Access Copyright c. Université York

2024-04-11 21:08:03 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/1VT4-KP36

Quelles seront les répercussions de la récente décision de la Cour fédérale dans le procès Access Copyright c. L’Université York sur l’utilisation équitable au Canada?

Access Copyright v. York University

2024-04-11 21:07:43 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/E34Y-H157

How does the recent Federal Court ruling in Access Copyright v. York University affect fair dealing in Canada?

Adhésion des FRQ à la cOAlition S : Quelles sont les conséquences possibles pour les revues québécoises?

2024-04-11 18:42:18 | Contributor(s): Simon van Bellen | https://doi.org/10.25547/NF2M-P821

Le 1er juin 2021, les Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) ont annoncé leur adhésion à la cOAlition S, faisant d’eux la première organisation publique en Amérique du Nord à appliquer les principes du Plan S, entrant en vigueur en mars 2023. Initiative ambitieuse lancée en 2018 par un regroupement...

Altmetrics for Research Evaluation

2024-04-11 18:37:03 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/FE3W-AG83

In recent years, there have been numerous calls to change research evaluation policies to rely less on journal-level citation metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), including two key international initiatives. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), developed at the...

An Action Plan for Advancing Diamond Open Access

2024-04-11 18:24:01 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/GXSS-T393

In March 2022, Science Europe, cOAlition S, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities (OPERAS), and the French National Research Agency announced the release of an Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (Ancion et al. 2022). This Action Plan...

Appel de Jussieu pour la Science ouverte et la bibliodiversité

2024-04-11 21:03:20 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/H2W6-SS72

L’Appel de Jussieu pour la science ouverte et le bibliodiversité a été signé par des douzaines d’institutions recherche, organismes professionnels de l’information scientifique et technique, éditions scientifiques et sociétés savantes

Canada Celebrates International Open Access Week 2018

2024-04-11 20:53:35 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/6PXB-P126

October 22 to 28, 2018, marked the 10th annual International Open Access (OA) Week. Founded in 2008 by SPARC and its partners, Open Access Week is now recognized around the world as an opportunity to start conversations about OA, plan collective action, and build a presence of OA in the scholarly...

Canada’s Fundamental Science Review

2024-04-11 21:08:17 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/40YR-2Q18

Naylor Report calls for “substantial improvements in governance, oversight, and advice” of federal funding for extramural research.

Canada’s National Heritage Digitization Strategy

2024-04-11 18:47:20 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter, Jesse Thomas-Kern | https://doi.org/10.25547/CN1E-3J49

The National Heritage Digitisation Strategy (NHDS) is part of a long history of digitizing cultural heritage materials that has been ongoing in the Canadian scholarly and heritage communities since at least the 1960s, moving in step with developments in digital technologies, including the world...

Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science

2024-04-11 19:55:03 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/X5G5-D734

In February 2020, the Government of Canada released the Roadmap for Open Science, a set of principles and recommendations to guide federal scientific research in Canada.

CARL Announces Release of its Institutional Open Access Policy Template and Accompanying Toolkit

2024-04-11 20:22:54 | Contributor(s): Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) | https://doi.org/10.25547/Q2ND-EZ22

On May 14, 2020 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries announced the release of its Institutional Open Access Policy Template for Canadian institutions, which is accompanied by a toolkit to help prepare those wishing to develop such a policy on their campus.

CARL Scholarly Communications Roadmap

2024-04-11 21:06:58 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/SXQG-1K66

CARL Roadmap lays out plan for open, sustainable, effective scholarly communication.

CARL’s Advancing Open Event and Report

2024-04-11 20:00:51 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/R411-4357

On May 6 and 7, 2019, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL–ABRC) hosted Advancing Open, an unconference-style gathering for Canadian scholarly communication practitioners to discuss ways to advance open scholarship in Canada.

Changer le rythme : De l’interopérabilité à l’adaptabilité

2024-04-11 18:41:23 | Contributor(s): Deb Verhoeven | https://doi.org/10.25547/YABN-JX34

Les données, c’est bien connu, veulent juste être libres. Mais on pourrait aussi dire que les données veulent juste danser. Les données numériques sont particulièrement sociales au cœur. Sa forme binaire lui permet de se mêler facilement à d’autres données numériques. Les technologies de lecture...

Changing the Beat: From Interoperability to Adaptability

2024-04-11 18:41:00 | Contributor(s): Deb Verhoeven | https://doi.org/10.25547/RTRX-ET91

Data, famously, just wants to be free. But it might also be said that data just wants to dance. Digital data is notably social at heart. Its binary form enables it to mingle easily with other digital data. Machine reading technologies mean that data can communicate directly with other data,...

Coalition Publi.ca crée un comité consultatif composé de intervenants du milieu universitaire

2024-04-11 20:55:33 | Contributor(s): Public Knowledge Project (PKP) | https://doi.org/10.25547/SCJS-3546

Créée au printemps 2017, Coalition Publi.ca a pour mission d’établir une infrastructure dédiée à la production et à la diffusion numérique des résultats de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) au Canada. Le projet est désormais encadré par un comité consultatif composé de...

Coalition Publi.ca Establishes Advisory Committee of Academic Stakeholders

2024-04-11 20:55:14 | Contributor(s): Public Knowledge Project (PKP) | https://doi.org/10.25547/DDJG-2N07

Created in the spring of 2017, Coalition Publi.ca aims to establish an infrastructure dedicated to the digital production and dissemination of research results in the Canadian humanities and social sciences (HSS). The project is now guided by an advisory committee with representatives from...

Comment le budget fédéral de 2018 affecte la recherche au Canada

2024-04-11 20:57:07 | Contributor(s): Kimberly Silk | https://doi.org/10.25547/YMCY-DP18

Le budget fédéral de 2018, publié le 27 février 2018, profitera grandement à la recherche au Canada. Le budget comprend un financement de 925 millions de dollars sur cinq ans accordés aux organismes des trois conseils: Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC), Conseil de recherches en...

Communiqué de presse : la feuille de route pour la science ouverte

2024-04-11 20:38:14 | Contributor(s): Science and Economic Development Canada Innovation | https://doi.org/10.25547/R5X8-RW71

Chaque jour, les chercheurs canadiens proposent de nouvelles idées susceptibles de nous permettre de relever certains des plus grands défis auxquels nous sommes confrontés aujourd’hui. En partageant ces innovations et en y participant librement, nous pouvons veiller à ce que la communauté de...

Compliance with Open Access Policy in Canada

2024-04-11 20:53:19 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/5J03-GJ56

The announcement of Plan S in September 2018 brought the issue of implementation to the forefront of discussions of open access (OA). One issue addressed in the Plan and in a number of responses to it is that of compliance: many funding bodies in North America and Europe have OA mandates, but to...