On October 24, tech news media company Technical.ly highlighted the biomedical hackathon hosted by the University Libraries and cloud computing and bioinformatics company DNAnexus. The piece explores the collaborative nature of the event, which focused on creating open-source pipelines, and the way the Pittsburgh community came together to facilitate learning and networking.
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Carnegie Mellon University’s institutional repository, Kilthub, was launched in July 2018. It replaced and improved upon the previous research repository, Research Showcase@CMU, which had been active for ten years. All content from Research Showcase was migrated into the KiltHub system, preserving metadata and usage statistics.
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Providing Open Access to research and scholarship has become a worldwide movement serving the mission of higher education, and it is strategic for CMU. Open Access disseminates works authored by the Carnegie Mellon community as broadly as possible, encouraging use, increasing citations, and amplifying impact, and enables the CMU community to access works authored around the world.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a grant of $241,147 to a team from CMU Libraries to support the implementation of a training program and curriculum to prepare library practitioners to meet the evolving open science needs and expectations of the research communities they support.
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The University Libraries has been a longtime proponent of initiatives that support collaborative, transparent, openly accessible, and reproducible research across all disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure G. Sayeed Choudhury has received a grant of $249,896 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch community building efforts to support those who are enabling open source in academia and research institutions, including the growing number of university open source programs offices (OSPOs).
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The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries has been a leader among universities in developing initiatives that support collaborative, transparent, openly accessible, and reproducible research across all disciplines at CMU.
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Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure Sayeed Choudhury and Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries Keith Webster published an op-ed in The Hill on July 20.
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Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean for digital infrastructure at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, will serve as senior advisor on open source for the Omidyar Network.
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PALCI (Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation) and ACS Publications are excited to announce the signing of a new open access agreement that provides participating members with full financial support for open access publication in all ACS journals, as well as complete access to ACS Publications’ journal content through the end of 2025.
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