Call for Nominations: 2026 Open Scholarship Awards We are pleased to announce the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (c-ski.ca) and its partners! Nominations for the 2026 awards are due by February 20 2026 via <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/w1t6Q8L4NmNshmhB7 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 2026 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. For the winners of previous awards, see https://etcl.uvic.ca/open-scholarship-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 receive one free tuition scholarship, including accommodations, for the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute at Université de Montréal, June 8-12 and 15-19. To Make a Nomination All nominations should be submitted through the form at <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/w1t6Q8L4NmNshmhB7 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 2026 awards must be received by February 20 2026 via <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/w1t6Q8L4NmNshmhB7 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.