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The EU’s Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
On March 26, 2019, the European Parliament adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, legislation intended to update copyright laws for the digital age across the European Union. The Directive was approved by the Council of the European Union and came into effect on June 7, 2019. Member States now have two years to write the Directive into national law.
Déclaration électorale commune du CAUL-AOASG
Le 14 mai 2019, le Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) et l’Australian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) ont publié une déclaration commune en prévision des élections fédérales australiennes, intitulée « Developing a Strategic Approach to Open Scholarship in Australia ».
Joint CAUL-AOASG Election Statement
On May 14, 2019, the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) issued a joint statement in advance of the Australian federal election, “Developing a Strategic Approach to Open Scholarship in Australia.”
Le Projet « Review, Promotion, and Tenure » à ScholCommLab
Les directives en examen du rendement, de promotion et de titularisation ont été critiqués par certains comme des obstacles institutionnels qui ralentissent la transition vers science ouverte (voir Le film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship et Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management. Le Project « Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) » analyse les documents liés provenant d’universités américaines et canadiennes afin de déterminer comment la publication en libre accès et à l’abonnement sont encouragés et en quoi l’incitation influe sur la science ouverte.
The Review, Promotion, and Tenure Project at the ScholCommLab
Review, promotion, and tenure guidelines have been criticized by some as impediments to a transition to open scholarship (see The Film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship and Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management). The Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Project analyzes RPT documents from universities in the US and Canada in order to determine how publishing in Open Access (OA) and closed-access venues are incentivized and how this incentivization affects open scholarship.
Open Education in British Columbia
On April 17, 2019, the Government of British Columbia announced a $3.26 million investment in Open Educational Resources (OER) through BCcampus. The funding was announced at the Cascadia Open Education Summit held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre Campus. BCcampus is a provincially funded agency with a mandate to “provide teaching, learning, educational technology, and open education support to the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia” (“Our Mandate” n.d.).
L’éducation ouverte en Colombie Britannique
Le 17 avril 2019, le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique a annoncé un investissement de 3,26 millions de dollars dans les ressources éducatives libres (REL) par l’intermédiaire de BCcampus. Le financement a été annoncé lors du Cascadia Open Education Summit tenu au Harbour Campus Centre de l’Université Simon Fraser. BCcampus est un organisme financé par la province dont le mandat est de un mandat visant à soutenir l’éducation postsecondaire ouverte, y compris l’apprentissage, l’enseignement et la technologie éducative, en Colombie-Britannique (« Our Mandate » s.d.).
Open Education Week 2019
Open Education Week celebrates and raises awareness of the global Open Education (OE) movement. It was founded in 2013 by the Open Education Consortium, a nonprofit organization that supports a global network of OE advocates.