### Welcome to the home page for the [SAA](http://saa.org) Open Science Interest Group Here you can find documents and resources relating to the OSIG's activities. We have a low-volume email list you can join here: https://groups.google.com/g/saa-osig There is also an SAA e-community page here: [http://saa.org/e-communities](http://saa.org/e-communities). To post your pre-print at the Socarxiv, [start here](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/submit). #### News and Events - SAA2021 OSIG Sponsored Forum: [Teaching Integrity in Empirical Archaeology.](https://osf.io/jfdb6/) See [page 124](https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-annualmeeting/final-program/2021_saa-final-program.pdf) of the program. - SAA2021 OSIG Sponsored Workshop: [Teaching Integrity in Empirical Archaeology.](https://osf.io/jfdb6/) See [page 30](https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-annualmeeting/final-program/2021_saa-final-program.pdf) of the program. - SAA2019 OSIG Sponsored Workshop: [Transparent and Open Archaeological Science Using R](https://benmarwick.github.io/2019-04-10-saa/). See [page 10](https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-annualmeeting/annualmeeting/preliminary-program/prelim-program-2019-final.pdf?sfvrsn=6432ba4b_2) of the program - SAA2019 OSIG sponsored session "Practical Approaches to Identifying Evolutionary Processes in the Archaeological Record", See [page 26](https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-annualmeeting/annualmeeting/preliminary-program/prelim-program-2019-final.pdf?sfvrsn=6432ba4b_2) of the program. Several completely new R packages were debuted in this session: [cTransmission](https://github.com/ercrema/cTransmission) by Enrico Crema, Anne Kandler and Clémentine Straub, [signatselect](https://github.com/benmarwick/signatselect) by Ben Marwick and Liying Wang, and one from Clemens Schmid: [popgenerator](https://github.com/nevrome/popgenerator) - SAA2018 OSIG Sponsored workshop: [Data Carpentry for archaeologists](https://benmarwick.github.io/2018-04-13-saa/) at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History - SAA2017 OSIG Sponsored Workshop: [Learning to use R for archaeological science](https://osf.io/2dfhz/wiki/SAA%202017%20Workshop:%20Using%20R%20for%20Archaeological%20Data%20Analysis%2C%20Mapping%2C%20and%20Visualization/). Also see See page 9 of the [program](http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/PrelimProgram2017.pdf#page=9) - SAA2017 OSIG Sponsored Forum on using R for archaeological science: Current applications. See the [online edited volume](https://benmarwick.github.io/How-To-Do-Archaeological-Science-Using-R/) and page 21 of the [program](http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/PrelimProgram2017.pdf#page=21) #### Documents and Publications - Published in 2020: "How to Use Replication Assignments for Teaching Integrity in Empirical Archaeology", by Ben Marwick, Liying Wang, Ryan Robinson, and Hope Loiselle, published in _[Advances in Archaeological Practice](https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2019.38)_, [preprint](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tsxbv/) - The OSIG initiative on [organising and running low-cost or free online, distributed scholarly meetings](http://bit.ly/vid-conf) - Study of the use of the R programming language in archaeological science by Sophie Schmidt and Ben Marwick, [Tool-Driven Revolutions in Archaeological Science](http://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.29) published in the _Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology_, [preprint](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4nkxv/) - [Project documentation](https://github.com/saa-osig/badges-for-open-practices) to award [COS badges](https://cos.io/our-services/open-science-badges/) for open science practices to SAA meeting presentations - [Motion to direct the SAA to require authors of research publications in SAA journals to share data openly on trustworthy public repositories ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g2OV2lGxg9EeADVpYURSSGKu8qpu7Agp13cqkNnADJs/edit) - a draft for consideration by the [SAA Publications Committee](https://www.saa.org/quick-nav/about-saa/committees-and-task-forces) - Study of the archaeological ethics of open research practices by Marwick and Wang [How to align disciplinary ideals with actual practices: Transparency and openness in archaeological science](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/s8z6u/), pre-print under review for the edited volume _Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice_ - Study of data sharing and citation in archaeology by Marwick & Pilaar Birch, in _Advances in Archaeological Practice_: [preprint](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/py4hz/) and [published paper](https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2018.3) - Online edited volume [_How To Do Archaeological Science Using R_](https://benmarwick.github.io/How-To-Do-Archaeological-Science-Using-R/) with eight chapters of case studies, fully reproducible with code included. - Group manifesto for the SAA Archaeological Record: "Open Science in Archaeology", [preprint](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/72n8g/) and published [paper](http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=440506#{%22issue_id%22:440506,%22page%22:10}) in [_The SAA Archaeological Record_](http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=440506#{%22issue_id%22:440506,%22page%22:10}) - [Proposal and petition for the establishment of the OSIG](https://osf.io/26tyj/) - [FAQ about sharing data and code](https://osf.io/2dfhz/wiki/FAQ%20about%20sharing%20data%20and%20code) #### Logo - We have a simple heaxgonal logo that shows icons for text, code, data, version control and links, contained in a document. This reflects our ideal form of scholarly communication, where a journal article or book chapter contains links to data and version controlled code deposited in a trustworthy repository. ![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1262179/23913198/692a6616-089f-11e7-89d4-0c357d92a16c.png