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 | 25 June 2021 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
In March 2021, The University of California (UC) announced a “breakthrough” open access (OA) agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher (2021). Under the agreement, all articles with a lead author based at UC will be OA upon publication, and researchers at UC will have access to read articles in Elsevier journals.
by Caroline Winter | 25 June 2021 | French, Observations, Observations and Responses
En mars 2021, l’University of California a annoncé un accord de libre accès révolutionnaire avec Elsevier, le plus grand éditeur scientifique au monde (2021). En vertu de l’accord, tous les articles avec un auteur principal basé à l’UC seront en libre accès dès leur publication, et les chercheurs de l’UC auront accès à la lecture d’articles dans les revues Elsevier.
by Caroline Winter | 21 May 2021 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
In March 2021, the Government of Canada announced the release of the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy (RDM Policy). A draft of this policy for consultation was released in May 2018 (see “Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy”).
by Caroline Winter | 21 May 2021 | French, Observations, Observations and Responses
En mars 2021, le gouvernement du Canada a annoncé la publication de la Politique des trois organismes sur la gestion des données de recherche (Politique de GDR). Une ébauche de cette politique pour consultation a été publiée en mai 2018 (voir « Le Politique des trois organismes sur la gestion des données de recherche »).
by Caroline Winter | 19 March 2021 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
As the international open access (OA) movement gains momentum, the question of how to make the shift to OA for monographs is becoming more pressing and, in recent years, efforts to determine a sustainable model for publishing OA monographs have increased.
