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The Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS), MIT Libraries seeks undergraduate and graduate Research Assistants to contribute to “Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship”. Research assistants will contribute to web mining, social media mining, and data mining aimed to measure open and inclusive scholarship, Research assistants work directly with the Principal Investigator.

On May 30, 2022, CREOS released a new website for the IMLS-funded Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship project. This website provides information about the project, publications, works in progress, and pointers to presentations and other events.

On July 31, 2021, CREOS was awarded a grant from IMLS to conduct research and develop open, reliable, standardized indicators that go beyond measures of “overall impact” to advance the understanding of who is, and who is not, participating in open scholarship.

There is ongoing tension between the desire of scholars to share their work widely and openly, and the need to fund the infrastructure and labor of publishing. One place in which this tension is most evident is in the sale of scholarly monographs.