RDM & Scholarly Communication News @ VIU Library

The [Digital Research Alliance of Canada] is inviting participants from diverse sectors to work together in an open and collaborative context to facilitate researcher use of cloud infrastructure. Whether commercial vendors, open-source developers or members of the Canadian digital research infrastructure (DRI) ecosystem, participants will work with community stakeholders to develop a single “pane of glass” or portal for seamless access to commercial and community cloud.

The ACCP is a pilot project that aims to build national cloud research capacity and deliver on the Alliance’s mandate to meet the increasing DRI resource demand from the Canadian research community. As a pilot project, users can opt in to use the cloud service that suits their needs – whether it is the Alliance’s community cloud solution or another provider’s solution…

… To ensure the final product is viable and of value, we will make a call to the researcher community to test the platform and provide feedback. The anticipated completion date of the pilot is March 2025; however, testing will be required throughout the building phase.

For more information, including project overview, submission guidelines, criteria for acceptance and more, read the Call for Participation: Researchers here.

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To apply, participants must complete the application form here.

More information:

https://www.alliancecan.ca/en/accp

Review of Canada’s Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (2015)

by Britt Amell | 14 June 2024

On July 4, 2023, the presidents of Canada’s three national research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced their plan to review the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (2015). A revised version of the policy is anticipated to be released in 2025…

The Tri-Agency Policy change will mark a significant step forward for open access, but a suite of other advances is necessary to ensure Canadian researchers and their institutions have the capacity and readiness to comply; new commitments must be implementable and sustainable to affect real change. This requires good faith from all corners of the Canadian research ecosystem – the funders, publishers, research administrators, libraries, and researchers – but it also requires shared responsibility and shared investment. Furthermore, for true viability, policy changes need to be accompanied by a cultural shift and a rethink of the research assessment process that has only just begun.

More info:

https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/tri-agency-review-open-access-2015-policy/

From Érudit's blog post:

While more than eighty journals are still in restricted access (their articles are only freely accessible 12 months after publication), it should be stressed that their transition to open access may take several years. Indeed, these journals need to carry out a detailed analysis of their situation in order to put in place a transition plan. Ultimately, greater accessibility will inevitably mean greater visibility for researchers’ work.

The growing number of journals that have opted for open access is undeniable proof of the importance of this model for the dissemination and circulation of knowledge. Granting agencies such as the federal Tri-agency and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ) also encourage this practice.

Discover the journals that flipped to open access [… more]

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