Open annotation is the ability to freely contribute to online, usually web-based, content, such as documents, images and video. Open annotation as a concept has been embraced predominantly by scholars in the Digital Humanities, a group that has a long history of online collaboration.
The 2018 federal budget, released on February 27, 2018, significantly benefits research in Canada. The budget includes $925 million over five years in funding that is committed to the Tri-council agencies: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
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 sciences naturelles et en génie (CRSNG) et Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH).
Some European countries are trying to make progress, but unfortunately, the solution they advocate often revolves around agreements like the big deal, publish & read, read and publish, etc. These countries want the national license to include free circulation of articles published by national authors.
Certains pays européens tentent en effet de faire bouger les lignes. Malheureusement, la solution qu’ils préconisent tourne souvent autour des ententes de type OA big deal, publish&read, read&publish, etc. Ces pays visent que la licence nationale inclut une diffusion libre des articles publiés par les auteurs nationaux.
In Europe, where publisher negotiations are often done at the national rather than the institutional level, universities are pushing for scholarly journals to become open access, in part due to the E.U.’s mandate to make all scientific articles freely available by 2020.