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As Ukrainian universities resume online teaching, experts say longer-term solutions must avoid brain drain and look to post-war recovery Help for Ukrainian students and academics should also support the reconstruction of the higher education system when hostilities cease, university leaders said. Ukrainian universities are switching focus from the survival of staff and students to the…
The Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is pleased to announce the members of the Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research (Leadership Circle). This group will advise the presidents of Canada’s three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council—and the Canada Foundation…
Commitments for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have been getting more attention since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report in 2015. The commission documented testimony from over 6,500 residential school survivors and their families – capturing a picture of the trauma and harm those schools inflicted, and the enduring legacy…
Universities are reacting to the invasion in a range of ways, and some could affect the study of Russia and Ukraine for both scholars and students. The Kremlin’s war on Ukraine has evoked such strong reaction in Canadian academia that scholars may remove the word “Russian” from at least one program title. That’s just one…
May-June University Affairs PDF FEATURES The rise of preprints How COVID-19 has transformed the way we publish and report on scientific research A century of scientific growth Tracing the emergence of French-language science in Canada. Aiming for the moon Renewed international interest in our closest celestial neighbour is giving academics a chance to build…
Mar-Apr University Affairs PDF FEATURES A job half doneIt’s been five years since the Naylor report was released, and some say there’s been too little progress toward supporting Canadian research in fundamental science. Housing wantedUniversities are exploring ways to build more student accommodations of all kinds amid a worsening national crisis. Check your bias at…
A call to stop the collective and damaging madness where we may publish more, but are falling more behind. BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | FEB 14 2022 Australia’s national health research funder has acted to restrict assessment of each applicant to its marque research competitions to only 10 publications from the last decade….
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The Rise of Preprint: How COVID-19 has transformed the way we publish and report on scientific research.
May 10th, 2022Peer review, despite its flaws, is one of the most important pillars of the scientific process. So preprint servers, which make scientific papers that have yet to be reviewed or published available online, have been slow to catch on in many fields. But then came the pandemic. “COVID changed everything,” says Jim Handman, executive director…