This repo is intended to provide resources that promote openness and inclusion within biology labs. This repo is being curated in collaboration with the first cohort of the Open Life Sciences program!
- All users are expected to adhere to the following Code of Conduct.
- Interested in contributing to this repo? Review our Contributor Guidelines (in development).
I am working with my OLS mentor (@fpsom) to develop a resource for academics to build an open and inclusive community in their lab, whether it be for research or education. The goal would be to produce a website on GitHub that contains templates for enabling open science practices within a lab community (e.g., Code of Conduct, list of resources for commonly asked questions, open lab notebooks) in addition to clear contribution guidelines to encourage engagement from the broader community. Benefactors of this project would include junior faculty currently setting up new labs, senior faculty seeking to increase inclusivity of their lab, and early career researchers looking to prepare for teaching or leading their own labs in the future.
Here is a road map for the proposed activities!
- Create a GitHub repo
- Add initial resources to GitHub repo
- Draft templates of lab policy documents
- Create a GitHub website to release the repo
- Evaluate which resources are most helpful for users
- Recruit new contributors by emailing colleagues
- Recruit new contributors via Twitter and New PI Slack
- Prepare example case study to emphasize why it's important for contributors to get involved
- Conduct assessment of effectiveness in others
- Evaluate who the users are (based on stars on GitHub)
- Prepare Google Form for users to solicit their feedback
