Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is Canada's largest publisher of international scientific journals. It started in 1929 as the NRC Research Press, part of the National Research Council (NRC). In 2010, the organization spun off from NRC and was incorporated as a not-for-profit.
As of 2018,[update] CSP has published about 2,300 articles annually in 24 journals distributed to over 125 countries.[1] CSP has 50 staff members, and, according to the website Owler, its annual revenue is about US$3.7M.[2] All of CSP's journals are produced and delivered in both HTML and PDF formats, is connected to scientific literature, included in all major indexes, and archived through both CLOCKSS and Portico.[1]
CSP has an OpenArticle program, which permits authors and/or research funding agencies to sponsor online open access of their article. It also has auto-deposit of accepted manuscripts into the University of TorontoTSpace, a free and secure research repository; and an adoption of a Creative Commons CC BY.[1]
CSP publishes three interdisciplinary open access journals: Arctic Science, a journal that focuses on research about northern polar regions; FACETS, Canada’s first open access multidisciplinary science journal;, and Anthropocene Coasts.
CSP also provides the CSP blog, which includes plain language summaries of featured research. FACETS also publishes plain language summaries.
Canadian Science Publishing is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact,[3][4][5] and has taken steps to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the publishing industry. These include recognizing the lack of indigenous peoples in peer review and publishing processes. CSP has taken steps to encourage co-production of knowledge in its journal Arctic Science. Co-editor-in-chief Lisa Loseto acknowledges that new processes may be needed to support indigenous participation in science.[6]
Environmental Reviews: presents authoritative literature reviews on environmental science and associated environmental studies topics, with emphasis on the effects on and response of both natural and manmade ecosystems to anthropogenic stress.
FACETS: Canada’s first multidisciplinary open access science journal[8]
