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…
This week we’ve been celebrating Peer Review Week, a time to salute and discuss the sometimes controversial process that remains an important cornerstone of scientific research. The theme of the…
From my own perspective, this potential downside to the connections between social media and peer review became apparent when I was recently invited to review a manuscript written by…
In science there are always icons, household names. Some are ubiquitous; most people could quote Einstein’s most famous formula, even if they couldn’t tell you what it actually means.…
Ever wonder where your manuscript goes after you hit "Submit"? At Botany it arrives in the inbox of Editor-in-Chief Dr. Christian Lacroix. Next, it is assigned to one of the journal’s…
If you’ve trained as a scientist, you know that part of the learning curve involves figuring out how to write a scientific paper. Unfortunately, few scientists receive explicit instruction in…