Citation Justice in STEMM

Our students are smart! Talk to them about the impact citations have and who's voices might be missing from the scholarly conversation in your discipline.

Here are some other ideas on how you can get students thinking critically about the literature they use...

• Create a living document or a Zotero library where students can suggest readings.
• When students hand in assignments, have a component of the assignment that has them reflect on which sources they've included and why, and also consider any gaps in their selected sources.
• Have students audit the bibliography of a chosen text and identify any gaps. Take it a step further by having them find relevant sources that would diversify the bibliography.
• Go through the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) Lab Citational politics training module and assignment with your students.
• Have your students go through the Importance of Citational Justice tutorial by University of Arizona Libraries
• Talk to your students about the history of academia--who did, or did not, have access to institutions of higher learning and what the implications of that were (and continue to be) on who's voices are represented in your disciplines scholarship.

The slide decks below, created by librarians and scholars, can be used to introduce the ideas of citation justice to various audiences.

• Citation needed: Amplifying voices in our scholarship, by Liz Chenevey from James Madison University (licensed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license), See also Liz Chenevey's related article Teaching the Politics of citation (2023).
• Intro to citation justice workshop, by UVIC Libraries (licensed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license)
• Citation justice in STEMM, by Andrea Miller-Nesbitt (licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)

• Chenevey, L. (n.d.). Citation Needed: Amplyfying voices in our scholarship. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HlFWVlyt9zNLvnj-Prbl4GmuFtZbMuZiCUw4mAvXzMw

• Chenevey, L. (2023). Teaching the politics of citation: Challenging students’ perceptions. College & Research Libraries News, 84(5), 152. https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/viewFile/25887/33825

• Liboiron, Max. (2023). “Citational politics training module,” CLEAR lab. Available at https://civiclaboratory.nl/2023/08/08/citational-politics-training-module/. Accessed on September 27, 2024.

• UVIC Libraries. (2024). Citation justice: Amplifying voices in our scholarship. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16pbosUu4D69tBhXTWkQOkNKEz6iakmNQuWJvXBn9Hug