This month Health Cascade is releasing the first open access curated database of scientific literature about co-creation and participatory research to make it easier for researchers and practitioners to find evidence and information about co-creation.
Did you find it challenging to find evidence about co-creation and participatory research? Did you find it challenging to pick the appropriate keywords to find literature about co-creation? Do you have the time to sift through a massive amount of literature, that may be about co-creation? Well, you’re not alone. When we started Health CASCADE, the team faced these challenges. Co-creation is used in many different fields, from tourism, the software industry, to environmental sciences — fragmenting knowledge. There are also multiple definitions and different terminologies such as co-production, co-design, co-creation, which are not clearly delineated. And what about the participatory methods? How do they fit into this co-creation mixture?
After eight months working with the entire Health Cascade team, aided by artificial intelligence, we reviewed over 160,000 scientific publications and created a quality assured open resource database that contains 13K relevant citations! We, at Health CASCADE, are aware that we are not the only people passionate about co-creation. We also know that countless researchers are dedicating themselves to using and perfecting its various techniques. Therefore, we’d like to invite you to use our high-quality, open-access database, and help us build it further to begin to shape our collective understanding of co-creation. The database is open access and available here on ZENODO (version 1.5): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6773028
Read more about the database in our blog post here.