make scholarship freely available to everyone. This year’s theme, “The Cost of Knowledge,” highlights the barriers that keep research out of reach and the shared responsibility to remove them.
“I came here to teach about how to promote open research practices to students at CMU-Q, but I also learned so much about how to teach these practices from the community,” said Griego.
The sessions focused on a practical question: how can researchers make their work easier to organize, share, and build on? Griego introduced the principles of open science, discussed the challenges researchers face in sharing their work, and provided strategies to apply open practices in research.
“The content is extremely timely and essential for students to help them understand the critical role of data management and research reproducibility in science,” said Adviti Naik, assistant professor of biological sciences at CMU-Q, who does her own research and serves as a faculty advisor for undergraduate projects.
The workshops are part of the CMU-Q Library’s ongoing efforts to support undergraduate research at CMU-Q.
