New Resource From LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries): “Open Science Meets Citizen Science – A Guide”

From LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries):

LIBER is pleased to announce the launch of the citizen science guide for research libraries Open Science Meets Citizen Science edited by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras of The Alan Turing Institute. This is the third section of the guide series Citizen Science for Research Libraries. The guide series is brought to you by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. 

This guide is intended as a practical support resource for research libraries looking to support their research communities in developing their citizen science project. In the guide, you will find contributions from leading practitioners and reports on the lessons learned from well established projects. The guide is peer reviewed and published as open access and as multi-format, with additional interoperable formats for reuse. 

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How to make use of what is available from open science is covered in the article ‘Implementing Open Science Practices into a Citizen Science Project’. The use of data is an area that is well-supported by open science in terms of data analysis tool like R and Jupyter Notebooks that have democratized data science and allow easy use and analysis by the interested public. Additionally, the collecting, handling, and open publishing of data is extensively supported by literature for Research Data Management plans that feature citizen science. 

If ‘inclusion and empowerment’ are a priority for researchers leading citizen science projects then the article ‘Ethical Practices for Citizen Science’ has as a roadmap for thinking through the issue involved aimed at creating genuine engagement and a community-led use-case with the project ‘AutSPACEs‘. Creating safe spaces for participants is now a familiar practice with the use of Codes of Conduct, but here again the detail counts — with a recommendation from the article being to co-write a Codes of Conduct with members of the group involved in a citizen science project. Codes of Conduct are a good point in case as they have been championed by the open science movement and reflect the more recent shift in open science to questions of values — inclusion issue of gender, race, and knowledge equity — in addition to the earlier work on technical infrastructures, and being open. 

Read the Complete Introduction (about 900 words)

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