Week 2 (13-17 Jan.)
CANCELLED due to scheduling issues, etc.
Week 3 (20-24 Jan.)
"Guidelines for Writing Scientific Papers"
"A recipe for good peer review"
"Does a digital workflow make it easier to detect ethical breeches in peer review?"
"Should authors be told who their reviewers are?"
"Fifty Shades of Grey in Scientific Publishing"
"How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress"
"How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science"
"Open Access MegaJournals – Have They Changed Everything?"
"Expert Failure: Re-evaluating Research Assessment"
"I’m joining the editorial board of Axios Review. Here’s why"
"Essence of academic publishing"
Week 4 (27-31 Jan.)
"The missing piece to changing the university culture"
"Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide..."
"Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position"
"How To Choose The Right Graduate School Program"
"The Humanities Ph.D. at Work"
"The Sweet Spot of a Nonacademic Job Search"
"From Ph.D. to Self-Employed Consultant"
"Turning 'Plan B' Into a 'Plan A' Life"
"Non-academic careers for postgraduates"
"Coming out of the closet, tenure denial edition"
Week 5 (3-7 Feb.)
"Draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy"
"Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact"
"Open access: The true cost of science publishing"
"The pros and cons of Open Access"
"A brief guide to the open access rainbow"
"Open access: six myths to put to rest"
Week 6 (10-14 Feb.)
"Predatory publishers are corrupting open access"
"Scholarly Publishing Free for All"
"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" (the "sting")
SEMESTER BREAK
Week 7 (24-28 Feb.) – UNBC Annual Graduate Conference
Week 8 (3-7 March)
"Scientific Publications: Moving Beyond Quality and Quantity toward Influence"
"Comparing the influence of ecology journals..."
"Research Summary: Journal Impact Metrics"
"Impact Factor and the Future of Medical Journals"
Week 9 (10-14 March)
"Guidebook For New Principal Investigators"
"How to get, and keep, an NSERC research grant"
Week 10 (17-21 March)
"The rise of biological preprints"
"Geneticists eye the potential of arXiv"
"The Case for Open Preprints in Biology"
Week 11 (24-28 March)
"The Social Biology Professor"
"An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists"
Social media as a "professional issue"
"This attempt to create an inclusive professional blog"
Blogging resources linked from Science Borealis
Week 12 (31 March - 4 April)
Course wrap up (covering any loose-end topics, etc.)