Radical Access: The SFU Scholarly Publishing blog
The state of open educational resources in Africa
An overview of institutional repositories in Africa
SFU Celebrates Open Access Week 2022
Using OpenStreetMap for your research: leveraging a massive global geographic database that emphasizes local knowledge
SFU's commitment to open education
Community engaged research initiatives: Going further than open
How Community Science opens a new way of knowledge creation: the BC Parks iNaturalist Project
Did you know that a hiker, birder, or beachcomber can contribute to scientific knowledge while they are exploring nature? Nature enthusiasts can upload a picture and description of plant, animal, insect, fungi or other organism through an app on their cell phone. This article introduces a trend called Community (or Citizen) Science, the website iNaturalist that uses Community Science to identify plant and animal species, and the role of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in creating easy to use visualizations.
Leveraging Web Mapping Technologies to Communicate Your Research: Introducing our new Web GIS Workshop Series
The Open Scholarship and Knowledge Mobilization movements encourage us to think hard about how digital media and the open web have revolutionarily disrupted the traditional way of publishing. The ways to disseminate and communicate research has never been more diverse and accessible, targeting a broad audience of specialists and non-specialists. Just think about the novel avenues in which researchers have dabbled to put their intellectual output: blogs, podcasts (or newly invented open peer-reviewed podcasts), and numerous web-based projects.
Recognizing contributions to research - how should you credit?
This blog looks at changes to the ways researchers or team members are credited in publications. The CRediT system is highlighted as one way to give credit responsibly and recognize different forms of research contribution.