 Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started. Once again, I'm Blaine Butler with the Center for Open Science. I'm the product owner associated with our OSF collections. This is Drew Jitomer and Nikki Tresi from URE Methods, who I'll be introducing the presentation. And then they'll be taking over and explaining what URE Methods collection is about. And then showing an example of one of the add-on tools that they developed to better serve their needs. Okay, so this presentation is introducing the use of research evidence methods or URE Methods collection on the OSF, sharing methods to enhance open science practices. As I mentioned, I'm Blaine Butler, product owner at Center for Open Science. And this is Drew Jitomer, as well as Nikki Tresi, both from URE Methods. So OSF collections is a repository of submitted OSF projects, which is built for sharing, searching, aggregating and promoting a body of research works. Collections enable research communities to set norms and advance open research practices collectively. OSF collections enables research communities and organization visibly encouraged and promote open science practices. It also allows for moderation and curation of specific OSF projects and aggregation of the resources related to specific research objective themes and topics for that organization or community. Included within an OSF collection is a branded landing page, submission control, moderation support, a whole moderation dashboard and workflow, along with aggregated research outputs from across the OSF and then custom metadata to enhance visibility. Now here is Drew to discuss how they're using the URE Methods collection to enhance their work. Well, thank you, Blaine. Hello everyone and thank you all for joining us. I'm Drew Jitomer from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. And today we're here to introduce the URE Methods collection on the open science framework. This is a repository of methods and measures used to study the use of research evidence or URE. URE research provides insight into whether, when, how and why policymakers and practitioners obtain make meaning of and use research evidence, how use impacts policy and practice and how the use of research evidence can be improved. Today, my colleague Nicky Dresde and I want to introduce you to the repository. We will give you a bit of background on its origins, provide an overview of what a project looks like in the collection and then show you how you can easily post your own work in the collection. Let's start with a little background information about the repository. Back in 2019, Kevin Kraus and I set out to review the research methods used to examine URE and we found a few things of interest. For one, studies of URE cut across multiple fields, including education, social welfare, public health and the legislative and justice systems. The questions, frameworks and methods used to study URE often had much in common, even though they frequently had different disciplinary orientations and were often published in different journals and other dissemination outlets. So we thought that the URE community could benefit from a resource that would encourage synergy among this diverse research base and contribute to the building of stronger methods. We also knew that in order for this resource to be effective and usable by the community at large, it needed to exist as an open research commons where it can be freely accessed, engaged with and contributed to. It also needed to be a place where authors could maintain ownership of the materials and license it for the use in ways that suited their needs. We also thought that people would benefit from sharing and having access to details of methods that are typically unavailable through standard publications. So say you publish a paper for a study that relied on an interview method. A reader would usually be able to find some limited information about the interview, including in some cases the questions that were asked. But other elements such as the full interview protocol, the coding structures used to interpret responses or any detail about the work process of creating the protocol, those typically wouldn't be readily available. Thus, in order to create synergy about URE research methods among the URE community and to provide greater access to method details, we built the URE repository within the Open Science Framework to support researchers at different stages of their research development, as well as to provide a resource for students, funders, publishers and others. Now we work with individual researchers and research teams to house their methods as projects inside an OSF collection, organized by method type and subject area. In order to encourage the curation of each project with as many methodological details as possible and create a consistency of format across all projects, we designed templates customized to different types of methods for our contributors to use and apply to their projects. So as an example, I'd like to show you one of the projects we have in our repositories collection. This is a survey method used for the validation study of the research engagement survey tool, also known as the REST, designed by Melody Goodman from the New York University School of Global Public Health, Vetta Thompson from Washington University in St. Louis and their colleagues. This tool was created to assess community engagement levels in health research. We worked with Dr. Goodman to include this method and its corresponding survey instrument in the repository and use the features of OSF collections to make it visible and searchable. Now some of the features include adding contributors, creating an effective brief description, licensing for the protocol, a DOI, relevant tags and other metadata and uploading files that contain instruments, coding structures and other protocol information. Now you'll notice that a detailed breakdown of the method is contained in multiple wikis, which are part of our template format. For this protocol, there is much greater information provided about the survey structure itself, access to the actual software code, code that's used to score constructed responses and details about the analytic procedures and findings. Now depending on our contributors' needs, this template can be customized or expanded to conclude other details or have some protocol information broken down into components or linked to other projects. We invite you to explore this and other protocols in the repository to get a sense of the kinds of things that authors include. Currently, we still work with our contributors and do much of the back end effort of developing protocols and creating projects for them in order to save them time. In order to sustain the repository's design and open it up to as large a group of contributors as possible, we have developed a more autonomous process where people can take our resources and add their own work. In order to facilitate this process, we have a concluded support on our companion website where users can find not only the templates but also written and video guides on how to use all the resources of our project and OSF. To support independent input of methods protocols, our co-PI Kevin Kraus created a simple plugin to provide a major enhancement for our users. So with that, I'll turn it over to Nikki who is going to present a demonstration of the plugin. All right, thanks Drew and hello everyone. I'm Nikki Dresdie, also from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education and I'm the project manager of the URI Methods Repository. As Drew mentioned, I'll be showing you the tool that our co-PI Kevin developed to make curating and populating projects for our collection even easier for our contributors. It's been designed to work with our pre-formatted templates so that all users need to do is populate one in a Google document or Microsoft Word document and with their protocol information and then let a few clicks do the rest. In addition, this plugin will also export the contents of an OSF project into a document file. So what I'll be doing today is giving you a click through the Microsoft Word import portion of the plugin as well as a look at the export function. So first what we do is we're going to log into OSF from the URI plugins index homepage. This link is also available on our site on URImethods.org. So first we'd log in and click allow. Here we go, we're logged in. So then we would select import from a Google document or import from an MS Word document. So for the purposes of today's demo, I'm going to be showing you the Microsoft Word one. All right. As this please wait till OSF projects load. All right. So in the section OSF project, you'd want to type in the name of the project you wish to import into. So I have a test one that I've made for today's demonstration. So I'm going to click that. Next, you want to upload your Microsoft Word document. Note that our plugin only currently works with modern Microsoft Word files. So that's the .docx one. And for this demonstration, I'm going to be using our interview protocol template with no other details in it. So I'm going to click that and I'm going to take a moment to just show you what this looks like. So we've created these templates to easily organize large amounts of information pertaining to specific methods. And of course, as Drew mentioned, these can be customized to meet their needs of the researchers. So you see that there are a number of fields for researchers to populate. To discuss the details of their method. Whoops, sorry. I'm going to scroll too fast. So everything you saw in the Goodman protocol there. So I'm going to take us back to the other screen. So I've already uploaded it. So then you'd select your document options based on the directive shown here. These options allow you to determine how the information in your document sorts itself into the OSF project upon importing it. So you can adjust these settings to create components within your project or separate wikis based on your project's individual format needs. So when the default setting you see selected here is used with our template, this results in creating a project with separate wikis for each major section. So as you saw with the Goodman protocol shown earlier. So then we review our options and we're going to hit import. We're going to get the loading screen. Wait for that to finish. Sometimes it may take a few minutes. There we go. And then done. So we're going to click here to leave the importer and go to the OSF webinar demo interview protocol. So the end result should be something like this. So an OSF project that looks, that's formatted to your specifications with just a few clicks. So from here you can complete your project by uploading files into the OSF file storage, adding tags, linking projects, entering metadata and licensing information and so on. So let's go back really quickly. Oh, and I just wanted to take a look at the wiki here just that you see what I'm talking about. So it looks very similar to the Goodman example. So I'd like to take us back really quickly and take a look at the export function. I'm going to just go back. There we go. So this time we're going to hit export to a file. Again, you want to make sure you're logged in and then you select the export. Click your project just like before and then select your options. So for this demonstration, I'm going to export it into a Microsoft Word document. Review your other options. Again, setting it to however you want it formatted when it comes out. I'm going to leave these on the default setting. So what it should turn into is a document that contains information organized much like similar to the Microsoft Word document I showed you earlier. Hit export. Wait for the loading to complete. All right, and you open your download and there you have it. And so you have a file that's ready to share, edit and print for your reference. So note that you should also be able to import this back into the project. So this is helpful to do if you have more structural changes to make to your project rather than just spot editing through the Wiki editor located on OSF. And that is about it. Let me just take us back to the presentation here. So we created this to streamline the process of creating and maintaining projects in an OSF in our OSF collection. And we hope you find it helpful and consider it when giving it a go when contributing. In addition to everything I just showed you, we have guidance on our companion site that's uremethods.org. And I'm also happy to answer any questions that you may have for us today. So with that, I will hand us back to Blaine. You're muted. Sorry. We had a question about the links and the recording being available. And yes, the slides will go out in email next week. They will also be available on an OSF project page, which will also be part of that link or included in that email. Are there any other questions or anyone need anything? And if there are any questions about the repository in general. Or the import tool or S for import expert tool. Right. Well, thank you for y'all's attention and participation. And like I said, all of the slides, the recording will all be going out early next week and linked to an OSF project page. And if you're interested in engaging at all and have questions, please feel free to reach out to me or Nikki and we have an email site specifically at uremethods.gmail.com. Yes, if you go to the next to last slide, I'll share a screen real quick. There are links to the uremethods collection directly and then their email is right here. Hold on, there was Q&A. Is there, can you search for a template for any specific type of research, political outcomes and assessments within the uremethods? Yes, I mean, we don't have an exhaustive group of methods, but we certainly have a decent selection. We have interviews and surveys and experimental approaches and case studies and several others that are up and that those templates can certainly be used to guide the research, to guide the input. And we anticipate developing other templates as we go along. All right, well, thank you all again for joining us. And if you have any follow-up questions, like I said, the emails are all included in the slides and that will be going out early next week. Thanks for coming, everyone.