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Researchers usually work in silos, without much awareness of or access to what's going on in other fields. The solitary nature of research often means that both within and across social science disciplines, the sharing of information or best practices relating to reproducible scientific methods as well as open education is difficult. This can lead to a problem of “reinventing the wheel” whilst also resulting in knowledge that is biased or misleading (e.g., believing some finding is unique to a certain field when it’s not). In the present project, we aim at collating an interdisciplinary database of open scholarship (OS) literature. This OS literature database can be easily used for educational purposes. Specifically, it serves as an open central hub for OS-related publications which can be used for individual needs. For instance, teachers can easily generate a reading list by querying the database and retrieving the relevant information. Moreover, we will also synthesise the literature to expedite the accumulation of evidence when it comes to OS. Through mapping the landscape of OS literature across disciplines, an up-to-date picture can be revealed, facilitating a transparent and timely understanding of OS literature in terms of commonalities, uniqueness, and directions for future efforts. In our unconference sessions, we aim at having hands-on activities that include the tagging and coding of OS articles as well as at collecting feedback on our method for the planned systematic review. We invite anyone interested in OS to participate, we especially look forward to interdisciplinary collaborations. As we aim to break the information barriers across disciplines, we welcome researchers, students, educators, and practitioners from different fields in the social sciences to become a part of our project. Our curated database and the corresponding literature review will serve multiple purposes. First, our curated database will serve as an easily accessible knowledge base for anyone interested in learning about OS, ranging from students to researchers and educators. Through crowd-sourced efforts, we will tag and code the literature with keywords, allowing for easy and customisable queries. Second, through the building of an interdisciplinary database, we also create opportunities for researchers from diverse backgrounds to meet with, learn from, and collaborate with each other. Third, our review paper will serve as a map of the landscape of OS literature across disciplines, which will inform stakeholders in the areas that require more attention and efforts to adopt OS practices. The review will also help to reveal where consensus regarding OS lies and thereby contribute to a deeper and more inclusive understanding of OS with regard to a variety of disciplines and research paradigms. Taken together, our initiative contributes to the cultivation of a culture of OS where everyone enjoys a sense of belonging through OS practices and brings researchers closer to a better future for science and education. All materials for this Unconference session can be accessed via this padlet: https://padlet.com/veronicalm625/forrt-landscape-project-hackathon-rb668cdtdb772nth
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