Penn State University Libraries’ Research Data Stewardship Department is accepting registrations for the spring 2026 Open Scholarship Boot Camp. The two-day event offers a hands-on introduction to open science practices that can enhance research transparency, rigor and impact.
The boot camp will be hosted in the University Libraries’ Dewey Multipurpose Room within the Collaboration Commons, ground floor West Pattee Library, on Penn State’s University Park campus. The event will kick off at 10:15 a.m. on Monday, May 11, with keynote speaker Melissa Kline Struhl, executive director of MIT’s Children Helping Science at MIT’s Early Childhood Cognition Lab. Kline Struhl will speak on the "Children Helping Science" platform and her role in developing data standards for psychological and social sciences.
Along with hands-on workshops, additional topics of discussion listed in the schedule include a discussion on "Uses and Misuses of Open Research Data" and an expert panel on "Open Research Data and AI Ethics."
The University Libraries’ Boot Camp co-sponsors include Penn State’s Child Study Center, the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences, Social Sciences Research Institute, Department of Statistics and the Department of Psychology.
An online registration form for the Open Scholarship Boot Camp is available. Capacity is limited, so interested attendees are encouraged to submit their registration information soon. More information about the Boot Camp, its presenters and organizers is on the Open Scholarship Boot Camp website.
For more information or questions about the event, contact Alaina Pearce at azp271@psu.edu.