Carol Muñoz Nieves is a researcher in the Scholarly Communications Lab and the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She currently studies the public dimensions of faculty’s work in the review, promotion and tenure (RPT) process in Canadian and American universities, and the inclusion of open access and other open science principles in RPT documents. She also conducts research on labour in software industries in Vancouver, digital rights and citizens’ data literacy in Latin America, and commodification of telecommunications in her home country, Cuba. She has worked as a lecturer, press analyst and journalist for organizations in Cuba and Canada.