ULSIT and the implementation of Open Science
ULSIT is a boutique university that preserves spirituality – the documents of the past to pass on to the modern world for the future. This is our mission in modern science – open to people. Students have the unique opportunity to familiarize themselves with authentic documentary evidence and to use the publicly available databases built […]
Libraries as Implementers of Citizen Science
Libraries can be implementers of Citizen Science and prove to be strong partners in supporting scientific research. To better explain this position to Croatian librarians, Dolores Mumelaš from the National and University Library in Zagreb has written and published a review article titled "Citizen Science and Libraries as its Implementers," and the highlighted conclusions are […]
Fix Cyprus: A platform and mobile app to improve the Cyprus road network infrastructure and road safety
Over the last few years, the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE), which operates within the University of Cyprus, has developed two applications: FixCyprus and KIOS CoE mobile app. The two applications contribute to Citizen Science. This blog post focuses on FixCyprus. Fix Cyprus is a cost-effective crowdsourcing service for road transportation […]
Advancing Open and Citizen Science in the Balkans: Unveiling the Insights from the PR4 CeOS_SE Project Survey
The CeOS_SE Project stands on six interconnected objectives, each leading to tangible project results for Southeast Europe. One of these objectives, PR4, focuses on the Balkans region. The University Library “Svetozar Marković” Belgrade (UNILIB) leads PR4 and has undertaken the task of creating a Roadmap on CeOS in the Balkans. The Building Blocks: A Survey […]
First CeOS Multiplier Event in Belgrade
UNILIB Belgrade is a leader of the PR4 of the CeOS project from February to August 2023. Throughout this period, UNILIB assumed the crucial responsibility of conducting a comprehensive survey involving academic librarians from the Balkan region and Cyprus. The findings of this survey served as a foundation for creating an innovative Roadmap on CeOS […]
Citizen Science: experiences from integrity building
The benefits of Citizen Science come in many shapes and forms. Τhe experience can be universal and accessible as a big part of it is the use of the technology available. Ιt is no coincidence that the recent rise of Citizen Science has coincided with the advancement of technology the last couple of years. Having […]
The HAWathon – a Croatian crowdsourcing competition
Libraries can rely on crowdsourcing projects to support their business development, as demonstrated by the HAWathon project, whose data was used to build a digital thematic collection. The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), relying on the knowledge gained from the CeOS_SE project, is the main organiser of the HAWathon project. Three departments of […]
