Overall Research Project Description Open science is the movement towards making all aspects of scientific research as open and accessible as possible and is a growing movement in the research community. NASA and other government agencies have even declared 2023 the “Year of Open Science" (https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/year-of-open-science/). Libraries are an integral part of supporting and facilitating advancement in open research practices and Florida State University Libraries are in the process of developing an open science program to work towards this.

As a part of the program development process, this project will examine and catalog public facing websites of FSU’s peer institutions to see what other libraries are advancing open science, with particular attention to how these libraries are supporting their researchers and students who incorporate open science practices into their workflows. The research assistant would inventory library websites and assist with research documentation on the Open Science Framework (osf.io). This project is an opportunity to learn about the research process, data collection, and information management skills that will be useful no matter what field you go into as well as gain experience in an emerging, but important, global research trend.