Highlights from Budget 2019 (Librarianship.ca, March 19)
The website Librarianship.ca has extracted sections from the 2019 budget that it sees as relevant to the Canadian library and information management community. Read more
@LibrarianshipCA 

CC Search: A New Vision, Strategy & Roadmap for 2019 (J. Park, Creative Commons, March 19)
Park describes a new approach being adopted by Creative Commons that would expand on its “ultimate goal of providing access to all 1.4 billion CC licensed and public domain works on the web” to include not only access but reuse as well. Read more
@CreativeCommons 

How Canadian Copyright Reform Could Support the Government’s Supercluster Investment (M. Geist, March 20)
In his new CIGI policy brief, Geist argues that "there is a link between innovation policy and copyright reform; four reforms, in particular, are both long-overdue and closely-linked to the government’s supercluster approach." These include a text-and-data mining exception – sometimes referred to as an information analysis exception – to support artificial intelligence (AI), flexible fair dealing in support of digital technologies and advanced manufacturing, open government data and the elimination of crown copyright in connection with the ocean supercluster, and the easing of digital lock restrictions that place Canadian agriculture and the protein innovation supercluster at a competitive disadvantage." Read more
@mgeist

Analyse juridique du libre accès (O. Charbonneau, Découvrir, 13 mars)
Charbonneau résume sa présentation sur « les enjeux reliés au droit d’auteur et, plus spécifiquement, aux contrats d’édition, » proposant que « Sur le plan juridique donc, le libre accès impose une redéfinition des relations contractuelles régissant les relations entre les objets et les sujets de droit. » Lire la suite
@culturelibre

Open Access Task Force Releases Draft Recommendations (MIT News, March 18)
"The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research has released a set of draft recommendations that aim to support and increase the open sharing of MIT publications, data, software, and educational materials. They are available for public comment until April 17." Read more
@MIT @mitlibraries

New Article (Preprint): Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A Systematic Comparison of Citations in 252 Subject Categories (A. Martín-Martín, E. Orduna-Malea, M. Thelwall, & E. Delgado López-Cózar, in arxiv.org)
"Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no recent or systematic evidence about the differences between them. In response, this paper investigates 2,448,055 citations to 2,299 English-language highly-cited documents from 252 GS subject categories published in 2006, comparing GS, the WoS Core Collection, and Scopus."  Read more
@socarxiv 

Isn’t Leakage Good for Libraries? (R. C. Schonfeld, Scholarly Kitchen, March 21)
"In recent weeks, I have argued that content leakage is reducing the value of the subscription big deal. The syndication model might enable publishers to recapture much of this leakage, a model that Springer Nature has begun to pilot with ResearchGate, indicative of the strategic dilemmas that syndication poses. For libraries, syndication offers the opportunity to provide dramatically improved experiences for their users — with a number of risks as well, including the prospect of substantially reducing their leverage at the negotiating table."  Read more
@rschon @scholarlykitchn

Job Posting: Head, XWI7XWA Library (UBC)
UBC Library seeks a full-time, ongoing General Librarian position with 5 year renewable Head term. "The Xwi7xwa Library is located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ -speaking Musqueam people. It is adjacent to the UBC’s First Nations House of Learning, (FNHL) and is the only separate library dedicated to Indigenous collections and services at an academic institution in Canada." Application deadline: April 21. More information
@Xwi7xwaLibrary  @ubclibrary

Call for Nominations: CALJ’s SRC Scholarly and Research Communication Awards
CALJ’s SRC Innovation Awards provide recognition and “encourage Canadian journals to engage in innovation with an eye on enhancing impact.” Nomination deadline: April 30. More information
@caljacrs

OASPA Webinar: Implementing a Consortial Funding Model for Open Access Publishing -- April 4, 10.30am EST
“The OASPA Open Scholarship Webinar Series is delighted to welcome three pioneers of the Consortial Funding Model of Publishing: Oya Y. Rieger (arXiv Program Director), John Willinsky (Director of the Public Knowledge Project) and Martin Paul Eve (Co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities). Come and find out how to set one up with your publishing (or scholarly communication) initiative.” More information
@OASPA

ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence 2019–2020 Call for Applications
"ARL is accepting applications for the 2019–2020 Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence, a program that introduces undergraduates from historically underrepresented ethnic and racial groups to the library and information science discipline." Must be enrolled at an institution whose library is an ARL member. Deadline April 26. More information
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