How to Cite, Open Access, and Licensing

Every Community Knowledge Publication (CKP) on ScienceReach is published open-access, with a stable link and a citation block, so it can be found, cited, and reused.

Open access and licence

Most CKPs are published in open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY). That means anyone can read, share, and build on a CKP, including in research, teaching, policy work, and community practice, as long as they credit the author and the original publication. Open access keeps community knowledge available to the people and organizations who can use it. ScienceReach holds the rights to publish and maintain each CKP, as set out in the publishing agreement.

How to cite a CKP

Each CKP carries the details you need to cite it: the author or authors, the title, ScienceReach as the publisher, the publication date, and the stable link. A citation block on each publication gives you a ready-to-use reference.

A CKP reference follows this pattern:

Author, A. (Year). Title of the Community Knowledge Publication. ScienceReach. /...

When you cite a CKP, you give visible credit to the community knowledge it represents, and to the organizations and authors behind it.

Finding and linking to a CKP

Every CKP has its own stable page on ScienceReach. That link is the reliable way to point to a publication and the anchor for citing it. You can browse and search all CKPs in our open-access library.

A note on indexing

The stable ScienceReach link is the citation anchor for every CKP today. As our catalogue grows, we are working toward listing CKPs in academic discovery systems so they are easier to find from outside the platform. We describe our publishing as it is now, and we will announce new indexing or identifiers when they are actually in place rather than before.

Questions about citing or reusing a CKP: info@sciencereach.ca.