Who Owns Our Knowledge? Reflections on Open Access Week 2025 from uOttawa

Each October, International Open Access Week invites the global scholarly community to reflect on…


Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture

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


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

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


Lucía Céspedes, research associate at the ScholCommLab, smiles into the camera.

Three questions with... Lucía!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the…


Three questions with... Diego!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members…


Person sits at a desk staring into their computer filled with graphs

New preprint explores tracing data reuse and citations

In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data. Yet it remains unclear…


Marc-André Simard smiles into the camera in Rome, Italy.

Three questions with... Marc-André!

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the…


Scholarly Communications Lab members smile into the camera while standing outside the 2022 STI conference hall.

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

This September, the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators…


Screenshot of Charite Hospital's OS Dashboard

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

From data sharing mandates to clinical trial registration, Open Science (OS) policies for…


Keynote talk: The most innovative methods are sometimes the simplest

Keynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin at the 13th annual EBSI-SIS Information Science Symposium…