by Caroline Winter | 25 September 2020 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
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.
by Caroline Winter | 11 September 2020 | Community News, English, Observations and Responses
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.
by Caroline Winter | 3 July 2020 | French, Observations, Observations and Responses
Étant donné que la pandémie de COVID-19 a forcé les institutions de recherche du monde entier à fermer temporairement les campus et à passer au travail et à l’apprentissage en ligne, elle a également incité les chercheurs à rendre leurs recherches sur le COVID-19 ouvertement disponibles comme jamais auparavant.
by Caroline Winter | 3 July 2020 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced research institutions around the world to temporarily close campuses and transition to online working and learning, it has also prompted researchers to make their COVID-19 related research openly available as never before.
by Caroline Winter | 29 May 2020 | Community News, English, Observations and Responses
On May 14, 2020 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries announced the release of its Institutional Open Access Policy Template for Canadian institutions, which is accompanied by a toolkit to help prepare those wishing to develop such a policy on their campus.
