Advancing neuroscience education without borders: make your training resources FAIR with INCF!

The INCF TrainingSuite is a collection of three open access platforms that aims to facilitate self-guided study in different sub-specialisms of neuroscience, data science, and open science. These platforms, presented below, form a framework for integrating training materials and making them FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. INCF TrainingSpace (training.incf.org) is an online hub for making neuroscience educational materials across the sub-specialisms of neuroscience more accessible to the global community. It provides users with access to: multimedia educational content, study tracks, tutorials on tools and open science resources, and a Q&A forum. All courses and conference lectures in TrainingSpace include a general description, topics covered, links to prerequisite courses if applicable, and links to software described in or required for the course, as well as links to related content. Study Tracks, curated by the INCF Training and Education Committee, combine lectures and courses from multiple content providers and are arranged in a logical order for learning (from introductory to in-depth). All content in TrainingSpace is released under open access licenses, so content may be used freely by trainers to include in their training activities. Since March 2019, TrainingSpace has received over 62,000 unique visitors conducting 216,705 page views. Neurostars (neurostars.org) is a Question & Answer (Q&A) forum that serves the INCF network and the global neuroscience community as a platform for knowledge exchange between neuroscience researchers at all levels of expertise, software developers, and infrastructure providers. Neurostars has been adopted by several other large neuroscience initiatives such as the Neuromatch Academy, Neuro Hackademy, and the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS). Several community tools - among them Nipype, SPM, fMRIprep, Nilearn and Freesurfer - use Neurostars for providing user support. Since March 2019, Neurostars has received over 268,000 visitors conducting over 1.4 million pageviews. KnowledgeSpace (https://knowledge-space.org) is a community-based encyclopedia for neuroscience that links brain research concepts to the data, models, and literature that supports them, demonstrating how SBPs can facilitate linking brain research concepts with data, models and literature from around the world. It provides users with access to over 1.000.000 publicly available datasets as well as links to literature references and scientific abstracts. The framework combines the general descriptions of neuroscience concepts found in wikipedia with more detailed content found in NeuroLex and integrates them with the latest neuroscience citations found in PubMed and data found in some of the world’s leading neuroscience repositories. KnowledgeSpace is an open project led by INCF, HBP, and NIF and welcomes participation and contributions from members of the global research community.