Observations & Responses
Observations are descriptive overviews of policies that are shaping open scholarship in Canada and beyond. They aim to provide an overview of the policies’ impact and the responses of the academic and non-academic communities. We cover a range of topics, including both recent and touchstone policies. Suggest a topic you’d like to see us cover.
Responses are written by INKE Partnership Members and are critical engagements with policies from the unique perspectives of individual Partnership Members, who represent researchers, librarians and stakeholders at the forefront of digital scholarship in Canada and beyond.
L’atelier et rapport Advancing Open d’ABRC
Les 6 et 7 mai 2019, l’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de recherche (ABRC–CARL) a organisé Advancing Open, un atelier de style non-conférence pour les praticiens canadiens de la communication savante afin de discuter des moyens de faire progresser la science ouvertes au Canada.
Le « Persistent Identifier (PID) Consortium » de Royaume-Uni
Dans un article pour The Scholarly Kitchen en juin 2020, Alice Meadows soutient que maintenant, alors que la pandémie COVID-19 a conduit à des niveaux sans précédent d’ouverture et de collaboration entre les chercheurs du monde entier, la construction d’une infrastructure de recherche solide et stable est plus importante que jamais (Meadows 2020; voir aussi « Science Ouverte et COVID-19 »).
The UK Persistent Identifier (PID) Consortium
In a post for The Scholarly Kitchen in June 2020, Alice Meadows argues that now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of openness and collaboration among researchers around the world, building a strong and stable research infrastructure is more important than ever. Meadows announces that, as part of its efforts to support and expand open access (OA) in the UK, Jisc is working to establish a UK Persistent Identifier (PID) Consortium.
“Spinning In”: The Merger of Canadiana.org with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche
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.
UNESCO’s Recommendation on Open Science
At the UNESCO General Conference in fall 2019, the organization was tasked with developing a Recommendation on Open Science. UNESCO describes open science as comprising open access, open data, and being “open to society” (UNESCO n.d. p. 2). It notes, however, that although the Open Science movement is gaining worldwide momentum, there is to date no consensus about how to define open science or its goals.
La Recommandation de l’UNESCO sur la science ouverte
Lors de la Conférence générale de l’UNESCO à l’automne 2019, l’organisation a été chargée d’élaborer une Recommandation sur la science ouverte. L’UNESCO décrit la science ouverte comme comprenant le libre accès, les données ouvertes et « ouverture vers la société » (UNESCO s.d. p. 2). Il note, cependant, que bien que le mouvement de la science ouverte gagne du terrain dans le monde entier, il n’y a à ce jour aucun consensus sur la manière de définir la science ouverte ou ses objectifs.
Partner Response to CRKN-RCDR 2019–2024 Strategic Plan
At CRKN, we are now well into the first year of our 2019-2024 Strategic Plan, launched in October 2019 at our annual Conference. It has been an exciting and fruitful first year, and we are looking forward to continuing to enact our strategic goals in collaboration with our members and stakeholders.
Réponse des partenaires au plan stratégique 2019-2024 du CRKN–RCDR
Au RCDR, nous sommes maintenant bien entrés dans la première année de notre plan stratégique 2019–2024, lancé en octobre 2019 lors de notre conférence annuelle. Ce fut une première année passionnante et fructueuse, et nous sommes impatients de continuer à mettre en œuvre nos objectifs stratégiques en collaboration avec nos membres et nos parties prenantes.
Mind the Gap et POP!: En conversation avec John Maxwell
En août 2019, John Maxwell et une équipe d’auteurs de le Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing (CISP) à l’Université Simon Fraser (SFU) ont publié un rapport intitulé Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms. Complétant le recensement 2019 d’Educopia Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape publié en juin 2019, le rapport répertorie les logiciels de publication libre et le système d’infrastructure communautaire auquel il appartient (Maxwell et al. 2019, p. 1-2).
Mind the Gap and POP!: In Conversation with John Maxwell
In August 2019, John Maxwell and a team of authors with the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University (SFU) published a report called Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms (2019). Complementing Educopia’s Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape 2019 Census released in June 2019, the report inventories open source publishing software and the system of community infrastructure to which it belongs (Maxwell et al. 2019, p. 1–2).