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…
Authorship of scientific papers is more than…
“...meaningful research…” “...address the community priorities…” “...a…
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…
We're here for researchers, not for profits | Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is a not-for-profit publisher of scientific journals. We invest our profits in ways to help researchers make…
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…