Observations & Responses
Observations are descriptive overviews of policies that are shaping open scholarship in Canada and beyond. They aim to provide an overview of both 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.
Plan S Update: Rights Retention Strategy
In July 2020, cOAlition S released its Rights Retention Strategy (RRS). With this strategy, funding organizations will mandate that researchers apply a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence to their research before it is submitted for publication (cOAlition S 2020a). This will allow researchers to retain the intellectual rights necessary for sharing Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) or Versions of Record (VORs) in an OA repository upon publication, even when publishing in a subscription or hybrid journal (see Rooryck 2020).
Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science
In February 2020, the Government of Canada released the Roadmap for Open Science, a set of principles and recommendations to guide federal scientific research in Canada.
Feuille de route pour la science ouverte du Canada
En février 2020, le gouvernement du Canada a publié la Feuille de route pour la science ouverte, un ensemble de principes et de recommandations pour guider la recherche scientifique fédérale au Canada.
CARL’s Advancing Open Event and Report
On May 6 and 7, 2019, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL–ABRC) hosted Advancing Open, an unconference-style gathering for Canadian scholarly communication practitioners to discuss ways to advance open scholarship in Canada.
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.
