Citizen Science: Library Resources

ArXiv is a major preprint servers for research papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. ArXiv (formally LANL) is maintained by Cornell University, with funding by Cornell and the National Science Foundation.

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers.

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by Ubiquity Press on behalf of the Citizen Science Association. The journal focuses on advancing the global field of citizen science by providing a venue for citizen science researchers and practitioners to share best practices in conceiving, developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining projects that facilitate public participation in scientific endeavors in any discipline.

PLOS ONE is an inclusive journal community working together to advance science for the benefit of society, now and in the future. The research we publish is multidisciplinary and, often, interdisciplinary. PLOS ONE accepts research in over two hundred subject areas across science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities

This guide introduces citizen science, public participation and collaboration in scientific research.

A sampling of citizen science projects online from Duquesne University.

Provides resources, strategies and information on conducting research, participating in, and creating citizen and community science projects.