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.

Want to make online readings a little more engaging? Social annotation (SA) may offer one solution. SA tools allow students to highlight and comment on online course materials, sharing questions and ideas with each other as they read. When used effectively, they can help boost student motivation, reading comprehension, and more.

How did modern science communication begin? How has it evolved from one country to the next? What social, political, and economic forces inspired those changes? Published this week by ANU Press, Communicating Science: A Global Perspective explores all of these questions and more.

“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.”

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

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.

“It all started with a pang of jealousy,” says Asura Enkhbayar when asked what inspired him to start Open Science […]

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

Keynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin at the first United Nations Open Science Conference on November 19, 2019, organized by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ( SPARC ). Good morning. It is a true honour to be here and have an opportunity to share with you my thoughts on policies and incentives for open science.

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