Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Molly Frost

, a research assistant with the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Molly shares her excitement about her recent involvement with the lab and encourages us to embrace curiosity wholeheartedly.

Three questions with&#8230; Molly!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Molly Frost,

a research assistant at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Molly shares what excites her about her new role at the lab and encourages us to embrace curiosity wholeheartedly.  Q#1 What are you working on at the lab?

This blog post is reposted with permission from the Swiss Year of Scientometrics. You can read the original post here.

This blog post is reposted with permission from the Swiss Year of Scientometrics. You can read the original post here.


 On 10
 
 th
 
 of September 2025, the sixth lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) took place at ETH Zurich.

The 6th lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics: Together for better research representation

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces Sherry Kuang, a master´s student and research assistant at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Sherry shares her excitement about the insights she has gained from a wide variety of sources, ranging from a recent class co-taught by some of our lab members to Tang dynasty poetry.

Three questions with&#8230; Sherry!

Alice Fleerackers

Press release originally published by Simon Fraser University on January 6, 2021

A new SFU-led study finds that almost half of media stories in early 2020 featuring COVID-19 ‘preprint’ research—research that has not yet been peer-reviewed—accurately framed the studies as being preprints or unverified research.

Almost half of media stories fail to label &#8216;preprint&#8217; COVID-19 research

Designed to support “innovators developing prototypes or community projects to improve open science and research communication,” the eLife Innovation Program offers a mix of expert advice, presentations by guest speakers, collaborative workshopping, homework assignments, mentorship, and more.

Stefanie Haustein was scrolling through her feed when she stumbled on it. A tweet from eLife Innovation promoting a program called “Open Innovation Leaders.” It promised design thinking, open communications, and sustainability—all with only a two hour per week time commitment. Intrigued, she clicked through. Three months later, Stefanie is five weeks deep into what is fast becoming a favourite part of her work week.

ScholCommLab Co-director Goes Back to School: Open Innovation Leaders 2020

ScholCommLab

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces Hovagim Zakarian, a research assistant at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Hovagim invites us to go with the flow and shares an exciting project involving bees!    Q#1 What are you working on at the lab? I’m just starting with the lab.

Three questions with&#8230; Hovagim!

On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya released a statement accelerating the timeline […]

On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya released a statement accelerating the timeline for the new Public Access Policy, kicking up a flurry of activity and discussion about open access (OA). The new policy, in effect since July 1 2025, requires immediate OA without allowing for the 12-month embargo period that publishers have long claimed as necessary for sustaining subscriptions.

NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence

As ScholCommLab co-director Juan Pablo Alperin continues advancing in his career, he reflects on the path that brought him here.

As ScholCommLab co-director Juan Pablo Alperin continues advancing in his career, he reflects on the path that brought him here. In this blog post, he revisits his professional journey and most notable achievements, including the founding and ongoing impact of the ScholCommLab. He also opens up about some of the challenges he has faced and overcome along the way, and shares the steps he plans to take as he looks ahead.

Juan Pablo Alperin reflects on his academic career

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Cathy Fang

, a student at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Cathy talks about what excites her about her current and future work, and shares some of her beautiful artwork with us!  Q#1 What are you working on at the lab?

Three questions with&#8230; Cathy!

Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge.

Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge. But, as we continue to see OS be adopted across the world, it becomes increasingly clear that not all forms of OS fulfill the goal of advancing the

 common good

. In fact, some approaches may even hinder it. There is broad consensus that OS should benefit society.

Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture

After three years of collaboration across four countries and multiple disciplines, the VOICES project has come to a close.

What VOICES Taught Us About Open Science and Inclusion in Times of Crisis

By Alice Fleerackers, with input from Yao-Hua Law, Mario Malički, Luisa Massarani, Chelsea Ratcliff, and François van Schalkwyk

By Alice Fleerackers, with input from Yao-Hua Law, Mario Malički, Luisa Massarani, Chelsea Ratcliff, and François van Schalkwyk

 The annual Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI) offers opportunities for interdisciplinary and international teams to come together to pursue complex projects related to a common theme.

Studying “Pre-Truth” Science: The 2023 Scholarly Communications Institute

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou

, a postdoctoral fellow at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Maxime reflects on his trajectory and commitment to advancing an open science that is also more equitable and accountable.

Three questions with&#8230; Maxime!

This blog post is the last of a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at […]

This blog post is the last of a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at the Swiss Year of Scientometrics


 lecture


 and


 workshop


 series at ETH Zurich on June 7, 2023.

Responsible use of metrics As a last topic, I want to address a very important area that I think for a very long time has been ignored by the scientometric community—namely the use of the metrics that it

Swiss Year of Scientometrics Lecture: Opportunities and Challenges of Scientometrics–Part IV

This blog post is the second in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at […]

This blog post is the second in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at the Swiss Year of Scientometrics


 lecture


 and


 workshop


 series at ETH Zurich on June 7, 2023.

Swiss Year of Scientometrics Lecture: Opportunities and Challenges of Scientometrics–Part II

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Margaret Rose

, research assistant at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Margaret offers a glimpse into some of her inspiring projects and reflects on a piece of advice from her brother that has guided her for nearly 30 years. Q#1 What are you working on at the lab?

Three questions with&#8230; Margaret!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Lucía Céspedes

, a research associate at ScholCommLab. In this interview, Lucía tells us about her exciting work and encourages us to dare to write, rewrite, and publish, while letting go of the unachievable desire to read it all.

Three questions with&#8230; Lucía!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Belen Febres-Cordero

, the new manager of the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Belen shares what excites her about her work, both inside and outside the lab, and two pieces of advice from childhood that have shaped her curious and lively approach to research and life.

Three questions with&#8230; Belen!

At the ScholCommLab, we believe that information about research outputs—such as publications, funding, and data—should be open, transparent, and community-governed.

At the ScholCommLab, we believe that information about research outputs—such as publications, funding, and data—should be open, transparent, and community-governed. That’s why we are proud to sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. We already did so in the fall of 2024, but we’re happy to explain the background in this blog post.

ScholCommLab signs Barcelona Declaration

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces

 Dr. Diego Chavarro

, a Research Associate at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Diego tells us what excites him most about his work.

Three questions with&#8230; Diego!

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) hosted their fifth Scientometrics Summer School (CS3) from September 18-26, 2023 in […]

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) hosted their fifth Scientometrics Summer School (CS

 3

) from September 18-26, 2023 in Leiden, the Netherlands. CS

 3

turns theoretical ideas into hands-on research by engaging scientometrics graduate students with data, methods, and techniques used in the field. ScholCommLab members Chantal Ripp, Maddie Hare, Leigh-Ann Butler, and Rémi Toupin attended this year’s event.

Back to class: Reflections from the 2023 CWTS Summer School

The review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process is central to academic life and workplace advancement.

The review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process is central to academic life and workplace advancement. It influences where faculty direct their attention, research, and publications. By unveiling the RPT process, we can inform actions that lead towards a greater opening of research.

Rethinking Research Assessment for the Greater Good: Findings from the RPT Project

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Maddie Hare, a doctoral student in the Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) Program at the University of Ottawa—and the newest member of the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with&#8230; Maddie!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions



series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. In this week’s post we’re highlighting Cecilia Rozemblum, a PhD student in the ScholCommLab based at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. With two degrees under her belt already—one in librarianship and documentation—she’s excited to be almost done her third.

Three questions with… Cecilia!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing.  This week’s post features Kathleen Gregory, a postdoctoral researcher exploring data citation practices—and the newest member of the ScholCommLab. In this interview, she shares her biggest questions about how researchers use data and offers one simple tip to help with everything from paper writing to home decorating.

Three questions with… Kathleen!

This blog post is the third in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at […]

This blog post is the third in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at the Swiss Year of Scientometrics


 lecture


 and


 workshop


 series at ETH Zurich on June 7, 2023.

Swiss Year of Scientometrics Lecture: Opportunities and Challenges of Scientometrics–Part III

“Denying a professor tenure, Harvard sparks a debate over ethnic studies,” reads a New York Times story published in January […]

“Denying a professor tenure, Harvard sparks a debate over ethnic studies,” reads a

 New York Times

story published in January 2020. “After twice being denied tenure, this Naval Academy professor says she is seeking justice,” a more recent headline proclaims. “Academic tenure: In desperate need of reform or of defenders?” asks another.

Not “collegial” enough: New study examines unsaid criteria in the tenure process

By Chantal Ripp, with editorial support by Olivia Aguiar

The 90

 th

annual ACFAS conference was held at the Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, and Polytechnique Montréal from May 8 to May 12, 2023. Over the years, the ACFAS Congress has become the largest multidisciplinary gathering of Francophone scholars, attracting participants from around the world.

ScholCommLab at ACFAS 2023

In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data.

In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data. Yet it remains unclear how widespread data reuse and citation practices are within academic disciplines, and why scientists cite—or do not cite—data in their research work.

New preprint explores tracing data reuse and citations

In the slow, unpredictable world of journal publication, preprints—unreviewed published papers—offer a mechanism for rapidly communicating health research with the […]

In the slow, unpredictable world of journal publication, preprints—unreviewed published papers—offer a mechanism for rapidly communicating health research with the scholarly community. Historically, media coverage of preprints was discouraged in journalism, due to potential concerns about reporting flawed, biased, or provisional research.

How is emerging health research communicated online?

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post highlights Marc-André Simard, a doctoral student in Information Science at the University of Montreal and member of the ScholCommLab. In this post, he shares his thoughts on work in the lab, the global use of open access literature, and stepping out of his comfort zones.

Three questions with&#8230; Marc-André!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post features Fatou Bah, a master’s student in the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at the University of Ottawa (UOttawa), Data Support Specialist in Research Data Management at the UOttawa Library, and research assistant at the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with… Fatou!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Rukhsana Ahmed, an Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Three questions with… Rukhsana!

By Olivia Aguiar and Alice Fleerackers During the pandemic, more research was shared openly, more preprints were posted, and we […]

By Olivia Aguiar and Alice Fleerackers

During the pandemic, more research was shared openly, more preprints were posted, and we saw an explosion in the public communication of science, particularly in mainstream media. In the long-term, these changes have the potential to foster more open, diverse, and inclusive approaches to research and bolster our capacity to face present and future societal challenges.

Introducing VOICES: Understanding equity and inclusion in open science

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today we’re highlighting Heather Woods, a part-time professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, researcher and podcaster in Social Emotional Learning, and member of the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with&#8230; Heather!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Natascha Chtena, a postdoctoral fellow and research coordinator for the Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World (VOICES) project at the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with&#8230; Natascha!

Scholarly metrics are widely applied to assess research quality and impact despite their known limitations.

Scholarly metrics are widely applied to assess research quality and impact despite their known limitations. One of the most popular scholarly metrics is the h-index—which is defined as the “

 h

number of papers with at least

 h

number of citations.” This means that if a researcher has an h-index of 12, they have published 12 papers with at least 12 citations each.

Becoming Metrics Literate: New Study Examines Videos on the H-index

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Our latest post features Olivia Aguiar, a lab manager at the ScholCommLab and a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University’s Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab (IPML). In this Q&amp;A, she tells us about creating science comics, interviewing “super seniors,” setting boundaries, and more.

Three questions with… Olivia!

From data sharing mandates to clinical trial registration, Open Science (OS) policies for biomedical research are in no short supply.

From data sharing mandates to clinical trial registration, Open Science (OS) policies for biomedical research are in no short supply. But ensuring those policies become real-world practices can be a challenge—particularly when there’s no simple way to measure success.

Turning policy into practice: The Biomedical Research Open Science Dashboard project

Six years ago, Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein sat down at a bar in Amsterdam after a full day […]

Six years ago, Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein sat down at a bar in Amsterdam after a full day of participating in a conference. They came for a drink and an opportunity to connect over shared interests, but they left with an ambitious plan that would change both of their careers. On the backs of beer napkins, a project aimed at understanding the societal impact of research with the help of altmetrics started to take shape.

Double tenure: ScholCommLab co-directors celebrate a career milestone together

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions



series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post features Laura Moorhead, an assistant professor in San Francisco State University’s Journalism department and a research associate with the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with… Laura!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions



series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. In this week’s post, PhD student and writer Alice Fleerackers shares her thoughts on managing the ScholCommLab blog, learning through collaboration, and letting commitments go.  Q#1 What are you working on at the lab?  The TLDR version? I communicate research and I research communication.

Three questions with… Alice!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions



series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. In today’s post, we’re highlighting Germana Barata, a science communication scholar and practitioner with interests in social media, altmetrics, and science journals.

Three questions with&#8230; Germana!

Data management is a core aspect of the research process, helping scholars organize their work, share it with others, and collaborate effectively.

Managing research data: A beginner&#8217;s guide

Join us for the next Open Science Beers YVR   Thursday, March 14, 20196 PM – 9 PM The Emerald (555 Gore Ave) About Open Science Beers YVR   During last year’s FORCE11 conference, the idea was born to recreate Montreal’s popular Open Science Beers event right here in our very own Vancouver. Now, that idea has become a reality. Each month, we’re bringing together friends of Open Science* for a casual evening of drinks and conversation.

Open Science Beers YVR

The ScholCommLab is pleased to welcome three visiting scholars to Ottawa this fall: Kate Williams, Enrique Orduña Malea, and Rodrigo Costas. Each of these visitors will spend a short stay at the lab, working with the team on a research project of their choosing. The hope is that these partnerships will pave the way for future collaborations, and interesting research in the long term.

Visiting Scholars at the ScholCommLab

Taking place from Oct 11 to 12 in Montreal, QC, FORCE 2018 is a multi-disciplinary conference dedicated to creating a more open future for scholarly communications. This year, the conference will bring together a diverse mix of publishers, librarians, students, and policy makers—as well as several members of the ScholCommLab!

ScholCommLab to be a “Force” at FORCE2018

This July, ScholCommLab’s Stefanie Haustein attended the sixth ever Brazilian Meeting on Bibliometrics and Scientometrics in Rio de Janeiro. In this short Q&amp;A, she shares highlights from the event, including a keynote presentation about her work on Twitter and scholarly communication, connections with researchers from around the world, and a healthy dose of delicious Brazilian cocktails.

Highlights from the Brazilian Meeting on Bibliometrics and Scientometrics

Starting this week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein is publishing a series of guest posts on the Altmetric Blog about the role of Twitter in scholarly communication. Read on for a small taste of what to expect, and find the whole series at at altmetric.com/blog/.
 

It’s almost been a decade since altmetrics and social media-based metrics were introduced.

Stefanie Haustein on the Altmetric Blog

In the last of our four-part series documenting the methodological challenges we faced during our project investigating preprint growth and uptake, we turn to the metadata of arXiv’s Quantitative Biology section.

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin


 This blog post is the last of a four part series documenting the methodological challenges we faced during our


 project


 investigating preprint growth and uptake.

Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with metadata from arXiv’s Quantitative Biology section

Doctors are moving out of their clinics and taking over the digital world.

Doctors are moving out of their clinics and taking over the digital world. Many physicians are engaging in digital media, sharing their expertise and opinions on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. But little is known on how doctors are mediating health research on social media.  Noha Atef, a postdoctoral fellow at the ScholCommLab, led a series of qualitative studies on doctors who create video blogs (or vlogs) on YouTube.

Behind the scenes: New research on doctors who vlog

By Alice Fleerackers (Simon Fraser University) and Lauren A Maggio (Uniformed Services University of the Health Science) Journalists covering scientific […]

By Alice Fleerackers (Simon Fraser University) and Lauren A Maggio (Uniformed Services University of the Health Science)

A story on gender inequity in scientific research industries. A deep dive into the daily rhythms of the immune system. A look at vaccine effectiveness for COVID-19 variants.

Journalists reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic relied on research that had yet to be peer reviewed

What research outputs do faculty believe are valued in RPT decisions? How do these beliefs affect where and what they publish?

By Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski, Erin McKiernan, and Juan Pablo Alperin – with Alice Fleerackers

As tenured faculty positions become increasingly competitive, the pressure to publish—especially in “high impact” journals—has never been greater. As a result, many of today’s academics believe having a strong publication record is necessary for the review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process.

Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the RPT process

This September, the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022) was held in Granada, Spain and […]

This September, the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022) was held in Granada, Spain and the ScholCommLab left its mark at the first in-person edition of the conference since the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Re)connecting in Granada: Attending the 2022 International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators

Which researchers preprint more than others in their network? In which research fields is preprinting growing in popularity, and in which fields is adoption disproportionately low?

“Academic life” by uonottingham is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0  “For researchers, there is immense pressure to publish in journals that are highly competitive,” says Naomi Penfold, associate director of the scientist-driven nonprofit ASAPbio.

To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system

As governments across the world grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, several other urgent crises have taken a back seat.  Among them is the opioid epidemic. Here in Vancouver, BC, where almost half of our team is based, the effects of this second, fatal crisis are visible every day. Just this May, our province reported a record-breaking number of overdose-related deaths: 170 in a single month, or about 5.5 a day.

New study: Tracking opioid science in the news

This blog post is the first in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at […]

This blog post is the first in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at the Swiss Year of Scientometrics


 lecture


 and


 workshop


 series at ETH Zurich on June 7, 2023.

Swiss Year of Scientometrics Lecture: Opportunities and Challenges of Scientometrics–Part I

Looking Ahead to SCW18’s “How I Scicomm” Panel What does it mean to be a science communicator in 2018?

Looking Ahead to SCW18’s “How I Scicomm” Panel
 

What does it mean to be a science communicator in 2018? With new apps and social platforms emerging each year, Canada’s media landscape is rapidly transforming—as is the way we share and consume research. But how are these changes affecting today’s science communicators? What challenges and opportunities do they present?

Unpacking the Social Side of Science Communication

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Our latest post features Mario Malički, a former visiting scholar and ongoing collaborator at the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with… Mario!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions



series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post features Lisa Matthias, a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Three questions with… Lisa!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions



series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Asura Enkhbayar, a PhD student and data scientist at the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with… Asura!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions

series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today, we’re highlighting Erica Morissette, a master’s student in Information Studies at the University of Ottawa, a researcher at the ScholCommLab, and a self declared “nature nerd.”

Three questions with …. Erica!

Sanam Ebrahimzadeh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a research associate at the ScholCommLab. Here, she tells us more about her research—a fascinating blend of work on data sharing, scholarly metrics, accuracy reviews, and more.

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions

series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. In today’s post, we spoke with Sanam Ebrahimzadeh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a research associate at the ScholCommLab. In this post, she tells us more about her research—a fascinating blend of work on data sharing, scholarly metrics, accuracy reviews, and more.

Three questions with…. Sanam!

The internet has made scientific research more available to the public and the media.(Shutterstock) Alice Fleerackers, Simon Fraser University and […]

Alice Fleerackers,

 Simon Fraser University

and Juan Pablo Alperin,

 Simon Fraser University

COVID-19 has not only upended our personal lives, it has dramatically changed scientific research. In response to the rapid spread of the virus, scientists around the world have had to find new ways to collaborate and solve problems, all at speeds previously thought unimaginable.

In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions

series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today, we’re highlighting Michelle La, a master’s student studying the subculture of sneaker enthusiasts at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and a research assistant at the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with…. Michelle!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions

series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today, we’re highlighting Isabella Peters, a new research associate at the ScholCommLab and a professor of Web Science at the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and CAU Kiel University.

Three questions with… Isabella!

Our lab is growing! In our

 Three Questions

series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today, we’re highlighting Leigh-Ann Butler, a master’s student at the University of Ottawa’s School of Information Studies, a Policy Analyst at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and a research assistant at the ScholCommLab.

Three questions with&#8230;Leigh-Ann!

“We want to support the evidence-based development of metrics that are appropriate and well thought-out instead of repeating mistakes of the past by creating more flawed indicators.”

Stefanie Haustein wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research grant of $200K US
 

Have you ever wondered what motivates researchers to reuse open data and what makes them cite (or not cite) datasets in their work? Or how sharing, reusing and citing open data differs between research areas or changes during a researcher’s career? ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie was awarded $199,929 US ($281,660 CDN) by the Alfred P.

ScholCommLab co-director receives funding to analyze patterns of how research data is cited and reused 

By Mario Malički and Juan Pablo Alperin This blog post is inspired by our four part series documenting the methodological […]

Juan Pablo Alperin

By Mario Malički and Juan Pablo Alperin


 This blog post is inspired by our


 four part series


 documenting the methodological challenges we faced during our


 project


 investigating preprint growth and uptake.

Interested in creating or improving a preprint server?

Four recommendations for improving preprint metadata

Keynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin for Open Education 2019: Transforming Teaching &amp; Learning at SFU on May 27, 2019.

K


 eynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin for


 Open Education 2019: Transforming Teaching &amp; Learning at SFU


 on May 27, 2019.


 Overview

Introduction Public purpose of higher education Why do I practice Open Pedagogy? Student feedback on Open Pedagogy

Keynote Talk: Open Education 2019

In this keynote presented at the FSCI 2019, Juan Pablo Alperin discusses the role of incentives in opening access to scholarly research.

Keynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin at FSCI on August 9, 2019.


 Overview

Introduction The case for open access Barriers to open access The role of incentives What do we know about incentives? The Review, Promotion, and Tenure project Digging further into open access What do the RPT documents ask for? What are we to make of all this?

Would including open scholarship in tenure guidelines move the needle?

Working with preprint metadata? As we highlight in this post, OSF’s preprint servers might not be the best place to start.

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin


 This blog post is the second in a four part series documenting the methodological challenges we faced during our


 project


 investigating preprint growth and uptake.

Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with OSF metadata

In this four-part blog series, we explore the many challenges we encountered in working with preprint metadata, including lack of documentation, missing values, and incompatible and erroneous data.

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin

As can be seen from a series of recent publications,

 1-6

there is great interest surrounding

 preprints

—scholarly manuscripts that are published ahead of peer review.

Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with SHARE metadata

How do social annotation tools help students learn? We conducted research in three unique university classrooms to find out.

By Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales, and Remi Kalir
 

Picture the last time you sat down to read an article for class. If your university experience was anything like most students’, chances are, you were alone. While solitary reading has benefits and is a common aspect of learning in higher education, it may not be the most effective way to read.

Comment, reply, repeat: Engaging students with social annotation

Do academics use emojis on Twitter? Stefanie Haustein analyzed more than 40 million tweets mentioning scientific journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, and other documents to find out.

“Should there be an emoji for everything?” asked journalist Sophie Haigney in a recent

 New Yorker

article. “What, exactly, do we want from our emojis?” The future of the emoji may be uncertain, but one thing is abundantly clear. Emojis are booming. From classic smiley faces to dancing “party parrots,” there are now almost 3,000 options to choose from. They fill our text messages, our Slack chats, our emails—even some of our books.

Emojis in Scholarly Communication: 🔥 or 💩?  

By Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales and Erin McKiernan.  First published on the LSE Impact Blog on July 17, 2019.

By Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales and Erin McKiernan.  First published on the LSE Impact Blog on July 17, 2019.
 

The language of Open Access (OA) is littered with so many colours, metals, and precious stones, that you would be forgiven for losing track.

Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community

This week, the Vancouver ScholCommLab packed things in early and hit the bowling lanes. Team bonding, apparently, is best achieved by participating in competitive individual “sports.”   Each of us had their own unique strategic, from granny-style bowling to a carefully orchestrated gutter-bounce approach.

ScholCommLab goes bowling!

“The good news is, we’re not too dumb for democracy,” David Moscrop told a packed room of media, activists, book lovers, academics, and more. “The bad news is, we’re encouraged to be.” On March 21, Moscrop celebrated the launch of his new book,

 Too Dumb for Democracy?

David Moscrop launches &#8216;Too Dumb for Democracy?&#8217;

Published April 8, 2019 by Kate Shuttleworth on the Radical Access Blog

The University of California recently took a bold step in support of open access publishing by terminating subscriptions with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher. We asked SFU Faculty for their thoughts on the cancellation and what this means for open access. What happened?

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