Developing a New Resource: The Open Academic: A Career Guide for Psychology
Questions abound about how to navigate academic psychology (e.g., publishing and reviewing, teaching and mentoring, securing a job). Although there are extensive resources available, they are not organized in a single, searchable location. The few collections that are available are books, which a) are solo-authored or are long chapters written by senior figures in the field, b) are written almost exclusively by authors from the U.S. writing about the U.S. context, and c) are not freely accessible. The purpose of this hackathon is to develop a new resource, The Open Academic: A Career Guide for Psychology, which will consist of numerous, brief entries on a large number of topics. The development of the guide has already begun, and all infrastructure will be in place prior to the conference. The hackathon session will be focused on adding and editing as much content for the Guide as possible.