The American Library Association (ALA) and Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)have published the latest in their cookbook series, The Open Science Cookbook. It includes a chapter (or “recipe”) co-authored and led by Phil Reed (eScience Lab), titled “Spicy Data Skills Open Science Program With Library Carpentry” (pages 41-47).

The Open Science Cookbook provides a wide variety of lesson plans and learning activities for supporting collaborative, transparent, openly accessible, and reproducible research. In five sections, it has something for beginners to more advanced practitioners and for different audience sizes.

The Open Science Cookbook

The recipe describes how to adapt openly licensed materials from the Library Carpentry curriculum to develop a data skills program that works for your individual institution. It is a collaboration between The University of Manchester, University of Leeds and Bradley University (USA).

This book is also available as an open access edition (CC BY licensed).