Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public

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.

Jitka is a biologist, has worked as a scientist in public and occupational health, and joined the world of research support in 2017. Jitka is now part of the RDM team at the Technical University of Denmark developing teaching and support services and is a representative in the Danish national RDM network. Her interest in citizen science arose being part of a project investigating the RDM challenges of citizen science projects, and how research libraries may support these challenges.Jitka has a personal interest in sustainability and sees a great potential of FAIR data and Open Science to save resources and bring sustainable change to the scientific world.https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-5888-1221

Originally the managing director of a publishing house, Thomas Kaarsted joined the University Library of Southern Denmark in 2008 and was appointed Deputy Library Director in 2013. He is on LIBER's Conference Programme Committee and is active in the Citizen Science Working Group.Thomas has since worked on a number of strategic community-/society-based projects on a national and international level and - together with Anne Kathrine Overgaard, also a member of the Citizen Science Working Group - co-founded the Citizen Science Network at the university.The network advocates on Citizen Science, aims at building strong ties between the library and the Faculties while also adopting the role as project managers on a number of Citizen Science projects in close collaboration with researchers. He is also the manager of a national Danish project that investigates the possible roles of research libraries within the field.I see Citizen Science as the outcome of Open Science, as professor Eva Mendez once put it. Research libraries as knowledge brokers are the ideal place to support, facilitate and potentially grow the field of Citizen Science. A number of core competences within libraries can aid this endeavour and others will most likely emerge as the role of libraries are constantly changing. Furthermore, after working with Faculties on Citizen Science since 2016 it is my firm belief that all parties could benefit making this a strategic platform for research libraries to not only do support services but also facilitate and potentially integrate themselves into research. https: //orcid.org/0000-0001-6796-5753

Simon Worthington is a researcher in future publishing, including - free and open source software, economic models, and the politics of Open Science. Author of 'The Book Liberation Manifesto' outlining plans for the automation of publishing infrastructures to contribute to making research available to all. He is the Editor of 'Generation Research' an editorial platform for Open Science in Europe for the Leibniz Association Research Alliance Open Science and is based in R&D at the Open Science Lab, TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology. In 1994 he co-founded and published Mute magazine and continues as a member of the editorial collective and as publisher. He originally studied Fine Art at the Slade School, UCL (UK) and CalArts, Los Angeles (USA). https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-8579-9717