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Changing academic culture with a narrative CV
Replacing the traditional ‘listing everything’ approach is long overdue.
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Catching up on open access
A decade ago, Canada was at the forefront of open access publishing. Now critics say those policies are due for a drastic rewrite.
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It’s time for Canada to adopt open access for taxpayer-funded research too
The new, bold position of the U.S. government should be a wake-up call to the changing environment of Canadian academia.
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The rise of preprints
How COVID-19 has transformed the way we publish and report on scientific research.
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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.
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Scientific publishing needs to change
While our existing scientific publication system has limited value in this world, the scholarly peer review process is more important than ever.
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We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review
By changing the way we discuss scholarly work, we will not only improve scholarship but also reduce the unnecessary hostility rampant in academia.
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Even an academic hoax needs ethics approval
The authors of the fake “grievance studies” papers would have made a stronger point if they’d gone through an institutional review board.
