We welcome the opportunity to submit a response to the Investing in Canada’s Future report. We were glad of the government and advisory panel’s outreach in the year leading up to the report, and the opportunities to respond through organizations such as the Federation and Social Sciences and Humanities and others in the months that followed the report’s publication.
ORCID is a non-profit organization which provides a persistent identifier that distinguishes individual researchers within the global research ecosystem. Researchers register for a free, unique ORCID identifier through the ORCID.org web site, and then add their professional information; publications can be added manually, or automatically harvested from other systems such as Scopus, ResearcherID and LinkedIn.
The Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management was jointly released by Canada’s three major federal funding agencies – the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – in 2016. The statement of principles lays the groundwork for research data management mandates that are expected to come into effect in 2018. Canadian funders are following a larger global trend towards improving research data management. The Research Councils UK published their Common Principles on Data Policy in 2011. The US National Science Foundation has required all applicants to submit Data Management Plans since 2011.
In December 2017, Clare Appavoo, Executive Director of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) agreed to talk with Sarah Milligan about the Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE), a project envisioned “as a means to advance integration within the academic library community in Canada by understanding the complexity of the digital landscape and by seeking opportunities facilitate alignment of key stakeholders and providers” (“Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) Project”, n.p.).
L’équipe de la plateforme Érudit et les membres du Public Knowledge Project veulent signifier, par la présente, leur appui formel et enthousiaste à l’Appel de Jussieu pour la science ouverte et la bibliodiversité. Les deux organismes, qui développent depuis 2017 une infrastructure de recherche ouverte et interopérable (projet CO-SHS) ainsi qu’un modèle de financement pérenne du libre accès basé sur des partenariats avec les bibliothèques de recherche (Partenariat pour le libre accès, Coalition Publi.ca), croient qu’il est urgent de redéfinir les rapports de forces dans le milieu de la publication savante pour une circulation libre des savoirs.