Library Infrastructures & Citizen Science

Library Infrastructures & Citizen Science

Citizen Science for Research Libraries — A Guide

Section Editor Kirsty Wallis. Version 1.0

About the Book

Library Infrastructures and Citizen Science

Section Editor Kirsty Wallis

v1.0, 2023

Series: Citizen Science for Research Libraries — A Guide

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington. Correspondence [email protected]

. Editors: Alisa Martek and Dragana Janković. Reviewers: Dr Raphaëlle Bats, Sara Decoster, Mitja V. Iskrić, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Dominic Tate. Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis.

DOI: 10.25815/tz0x‑m353

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Foreword

Simon Worthington & Thomas Kaarsted, Co-Editors-in-Chief.

Welcome to Library Infrastructures and Citizen Science the second section of the guide series Citizen Science for Research Libraries. The aim of the publication is to inspire researchers and the library community to take a second look at the infrastructures around them and how they can be creatively applied to citizen science projects. Open science has already expanded the array of tools and practices used in research infrastructure. The challenge is how to take these one step further for citizen science, in areas such as — expanding acknowledgement of contributor roles, in collecting data, or providing pathways for the use of open access by the public.

The section editor of Research Infrastructures and Citizen Science, Kirsty Wallis of UCL Library, has brought together voices from across the research infrastructure community to show off existing facilities who are looking to support citizen science, combined with a range of case studies that have implemented citizen science research projects.

The guide series is brought to you by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and is part of the groups work to help share knowledge and facilitate academic libraries in their support of scholars managing citizen science research projects. As the maintainer of research infrastructures, like — repositories, persistent identifiers, collections,