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…
It’s a Monday morning and you’re still caffeinating when you see an email appear in your inbox: your scientific paper has been conditionally accepted, pending eight pages of suggestions,…
At the end of last year, world leaders met in Glasgow, UK, for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to discuss action on the Paris Agreement and the…
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…
How many times have you wished that you could listen to that new research article you’ve been meaning to read? We have wished for this many times. In our…
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…
For a lot of researchers in the sciences, SEO—short for search engine optimization—seems like little more than an internet marketing buzzword. But as published research enters an increasingly busy…