*Call for Nominations: 2025 Open Scholarship Awards* We are pleased to announce the *2025 Open Scholarship Awards*, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (c-ski.ca) and its partners! Nominations for the 2025 awards are due by *January 17 2025 *via <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/NdeHTsfbv1Wmsyuq7 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. *Awards, Nominations and Eligibility* Two 2025 awards are available: ● the *Open Scholarship Award*, for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators. ● the *Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award*, for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage professionals. For all awards, the successful candidates will have demonstrated exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. Research, initiative, and project types and formats of all sorts, from all areas, are welcome. Note that it is possible to nominate a project group or team. We welcome nominations that span the technical, theoretical, or creative (or any combination thereof). You may nominate yourself or a colleague for these awards. *Nature of the Awards* These awards are intended to acknowledge and celebrate exemplary open scholarship. In addition to the recognition of accomplishment that comes with such acknowledgement,winners will be invited to present their projects at the *Research Creation, Community Engagement and Open Social Scholarship* *Conference* to be held at Acadia University, May 1-3, 2025. Each winner will receive a travel award of $1250 CAD to take part in the conference. *To Make a Nomination* All nominations should be submitted through the form at <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/NdeHTsfbv1Wmsyuq7 and include the following: ● Name, affiliation, and email address for the nominee; ● Which award the nomination is for (note that you can only submit a nomination to one award category)*; * ● Title and URL of the project, research, or initiative; ● A short abstract for the project, research, or initiative; ● A justification for why the nominee should be considered for an award; ● Contact information for the nominator. Please note that letters of support are not required for nomination. All nominations for the 2025 awards must be received by *January 17th 2025. * *Questions?* Please email [email protected] with any questions or concerns you might have! We look forward to hearing from you. *About the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute* The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) actively engages issues related to open social scholarship: creating and sharing research and research technologies in ways that are accessible and significant to a broad audience that includes specialists and active non-specialists. Representing, coordinating, and supporting the work of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, C-SKI activities include awareness raising, knowledge mobilization, training, public engagement, scholarly communication, and pertinent research and development on local, national, and international levels. Originated in 2015, C-SKI is located in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab in the Digital Scholarship Commons at UVic. C-SKI’s partners, through INKE, include: Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing (CISP), Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), Compute Canada Federation, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG; U Western Sydney), Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), Edith Cowan U, Érudit, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance, J.E. Halliwell Associates, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser U Library, U Victoria Libraries, and Voyant Tools, among others.