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Changing academic culture with a narrative CV
Replacing the traditional ‘listing everything’ approach is long overdue.
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Caveat emptor: preprint servers in biomedical science
While the advantages of preprint servers are numerous, researchers need to be very clear about the fact that these findings have not been formally assessed by the scientific community.
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Canada must embrace new digital developments in scholarly publishing
Exciting innovations in journal publishing worldwide are leaving us behind in terms of knowledge dissemination.
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Publish or perish: women in research call for an end to systemic discrimination
The global COVID-19 crisis offers universities the ideal pretext to change their practices and rethink their definition of academic work and its value.
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COVID-19 pandemic shakes up the world of scientific publishing
Scientific publishing is experiencing major changes these days, with increased production of scientific data, open-access publications and online prepublication. Can these changes last?
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How Ottawa’s Centre for Journalology is tackling the scourge of predatory publishers
Last year, the centre led a historic meeting of research stakeholders that ended with a consensus definition of predatory publishing. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Setting the CanLit canon on fire
How controversy, curriculum change and emerging perspectives are shifting the study of Canadian literature.
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Professors protest with poetry
Ontario’s 2018 budget cuts to French-language services denounced in a collection of poems by Franco-Ontarian academics.
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Reflections and recollections from University Affairs editors
To mark the magazine’s 60th anniversary, current editor Léo Charbonneau sits down with the magazine’s two preceding editors to look back on the issues, events and personalities covered in its pages over the years.
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The trolls have infested academic peer review
The blinded review process, paired with our snide internet culture, encourages boorish and unethical behaviour.
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The realities of journal publishing: a view from Canada’s not-for-profits
Canadian publishers produce more than 200 scholarly journals, many bilingual and some more than 100 years old.
