From: Norm Medeiros <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:24:28 -0400 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brooke Morris <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:56 PM **This message has been sent out to multiple lists. Please excuse any duplication.** The credibility of scientific findings is under attack. Discover tools and techniques for managing data, enabling research transparency, and promoting reproducible science in the ALCTS Preconference The Quest for Reproducible Science: Issues in Research Transparency and Integrity at ALA Annual in Orlando. The Quest for Reproducible Science: Issues in Research Transparency and Integrity Friday, June 24, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. | event code: ALC3 Speakers: Victoria Stodden, Richard Ball, Harrison Dekker, Garret Christensen, Eleni Castro, Elizabeth Quigley, and Jake Carlson Featuring scholars, librarians, and technologists, this innovative preconference will explore strategies for fostering and supporting transparent research practices, providing attendees with tools and techniques for organizing empirical research projects in such a way that they can be easily and exactly reproduced and immediately employed at their institutions. In addtion, participants will learn how to develop a research project on an open platform to manage data and other digital objects throughout the research lifecycle. If you're a digital initiative librarian, data curator, scholarly communications librarian, metadata librarian, repository manager, library liaison, or social science instructor who teaches or advises students on empirical research methods this is the preconference for you! Register today, and add this preconference to your conference registration or register for this preconference alone. http://2016.alaannual.org/register-now Brooke Morris Communications Specialist Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) American Library Association (ALA) 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 [log in to unmask] www.ala.org/alcts