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Description: OAHack is a hackathon and do-a-thon for projects in open access and open research, hosted by the MIT Libraries on the MIT campus on April 6-7. We welcome projects that increase access to scholarly publications, data, educational materials, computer code and more - by harnessing software, design, data analytics, business models, policy, academic models and other tools!
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Project: OA Collective Action
formerly "Combating Author Inertia in Publishing OA" project
Project: FOIA
Using FOIA to obtain papers published by state colleges
Project: LoreCast
Using AR and VR to enhance research and open access of data
Project: Metrics of scholarly impact
Develop metrics of scholarly impact, for use in tenure and promotion committees, that depend less on journal prestige.
Project: OA games
Create games about OA that appeal to authors
Project: Open Textbook Errors
Crowdsource errors in textbooks & scientific articles
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Idea: Research diary
A personal research diary that weaves together your code, your data, and your text into a coherent whole.
Idea: The impact of OA
Preparing a controlled experiment on scientific publication licensing terms and resulting citation counts
Idea: Searching source code repos
Searching source code repos for common code shared in student projects
Idea: Reference accessibility
A tool to assess the accessibility of a list of references.
Idea: OA journals
Create open access electronic journals focusing on reviews of fronteirs in specific disciplines
Idea: TagTeam
Use TagTeam, the open-source tagging platform running the Open Access Tagging Project http://bit.ly/tagteam-harvard
Idea: Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p
Idea: Differential journal pricing
Methods for encouraging differential pricing for libraries based in developing countries
Idea: Replicating studies with blockchain
Replicating studies with blockchain
Idea: Exploring public policy & OA funding
Exploring public policy mandates and costs of OA publications in grant funding
Idea: ArXiv organization
Better ArXiv organization for better access and promote pre-print as a way for open science
Idea: Journal peer review practices
Build a database of journal peer review practices in order to monitor transparency
Idea: OER
open access to educational resources
Idea: Experimentally proving OA impact
preparing a controlled experiment on scientific publication licensing terms and resulting citation counts
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