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PLOS and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network Announce Community Action Publishing Deal (PLOS, January 18)
PLOS has announced an agreement via CRKN whereby 19 CRKN member institutions will take part in PLOS’ Community Action Publishing (CAP) program, “a new collective action publishing model” which will allow researchers at these institutions to publish without paying the usual APCs in PLOS Medicine and PLOS BiologyRead more
@PLOSONE @CRKN_RCDR

Amazon.com and 'Big Five' Publishers Accused of Ebook Price-Fixing (S. Cain, The Guardian, January 15)
A new lawsuit in the US targets Amazon but lists five large publishers as “co-conspirators” and accuses them of keeping “ebook prices artificially high, by agreeing to price restraints that force consumers to pay more for ebooks purchased on retail platforms that are not Amazon.com.” Read more
@guardian

Science ouverte : Mir@bel va répertorier et diffuser les politiques de publication des revues scientifiques françaises (Mir@bel, 13 janvier)
Une nouvelle qui pourrait intéresser les établissements et départements francophones, le réseau Mir@bel (France) a annoncé que, grâce à un financement du Plan national pour la science ouverte, elle développera un outil semblable à Sherpa Romeo, en français, qui misera sur les politiques de libre accès des revues françaises. Reste à voir si les revues francophones canadiennes seront incluses. Lire la suite
@mirabel_revues

Focused on Author Choice & Research Quality, AAAS Announces new OA Policy (AAAS, January 15)
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the journal Science, has announced that it will allow authors whose research is funded by Coalition S funders to make their articles available under a Creative Commons licence as a way to comply with Plan S via deposit into repositories, “on a trial basis.” Read more
@aaas

Articles & Reports | Articles et rapports

Preprint: What Should Students Pay for University Course Readings? An Empirical, Economic, and Legal Analysis (J. Willinsky & C. Baron, January 12)
“In the context of the significant court battles that are being fought over the potential copyright infringement involved in distributing the articles and excerpts assigned to students in university courses, this study analyzes 3,391 course syllabuses (2015-2020) from nine provinces and 34 universities across Canada.” The researchers further propose a new pricing model for Access Copyright licences based on actual usage by students. Read more
@RedeSciELO

How Teamwork Busts the Three Biggest Myths about Library Advocacy (S. Wyber, OCLC Next Blog, January 12) 
Wyber describes the important advocacy work done by libraries in terms of the collaboration that happens across libraries and their networks and that depends on the interconnectedness of many contributions. Read more
@OCLC

Building Momentum to Realign Incentives to Support Open Science (H. Joseph, Data Intelligence 3(1), January 14)
In this vision paper, Joseph argues that “for Open Science to truly take root, researchers also must be fully incentivized and rewarded for its practice.” Joseph looks at the work of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and (NASEM) Roundtable on Aligning Research Incentives for Open Science. The paper “examines the strategy behind convening the Roundtable, its current participant makeup, focus, and outputs. It also explores how this approach might be expanded and adapted throughout the global open science community.” Read more
@hjoseph

COVID-19 Research and REALM (S. Streams, OCLC Hanging Together blog, January 19)
Streams, REALM project director for OCLC, reflects on the project to date, its history, scope, the importance of the scientific literature regarding SARS-CoV-2, the REALM findings, and next steps. Read more
@OCLC #REALMProject 

ACRL Learning Analytics Toolkit (ACRL, January 20)
This new tool from the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Committee “is a freely available professional development resource that library professionals can use to learn more about learning analytics and how they intersect with academic libraries. In addition to providing foundational knowledge about learning analytics, the Toolkit provides users with up-to-date publications about privacy and ethics, student success, potential outcomes, sources of data, and examples of libraries’ contributions to learning analytics.” Read more
@ALA_ACRL

Preprint: Metadata Analysis of Open Educational Resources (M. Tavakoli, M. Elias, G. Kismihók, S. Auer, January 19)
“This work uses the metadata of 8,887 OERs to perform an exploratory data analysis on OER metadata. Accordingly, this work proposes metadata-based scoring and prediction models to anticipate the quality of OERs. Based on the results, our analysis demonstrated that OER metadata and OER content qualities are closely related, as we could detect high-quality OERs with an accuracy of 94.6%.” Read more
@arxiv

New Report: Ebook Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Examining Preference, Management, and Purchasing Patterns (J. Novak, L. A. Ohler, & A. Day, Choice, January 21)
This report discusses the results of research led by Choice, “to shine a much-needed light on the ways academic libraries are responding to the increased demand for digital content [in light of the COVID pandemic]. Highlights include data showing that ebooks are an established part of academic library collections, many academic librarians’ overarching acquisition model favors ebooks over print and both libraries and patrons have fully integrated ebooks into their workflows and practices.” Read more
@Choice_Reviews

Guest Post — Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit (D. S. Katz & H. Murray, Scholarly Kitchen, January 21)
This article argues the benefits of being able to cite specific software used in one’s research when publishing research articles, and describes the efforts by the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group to define “a set of customizable guidelines to clearly identify the software and credit its developers and maintainers.” Read more
@scholarlykitchn

Announcements | Annonces

CWAC Webinar: Everything You Wanted to Know bout Archives Unleashed but Were Afraid to Ask -- January 26, 10 am PST / 1 pm EST
Webinaire de la CCAW : Ce que vous avez voulu savoir sur Archives Unleashed, mais que vous n’aviez jamais osé demander -- 26 janvier, 10h HP / 13h HE
As part of its ongoing Web Archives Webinar Series, the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) invites you to join us for a webinar with Ian Milligan and Samantha Fritz from the Archives Unleashed Project, based out of the University of Waterloo. // Dans le cadre de sa série de webinaires sur les archives web, la Coalition canadienne de l’archivage web (CCAW) vous convie à un webinaire avec Ian Milligan et Samantha Fritz du projet Archives Unleashed basé à l’Université de Waterloo. More information Détails
@unleasharchives @carlabrc

Portage Webinar – Introduction to FRDR -- February 3, 1 pm ET
Webinaire Portage – Introduction au DFDR -- 3 février, 13h HE
This webinar will provide a high-level overview of the FRDR Repository Service. Participants will learn about the data deposit process, including curation, metadata, preservation processing, and more. // Ce webinaire offrira un aperçu général du service de dépôt du DFDR. Les participants découvriront le processus de dépôt de données, notamment la curation, les métadonnées, le traitement en vue de la conservation, etc. More information Détails
@portageCARLABRC

Call for Proposals, CNI Spring ’21 -- March 15-26, 2021
"Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented during CNI’s Spring 2021 Membership Meeting." Submission deadline: February 12. More information
#cni21s @cni_org

CALJ Data Management Policy Webinar -- January 27, 12:30-1:30 pm ET
"The importance of proper data management and stewardship is top of mind for Canada’s funders, universities, and government departments, as is detailed in the Tri-Agency’s draft Research Data Management Policy [...] During this Webinar, you will hear from Matthew Lucas, Executive Director, Corporate Strategy and Performance of SSHRC, and Suzanne Kettley, CEO of Canadian Science Publishing, about their organizations’ policies on research data practices and availability." More information
@caljacrs

Call for Proposals: COPPUL Scholarly Communications SkillShare Event -- April 29, 10 am - 1 pm (MST)
"For this year’s virtual SkillShare, the group wants to hear from local librarians and library staff able to share recent scholarly communications hits and misses in their work, either through short presentations or on the SCWG blog." Submission deadline: February 10. More information
@COPPUL

Register Now: International Conference: Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem -- February 8-12, online
"The Conference aims to explore the new boundaries of Universal Bibliographic Control. Bibliographic control is radically changing because the bibliographic universe is radically changing: resources, actors, technologies, standards and practices. As a 'non-commercial public space' (IFLA Global Vision) - not only in a literal sense - libraries play a fundamental role also in the digital ecosystem." More information
#BC2021 

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