Citizen Science for Research Libraries – A GuideThe LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is pleased to announce the release of the first section of the guide (Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public) covering skilling, which is released as a peer-reviewed open access publication. Read the publication online here.
Section 1: Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public
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An open access and peer-reviewed book
Section Editor Jitka Stilund Hansen
Part of the four part book series: Citizen Science for Research Libraries — A Guide
Published by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group
© 2021 the authors. Licensed Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), unless otherwise stated.
Read online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25815/hf0m-2a57
ISBN Print: 978-87-94233-59-0
ISBN eBook: 978-87-94233-60-6
A practical guide designed to assist those organising and participating in a citizen science project to get the most out of the experience. The guide will enable you to have the skills to ensure a project is well set up from the start, is able to communicate to its stakeholders and citizens, manage its data and outputs, and overall ensure research benefits. The guide has been compiled by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and pulls on the generous contributions of the open science community.
Subsection: Project Planning and Communications | Project Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide; Stakeholder Matrix. By Line Laursen and Thomas Kaarsted | Communication; Communication Plan (Citizens); Project Highlight: Find a Lake. By Lotte Thing Rasmussen | Subsection: Management of Citizen Science Data | Research Data Management: Quick Start Guide (eLearning course) | Use of Data Policies in Citizen Science Projects: A Step-by-step Guide. By Jitka Stilund Hansen | Citizen Science Data and Standards; Project Highlight: Defining New Data Standards with Citizen Science. By Sven Schade and Chrisa Tsinaraki | Acknowledgment of Citizen Scientists on Research Outputs; Project Highlight: Lizard Conservation with the Balanggarra Rangers in Australia. By Georgia Ward-Fear | Planning and Securing Resources — The Data Management Plan. By Iryna Kuchma | Project Highlight: FAIR Data in a Citizen Science Project | Project Highlight: The INOS Project | Subsection: Scientific Literacy | Increasing Scientific Literacy with Citizen Science. By Berit Elisabeth Alving.
Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington Reviewers: Sara Decoster & Stefan Wiederkehr.
Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu
General Information About the Publication
The guide is designed to be a practical and compact gateway publication for the purpose of assisting research libraries to start setting up a Citizen Science programme.
Citizen Science for research libraries is a way to build new and more engaged audiences as a way to establish new links between science and society.
The guide will address the unique context of research libraries – as becoming the ‘go to place’ for the new and exciting Open Science data world that is opening up to the wider public.
As a starting point, the guide will use four recommendations for Citizen Science from the LIBER Open Science Roadmap: infrastructures; good scientific practice; guidelines, and; skilling.
The content will be organised around the following four main sections and release in sequential modules for reuse:
Co-editors-in-chief:
Simon Worthington simon.worthington@tib.eu ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8579-9717 | and
Thomas Kaarsted thk@bib.sdu.dk. ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6796-5753
Paul Ayris (Chair) ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6273-411X;
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9925-9623;
Jitka Stilund Hansen ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5888-1221, and;
Kirsty Wallis ORCID iD:0000-0002-9570-6174 .
The book is intended as a short guide and will be approximately one hundred pages in length. The publication will be produced as multi-format and multi-channel (print-on-demand, PDF, Webbook, website, eBook, and as a Jupyter Book – and will be technically designed for reuse, for example in – community translations or in MOOCs.
Book sections will be released incrementally as they are ready. Ideally, the book will become a community-owned publication with regular updates.
We would like to acknowledge The Library & Community Guide to Citizen Science published by SciStarter as an inspiration for the idea for our publication. Additionally, The Turing Way from the Alan Turing Institute is worth mentioning as a community model of open science publishing that we look to emulate.
The publication will be produced as an Open Access publication and use Open Science practices – where appropriate – to ensure the research is open and as reusable as possible, including: open data, open standards, PIDs, open peer review, open source software, and open methods, etc.
© 2021 the authors. All content licensed Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), unless otherwise stated. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Publication source: https://github.com/CitSci-WG/guide
Ayris, Paul, Bernal, Isabel, Cavalli, Valentino, Dorch, Bertil, Frey, Jeannette, Hallik, Martin, Hormia-Poutanen, Kristiina, et al. “LIBER Open Science Roadmap”. Zenodo, July 2, 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1303002. Page 29.
Cavalier, Darlene, Caroline Nickerson, Robin Salthouse, and Dan Stanton, eds. The Library & Community Guide to Citizen Science. SciStarter, 2020 (Revised 2021). http://media.scistarter.org/curated/The+Library+and+Community+Guide+to+Citizen+Science.pdf.
Arnold, Becky, Louise Bowler, Sarah Gibson, Patricia Herterich, Rosie Higman, Anna Krystalli, Alexander Morley, Martin O’Reilly, Kirstie Whitaker, and The Turing Way Community. The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3233986.