How should you present information in your paper? In the body of the manuscript? In a graph? A diagram? A map? An illustration? When it comes to data, tables…
From geography to ecology to epidemiology to sociology and beyond, much of the data we generate has a spatial element – a physical location, distribution patterns, and geographical relationships…
The concentration of chlorophyll in a leaf. The…
How many Canadian scholarly journals do you think are fully open access? 50? 100? 200? Just last year, academic librarians Jessica Lange and Sarah Severson studied Canada’s publishing industry…
One word that sums up this year for Canadian Science Publishing is community. From partnerships with scientific societies to joining multi-sector collaborations, 2022 was marked by taking action to…
As ever-faster computers give us the ability to collect increasingly more information, demand has grown in the burgeoning field of data science. Professionals who have the skills and training…
Open data—data available for anyone to access, use, and share—are playing a crucial role in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Canada, open government data ensure real-time tracking…
Introduction. Methods. Results. Discussion. The typical structure of an original research paper. Known as the IMRaD format, these papers start with an Introduction section, explain the Methods, present the…
With the open science movement now sweeping across disciplines, researchers are increasingly creating findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) datasets. One way data are made discoverable for reuse is…