“Spinning In”: The Merger of Canadiana.org with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche

2024-04-11 20:09:21 | Contributor(s): Jonathan Bengtson, Carol Shepstone | https://doi.org/10.25547/DK2V-VG09

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...

“Who owns our knowledge?”: Control, Creation, Recognition, and Access

2025-10-15 19:26:20 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.25547/DC77-E576

International Open Access Week 2025 (October 20-26) asks a critical question: “Who owns our knowledge?” This year’s theme challenges the scholarly community to examine not only who has access to research, but also how...

Access Copyright c. Université York

2024-04-11 21:08:03 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/1VT4-KP36

Quelles seront les répercussions de la récente décision de la Cour fédérale dans le procès Access Copyright c. L’Université York sur l’utilisation équitable au Canada?

Access Copyright v. York University

2024-04-11 21:07:43 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/E34Y-H157

How does the recent Federal Court ruling in Access Copyright v. York University affect fair dealing in Canada?

Adhésion des FRQ à la cOAlition S : Quelles sont les conséquences possibles pour les revues québécoises?

2024-04-11 18:42:18 | Contributor(s): Simon van Bellen | https://doi.org/10.25547/NF2M-P821

Le 1er juin 2021, les Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) ont annoncé leur adhésion à la cOAlition S, faisant d’eux la première organisation publique en Amérique du Nord à appliquer les principes du Plan S, entrant en vigueur en mars 2023. Initiative ambitieuse lancée en 2018 par un regroupement...

AI in Peer Review: A Targeted Research Scan

2026-07-16 18:25:30 | Contributor(s): Kyle Dase, Alan Colin-Arce, Faraz Forghan Parast, Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/ZSTN-3Q98

This research scan is the first part of a series that will examine how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are impacting scholarly communication. This post surveys the current discourse surrounding GenAI’s place within the peer review process. Primary...

AI Safety, Cybersecurity, and Open Scholarship

2025-09-16 17:31:15 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.25547/PQG3-NT40

This insights and signals report discusses the Foresight on AI report recently released by Policy Horizons Canada, as well as reports from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the National Cyber Threat...

Altmetrics for Research Evaluation

2024-04-11 18:37:03 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/FE3W-AG83

In recent years, there have been numerous calls to change research evaluation policies to rely less on journal-level citation metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), including two key international initiatives. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), developed at the...

An Action Plan for Advancing Diamond Open Access

2024-04-11 18:24:01 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/GXSS-T393

In March 2022, Science Europe, cOAlition S, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities (OPERAS), and the French National Research Agency announced the release of an Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (Ancion et al. 2022). This Action Plan...

Appel de Jussieu pour la Science ouverte et la bibliodiversité

2024-04-11 21:03:20 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/H2W6-SS72

L’Appel de Jussieu pour la science ouverte et le bibliodiversité a été signé par des douzaines d’institutions recherche, organismes professionnels de l’information scientifique et technique, éditions scientifiques et sociétés savantes

Are Bots Re-Shaping Open Access?

2025-10-15 21:06:35 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.25547/4T9H-AX25

Modern AI training bots are overwhelming open access repositories worldwide, potentially forcing institutions to choose between protecting their infrastructure and maintaining open principles. This insights and signals report offers a brief introduction to ‘bots,’ some of the...

Bilingualism and Scholarly Publishing in Canada

2026-01-21 19:16:40 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell, Alan Colin-Arce | https://doi.org/10.25547/SYV2-GM22

This report examines some of the challenges facing French-language scholarly publishing in Canada, despite the country’s official bilingual status since 1969. Key takeaways include the federal government’s significant investment ($4.1 billion Action...

Canada Celebrates International Open Access Week 2018

2024-04-11 20:53:35 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/6PXB-P126

October 22 to 28, 2018, marked the 10th annual International Open Access (OA) Week. Founded in 2008 by SPARC and its partners, Open Access Week is now recognized around the world as an opportunity to start conversations about OA, plan collective action, and build a presence of OA in the scholarly...

Canada’s Fundamental Science Review

2024-04-11 21:08:17 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/40YR-2Q18

Naylor Report calls for “substantial improvements in governance, oversight, and advice” of federal funding for extramural research.

Canada’s National Heritage Digitization Strategy

2024-04-11 18:47:20 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter, Jesse Thomas-Kern | https://doi.org/10.25547/CN1E-3J49

The National Heritage Digitisation Strategy (NHDS) is part of a long history of digitizing cultural heritage materials that has been ongoing in the Canadian scholarly and heritage communities since at least the 1960s, moving in step with developments in digital technologies, including the world...

Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science

2024-04-11 19:55:03 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/X5G5-D734

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.

Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science, Six Years On

2026-02-25 19:07:55 | Contributor(s): Thomas Sherriff, Brittany Amell, Alan Colin-Arce | https://doi.org/10.25547/H4RE-XY65

This piece revisits Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science...

CARL Announces Release of its Institutional Open Access Policy Template and Accompanying Toolkit

2024-04-11 20:22:54 | Contributor(s): Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) | https://doi.org/10.25547/Q2ND-EZ22

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.

CARL Scholarly Communications Roadmap

2024-04-11 21:06:58 | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/SXQG-1K66

CARL Roadmap lays out plan for open, sustainable, effective scholarly communication.

CARL’s Advancing Open Event and Report

2024-04-11 20:00:51 | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/R411-4357

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.