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…
Various discussions and arguments in social media, and blogs in our scholarly scientific publishing world, have the nebulous underpinning that mission-driven not-for-profit organizations are the “good guys”, while big…
Welcome to Open Access Week 2021! The theme of this year’s event is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”. This theme aligns with the UNESCO…
I’m now a few weeks into my new job as CEO of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP). I’ve just moved from the UK to live in Ottawa, and I’m now…
Today, like days before, I open the cupboard to get the coffee grounds. I open the basement door to go to “the office”. I open new emails. And I…
(Français à suivre) The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us persuasively that openness and collaboration in scientific research are essential in combating the world’s greatest challenges. When Chinese researchers shared…
During my undergraduate degree, I remember all too well the many times when I would search for a journal article that I needed to write a paper, only to…