by Caroline Winter | 22 October 2021 | Community News, French, Observations, Observations and Responses
La 14e Semaine internationale du libre accès se déroule du 25 au 31 octobre 2021 et le thème de cette année est « L’importance de notre façon d’ouvrir la connaissance : construisons l’équité structurelle ». Ce thème a été choisi pour s’aligner sur la recommandation de l’UNESCO sur la science ouverte (voir « La Recommandation de l’UNESCO sur la science ouverte »), qui met en avant l’importance de l’équité dans l’avancement d’érudition qui est ouvert par défaut (Fandel 2021).
by Caroline Winter | 22 October 2021 | Community News, English, Observations, Observations and Responses
The 14th annual International Open Access Week runs from October 25–31, 2021, and this year’s theme is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” This theme was chosen to align with the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (see “UNESCO’s Recommendation on Open Science”), which “powerfully articulates and centers the importance of equity in pursuing a future for scholarship that is open by default” (Fandel 2021).
by Caroline Winter | 20 July 2021 | Community News, French, Observations and Responses
Cette déclaration a été publiée par l’International Science Council le 1 juillet 2021.
La science ouverte et l’initiative de l’UNESCO
La recherche scientifique a longtemps été une entreprise auto-organisée. Les gouvernements, les bailleurs de fonds et les universités peuvent tous, de temps à autre, avoir prescrit des priorités pour l’enquête scientifique, mais les scientifiques eux-mêmes ont largement déterminé la manière dont les enquêtes devraient être menées.
by Caroline Winter | 16 July 2021 | Community News, English, Observations and Responses
Open Science and the UNESCO Initiative. Scientific inquiry has long been a self-organized enterprise. Governments, funders and universities may all, from time to time, have prescribed priorities for scientific inquiry, but scientists themselves have largely determined how inquiries should be conducted. In the process they have created and stewarded their own organizations: learned societies, academies, and centres within the generally flexible framework of their universities.
by Caroline Winter | 11 September 2020 | Community News, English, Observations and Responses
This article explores the background and process that led to the merger of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche and Canadiana.org in 2018. Seizing a moment of opportunity in a rapidly shifting digital research landscape, the two organizations “spun in” to each other in order to leverage their complementary mandates and overlapping memberships. The new merged organization is now better positioned to meet the challenges of collaborative work in research and Canadian heritage content acquisition and access.
by Caroline Winter | 29 May 2020 | Community News, English, Observations and Responses
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.
