As we reflect on 2024, it’s clear that Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) has had an exceptional year of growth, innovation, and collaboration. From launching new partnerships and enhancing…
October 21-27, 2024 marks International Open Access Week, an event that celebrates and promotes the principles of open access (OA). The theme of this year’s OA week is…
As we bid farewell to 2023, it's time to reflect on the remarkable strides we've made in the pursuit of excellence in scientific publishing. This has been the first…
International Open Access Week, an annual initiative organized by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee, takes place this year from October 23-29. The theme for…
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…
This year for International Open Access Week, two movements have merged—climate justice and open access. Climate justice is a movement acknowledging the unequal effects of climate change among global…
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…
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…
Reviewed by the author in March 2024. They’re exploding in number, at times controversial, and they've changed scholarly publishing—preprints. A preprint is a manuscript not yet certified by peer…