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Shirk, J. L., H. L. Ballard, C. C. Wilderman, T. Phillips, A. Wiggins, R. Jordan, E. McCallie, M. Minarchek, B. V. Lewenstein, M. E. Krasny, and R. Bonney, 2012, Public participation in scientific research: a framework for deliberate design: Ecology and Society, v. 17, no. 2, article 29. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04705-170229)
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Wolf, E.B , Poore, B.S., Caro, H.K., and Matthews, G.D., 2011. Volunteer map data collection at the USGS: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3103, 2 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3103/) (and attached)
Simple Google searches on the phrase "citizen science" + site:.domain_name.
Open Knowledge Foundation: Tools for open science
Projects noted by others.
Courses, tutorials and modules designed to help you implement citizen science programs in educational settings
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Links shared from Heather Henkel
An article this morning got me wondering - is the CS group looking at crowdsourcing in science? Some good examples:
http://news.discovery.com/space/near-earth-asteroid-discovered-via-crowd-sourcing-111012.html
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1005/Crowdsourcing-science-how-gamers-are-changing-scientific-discovery