Citizen Science Where Science Meets Society

Citizen Science Where science meets society

1 Citizen Science Emergency & Patients Partnerships

• Elsevier Emergency • Wikipedia Library’s Access Resource Centres Donation Program • US National Library of Medicine • Onsite Access for UK (NLM) - Emergency Access Public Libraries Initiative (EAI) • Research4Life • patientAccess & patientINFORM • Bookshare • Load2Learn • Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) • Pint of Science Society • REISearch • Sense About Science • Media Access • The Science Media Centre • STM Digest • White City Maker Challenge Programme, Imperial • Atlas College London • AudioSlides • VALERIE Research Project, • Share Links Wageningen University - • Science & People the Netherlands

2 Citizen Science Emergency & Patients

US National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Elsevier Emergency Resource Centres Emergency Access Initiative (EAI)

In times of global crises, disease and natural EAI is a partnership between the NLM and disasters Elsevier develops timely, dedicated participating publishers to provide temporary resource centres which provide free access free access to full text articles to healthcare to medical research, online tools and expert professionals, librarians and members of the advice on emergency themes. The resource public affected by disasters. Elsevier has been a centres are developed for healthcare partner since EAI was first developed, providing professionals, librarians, researchers and free access to medical research during the members of the public. Latest Elsevier earthquake and subsequent cholera epidemic emergency resource centres, include: in Haiti (2010), flooding in Pakistan (2010), www.elsevier.com/ebola-resource-center both the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011), Typhoon Haiyan in the www.elsevier.com/zika-virus-resource-center Philippines (2013) and the Ebola crisis (2014). www.nlm.nih.gov

patientAccess & patientINFORM

Two US-based programmes bringing together publishers of leading medical journals and trusted health organisations to help provide patients and their caregivers with low cost access to trusted research about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases. www.patientinform.org www.publishers4patientaccess.org [email protected] 3 Society

Media Access STM Digest

Elsevier helps journalists investigate and report Through STM Digest Elsevier offers summaries on the complex world of science by providing of socially-impactful research papers in an credentialed media with free access to a range easy to comprehend format. These “lay of tools. With access to trusted and quality abstracts” make research accessible to more research and information, reporters can more people by lowering the barriers presented accurately inform and educate the public about by specialist terminology, something which science in the broadest sense. Free media can prevent non-professionals from reading access is provided to key Elsevier databases research articles. These summaries can be and analytical tools including: ScienceDirect, accessed and read by everyone for free and Scopus, ClinicalKey and SciVal. are presented with a link to the full-text article www.elsevier.com/newsroom on ScienceDirect. www.elsevier.com/about-stm-digest

4 Citizen Science Atlas Share Links

Atlas is an online platform and award Upon publishing their article in an Elsevier programme that recognises world-changing journal, authors receive a customised ‘Share research published in Elsevier journals and Link’ to their article on ScienceDirect, which makes it accessible to citizens. Articles covering they can then share with anyone through any the themes of people, planet, resources or communication channel, including social technology are picked by an independent, media. Clicking on this link provides 50 days international group of experts and made freely free access to their article. available on ScienceDirect. The author can also www.elsevier.com/share-link work with a science journalist who will rewrite the scientific article into one that is more accessible to the general public. This article will then be published on the Atlas platform. www.elsevier.com/atlas

AudioSlides Science & People

Elsevier journals offer authors the option to This is an event series aimed at facilitating present their published research in a free the exchange of information between webcast-style, audio presentation. With an easy researchers, experts and the interested public; template and tool, authors can in their own reaching out to those who might otherwise not words record and upload their explanation of be in regular contact with science, and creating the research, giving them a way to promote a hub where people can actively engage with their work to a wider audience. AudioSlides are socially-relevant research topics. The events are published online next to the published article always organised in collaboration with local on ScienceDirect and are open for all users; research institutes and non-profit partners. recorded presentations can also be uploaded www.elsevier.com/science-and-people to YouTube or embedded on other websites. www.elsevier.com/audioslides

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Wikipedia Library’s Access Donation Program Onsite Access for UK Public Libraries

As a contributing publisher to the Wikipedia As a contributing publisher to the Access Library’s Access Donation Program, Elsevier to Research programme, Elsevier offers provides top Wikipedia editors free access participating public libraries in the UK free to ScienceDirect. This helps editors research access to ScienceDirect. Through Access to topics, edit articles and cite authoritative Research, students, independent researchers sources on Wikipedia, improving the and the public in the UK can walk into their encyclopaedia and bringing the best quality local library and access many of the world’s information to the public. best academic papers from leading publishers www.elsevier.com/wikipedia-editor-access- who have made published content available program for free. www.accesstoresearch.org.uk

6 Citizen Science Research4Life Accessible Books Consortium (ABC)

Through a network of UN agencies, ABC aims to increase the number of books universities and publishers, Research4Life worldwide in accessible formats (braille, audio provides research for free or at low cost, to and large print) and make them available to academic institutions, hospitals, government people who are blind, visually impaired or and nonprofit organisations in developing otherwise print disabled. It is an inclusive countries. Its goal is to foster evidence-based partnership organisation led by the World healthcare and policy making as well as a Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and strong, independent research culture and involving advocacy organisations, authors, integrate science from low resource countries libraries and publishers, including Elsevier. into the global research arena. As a founding www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org partner, Elsevier contributes more than a quarter of the nearly 70,000 peer reviewed, online resources made available through Pint of Science Research4Life, which resulted in over 5 million article downloads last year. Pint of Science is a global initiative that aims www.research4life.org to shed light on science in a fun, engaging and approachable way. It takes it out of the labs and libraries and brings it to pubs and bars. It offers Bookshare established, early-career and non-professional researchers a podium to exchange information Elsevier has made a collection of its top with colleagues as well as the public; they book titles available in accessible format on receive feedback from a diverse audience, Bookshare.org, the world’s largest online hear perspectives from non-specialists and library for people with print disabilities. garner attention for their work outside the lab. www.bookshare.org Elsevier has been an active partner, sponsor and promoter of the Pint of Science festival supporting events in the UK, Germany, Brazil Load2Learn and the United States. www.pintofscience.com Blind and dyslexic students can access research published in Elsevier titles in accessible format by working with Load2Learn, a web-based service delivered by RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People UK). www.load2learn.org

[email protected] 7 REISearch The Science Media Centre

Launched at the beginning of 2014, REISearch As an independent charity, the SMC believes is a European Commission co-funded project that scientists can have a huge impact on aimed to create an online arena for responsible the way the media cover scientific issues, by and informed multi-stakeholder debate. The engaging more quickly and more effectively initiative’s ambition is to better understand the with the stories that are influencing public evidence, the constraints and the opinions of debate and attitudes to science. Their goal citizens across Europe on key societal issues is to provide, for the benefit of the public by bridging communication gaps between and policymakers, accurate and evidence- science, society, media and policymakers; based information about science and Elsevier is an active supporter of the initiative. engineering through the media, particularly www.reisearch.eu on controversial and headline news stories when most confusion and misinformation occurs. Elsevier has been a proud supporter of the SMC since 2006. www.sciencemediacentre.org

White City Maker Challenge Programme, Sense About Science Imperial College London

An independent campaigning charity that Imperial College London has created a challenges the misrepresentation of science programme to support more than 100 young and evidence in public life. They advocate people from disadvantaged urban communities openness and honesty about research findings, around London to become the next generation and work to ensure the public interest in of “makers” and entrepreneurs. The Maker sound science and evidence is recognised in Challenge Programme enables children public discussion and policy making. Since between ages 14-18 to engage with science, 2006 Elsevier has partnered with Sense about engineering and design topics. Activities Science on a unique programme of events and and workshops will be held in a dedicated publications to increase the understanding of maker space at Imperial’s White City Campus, peer review among journalists, policymakers with support and expertise from staff and and the public as well as to engage and inspire students of the world’s top 10 universities. The early career researchers to stand up for science Elsevier Foundation is a key contributer to the in public debates around the world. programme through its three-year grant. www.senseaboutscience.org www.imperial.ac.uk

8 Citizen Science VALERIE Research Project, Wageningen University - the Netherlands

There is a compelling need for research to play a significant role to help tackle the global challenge of increased demand for food. Many EU and nationally funded projects in the fields of agriculture and forestry provide excellent results, yet translation of these results into farming practices is limited. Driven by Wageningen University, the aim of the Valerie Research Project is to boost innovation by integrating empirical knowledge into field practice- i.e. bringing science to farmers in the Netherlands. Elsevier is a proud contributor to the project, providing support with database development, and through free access to key journals within agriculture and forestry disciplines. This content will feed directly into the “ask-Valerie.eu” – the search engine that will serve as a knowledge portal for farmers. www.valerie.eu

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