The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, are delighted to announce the winners, and honourable mentions, for the 2025 Open Scholarship Awards.

Award recipients demonstrated exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. Open scholarship incorporates open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more publicly.

Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

Award

Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne and the PARADISEC team

Honourable Mentions

"But I Live" Educators' Resource, Andrea Webb, University of British Columbia

Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, Stephen Robertson, George Mason University

Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage professionals

Award

East Bay Punk Digital Archive, Stefano Morello, CUNY Graduate Centre

Honourable Mentions

Ni una menos: A collective identity in Rebeca Lane's rap, Silvia Rivera Alfaro, CUNY Graduate Center

Collaging the Queer: An Abstract Self-Portraiture Workshop on Gender Abolition and Identity Creation, Jazmyne Olson, Undergraduate, Weber State University

We would like to thank all those who nominated a project for the awards, and our selection panel, and will be announcing the call for nominations for the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards later this year.