Like all research, the value of contributions in citizen science are greatest when communicated effectively. Further, citizen science in particular stands to benefit from the opportunities and affordances of openness, both in terms of open access (broadcast) and open collaboration (feedback). Digital and network technologies, especially the web, enable many substantive opportunities to practice and communicate citizen science.
Blogging
General Science
http://scienceblogs.com/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/
http://arstechnica.com/author/john-timmer/
http://blogs.plos.org/citizensci/
Life Sciences
http://www.xconomy.com/life-sciences/
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/mo-costandi
http://www.bamh1.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/author/maryn/
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/medicine/
http://www.upwell.us/blog
http://www.thestreet.com/topic/45381/adam-feuersteins-biotech-blog.html
http://www.genengnews.com/blog-biotech
http://lifescivc.com/
http://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/
http://invivoblog.blogspot.com/
Social Sciences
http://citizensocialscience.wordpress.com/
Physical Sciences
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/
Technology
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/technology/
http://io9.com/
DIY Bio
Articles
Projects
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1664
Zooniverse http://www.zooniverse.org
OpenScientist
http://www.openscientist.org/2013/09/announcing-new-citizen-science.html
Citizen Social Science
Wiki list of projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects
Journals
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
- http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/10/6
- BioOne
- http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/B580303
- International Journal of Zoology
- http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijz/2012/349630/
- https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
- http://www.openjournalproject.org/
- http://jmlr.org/
- http://arxiv.org/
- https://www.plos.org/
- http://elifesciences.org/
Organizations promoting open science
http://mozillascience.org/
http://software-carpentry.org/
http://science.okfn.org/
Crowdfunding
- eg. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wemu-a-revolution-in-epilepsy-monitoring-and-diagnosis - epilepsy monitoring clothing on indiegogo
- kickstarter/indiegogo doesn't provide any verification that the thing can actually be developed, scientific evaluation
- better:
- http://www.sciencestarter.de/home.html
- https://experiment.com/
- people based, not project based: https://www.gittip.com/
Document Writing
Collaborative Reading/Annotation
Connecting with engaged people/resources for getting started
Post to a list on http://lists.okfn.org, find help from some engaged people.
https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science (see also country-specific variations)
If local, recruit from the community.
Hacker spaces (for software): http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/
Organize/Promote through Science Hack Day.
http://scienceonline.com #scio14 #scicomm