http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/new-e.html Produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the E-lert is a weekly alerting service. Coverage is principally: research, innovation, scholarly publishing, scholarly communication, scholarly journals, electronic journals, copyright and access to published government information. en-us carl-abrc.ca http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert367-e.html Some of this week's items: Digital media spotlight shines on Stratford; US Canada Partnership Expands Ocean Research; European Parliament slams digital copyright treaty; Budget deep freeze will lead to end of climate research lab http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert366-e.html Some of this week's items: Clement on Copyright: A Made-in-Canada Approach; Select press coverage of what’s in Budget 2010 for research; Library Copyright Alliance Releases Diagram Charting Many Ways Forward For Google Books Settlement; Blue Ribbon Task Force Issues Final Report on Economics of Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert365-e.html Some of this week's items: Open Access Fund established at Simon Fraser University; In a digital world, why is our visual history being lost?; Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement; Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert364-e.html Some of this week's items: Action needed to recognize the value of intellectual property for Canada; Google book scanning: Cultural theft or freedom of information?; Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty; When Scholars Weigh Publication Options, Tradition Counts http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert363-e.html Some of this week's items: Copyright Board makes controversial schools ruling; Ulrich Werneburg appointed Project Manager at Canadiana.org; The Anatomy of a LargeScale Social Search Engine; E-Library Economics http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert362-e.html Some of this week's items: Lynda Gadoury appointed interim Directrice générale des bibliothèques, UQÀM ; A Tribute to Alan MacDonald; U.S. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing; Justice Dept. Criticizes Latest Google Book Deal http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert361-e.html Some of this week's items: The PC Officially Died Today:But will the iPad replace it?; Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education; CANARIE provides $300K in resources to build a secure, dedicated network for the Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Cyberinfrastructure and the Research Process in Canada http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert360-e.html Some of this week's items: ARL Supports Mandatory Public Access; AAP Offers Cautions, Warns of Piracy; Public access to federally funded research: SPARC comments; Comments of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Concerning “Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government”; Google Books opponents propose public alternative http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert359-e.html Some of this week's items: ALA, ACRL Say All Federal Agencies Should Follow Mandatory Public Access Policies; Report Finds Common Ground in Efforts to Balance Public Access, Scholarly Publishing; ARL Partners in Grant to Study Value of Academic Libraries; Programming skills could transform librarians' roles http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2010/elert358-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL Produces Data Management Awareness Toolkit; Authors lobby U.S. court to reject Google deal; NFB boss says Canada needs plan to compete, succeed in digital world; Technology gives the law a workout in 2009 http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert357-e.html Some of this week's items: Data-sharing culture has changed; eScience Librarians; IIPC Access Working Group Launches Web Archive Registry; French Consortium Is Out to Battle Google Over Book Scanning http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert356-e.html Some of this week's items: US government looks to expand scientific open access policy; Bill St. Arnaud Steps Down as Chief Research Officer of CANARIE; France to Digitize Its Own Literary Works; Copyright Owners Fight Plan to Release E-Books for the Blind http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert355-e.html Some of this week's items: Obama administration seeking OA for federally-funded research; University of Ottawa among North American leaders as it launches open access program; NEPTUNE Canada Ocean Observatory Goes Live; Web Giants Unite to Oppose UK Copyright Proposal http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert354-e.html Some of this week's items: 2008-2009 CARL Statistics available on the CARL website; Trust folds, puts Canuck film, music in peril; Canadian copyright law to trump ACTA, Clement says; The data revolution http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert353-e.html Some of this week's items: New England university presidents back bill for public access; Waterloo region receives big financial boost to lay groundwork for digital media corridor; Libraries Innovate to Counter Cuts: Tough times are taking a toll but spurring innovations in handling collections; Open science at web-scale: Optimizing participation and predictive potential http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert352-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL’s brief to the Canadian Copyright Consultation featured in Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy; The Canadian Association of Research Libraries Endorses New Strategic Plan; CARL Awards three Research in Librarianship Grants; Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert351-e.html Some of this week's items: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle Receives Special Recognition by CARL; Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results; Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest; Learning to share http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert350-e.html Some of this week's items: Canada in talks over copyright laws with bite; Toronto’s OpenTO data initiative off to quick start; Relationships and Soft Skills: The Core to Effective Library Leadership; Policy Briefing: Communications and Intellectual Property http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert349-e.html Some of this week's items: University of Calgary Becomes Newest Member of ARL; 27 October Declared World Day for Audiovisual Heritage; The Closing of an Open-Access Journal; Google's Eric Schmidt sets out the search engine's future http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert348-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) becomes a founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR); CARL Data Management Working Group and the Maxwell MacOdrum Library at Carleton University sponsoring a research data management workshop for librarians; Canadian regulator allows ISP traffic shaping; The Depot Open Access Repository Becomes International http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert347-e.html Some of this week's items: National Interactive Q and A with John Wilbanks on Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons; Juniper Networks and CANARIE Bolster Canada’s Ability to Conduct Big Science and Data-Driven Research; David Barnard appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network; Canadian Science Policy Conference http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert344-e.html Some of this week's items: Google Book Search Hearing to Be Postponed; PMC Canada: Making Canadian health research accessible to all; Striking the Balance: CFS Submission to the Copyright Consultations; Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR) http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert343-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL’s 2009 Copyright Consultation Submission; Copyright Head Tells House She Opposes Google Books Settlement; Google Said to Be Talking With Justice About Online Book Deal; A Compact for Open-Access Publication http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert342-e.html Some of this week's items: Institutional repositories toolkit available from the CARL office; Canada's portrait gallery is no more; 11th-Hour Filings Oppose Google’s Book Settlement; Special issue of Nature examines the cultural and technical hurdles of sharing research data that can get in the way of good intentions http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert341-e.html Some of this week's items: Amazon.com lashes out at Google's digital book settlement, contending it will drive up prices; Authors Guild Accuses Amazon of Hypocrisy in Google Filing; Students demand fair copyright and fair copyright consultations; Ottawa denies altering copyright submissions http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert340-e.html Some of this week's items: Leaders of Canada’s research library community participating at more copyright roundtables and another town hall meeting; As Google Settlement Hits Homestretch, Libraries Push for Changes; FESTSCHRIFT Honoring Duane E. Webster Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries 1988–2008; Progressive signals? From the Tories? On copyright? http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert339-e.html Some of this week's items: Library brawl: Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon teaming up to oppose Google's digital book settlement; UC Academics Raise Major Concerns About Google Settlement; Google bruises Gallic pride as national library does deal with search giant; CIPPIC Launches DigitalAgenda.ca To Facilitate Grassroots Advocacy http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert338-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL’s Pre-Budget Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance; Canadian online archive helps British regiment use sketchy historical details to finally pinpoint the site of battle on Halloween, 1914; What in the world are we waiting for?; ARL SPEC Kit 311: Public Access Policies http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert337-e.html Some of this week's items: Deadline extended for CARL research grants applications; University of Alberta helping develop new literary database; Government of Canada Invests in Digitization of Canadian Multicultural Newspapers; Copyright: Let's take ownership: Outdated legislation hinders Canada's digital engagement http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert336-e.html Some of this week's items: Microsoft and Yahoo! announce Web search deal; Canada’s Copyright Consultation Has Many Talking; Copyright rules must protect innovation, groups say: debate heats up over digital locks; Rethinking copyright in the media age http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert335-e.html Some of this week's items: WIPO Launches On-line Tool to Facilitate Access to Targeted Scientific Information; Fissures Evident in Panel on Google Settlement; University of Calgary 'moving to the next level' with new digital library; Students’ Use of Research Content in Teaching and Learning: a Report for the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC) http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert334-e.html Some of this week's items: LibQUAL+ Canada 2010; Facebook needs to improve privacy practices, investigation finds; University of Alberta librarian heads Canadian library group; University Press 2.0 http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert333-e.html Some of this week's items: Publishers demand IP Rights To Protect Journalism; President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Francis Collins as NIH Director; Canada joins international effort to provide access to health research; World's Largest Ocean Observatory Nears Completion http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert332-e.html Some of this week's items: Digital revolution needs to speed up in Canada; Dramatic Growth of Open Access; Podcast: How Google Book Search Affects Academe; And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Government Information Online http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert331-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL sponsoring LibQUAL Canada consortial survey in 2010 with "LibQUAL Lite"; CARL response to CFI Program Consultation; Senators Cornyn and Lieberman Team Up To Increase Public Access To Taxpayer Funded Research; Canada's Digital Economy: Moving Forward http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert330-e.html Some of this week's items: Ernie Ingles President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries; Results of the IFLA election of President-elect 2009; 'Digital nation' key to economic recovery, academics say; Remixing Democratic Discourse - New Media and the End of 'Read Only' http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert329-e.html Some of this week's items: L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada accueille la Brock University Library; L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) et Canadiana.org célèbrent le lancement du Générateur de collections numériques (GCN) de Canadiana.org; Directors of 10 US and Canadian university presses endorse Open Access; AFMC Resource Group on Libraries and Standing Committee on Research and Graduate Studies urge the Canadian Government to reconsider funding cuts to the NRC’s and Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert328-e.html Some of this week's items: Ingrid Parent, lauréate du prix en reconnaissance de services éminents à la recherche en sciences de l’information de l’ABRC pour 2009; Appui à une tendance croissante vers la recherche en bibliothéconomie; Les Archives nationales achètent des documents du début de la colonie; Plaque Coup de coeur à l'Université Laval - L'information est mise au service de l'Afrique francophone http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert327-e.html Some of this week's items: Canada's former chief librarian and archivist joins University of Waterloo on Stratford Institute; Carte génétique du Québec - Cartagène veut recruter 20 000 Québécois de 40 à 69 ans; La fracture numérique; Sondage : les deux tiers des canadiens sont inquiets des compressions dans le financement de la recherche http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert326-e.html Some of this week's items: Elsevier Journal Scandal Provokes Significant Librarian Response: Elsevier admits total of six problematic publications; Progressive Librarians Guild issues call for action; Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpace; Culture of Applied Research Emphasized as University of Alberta Libraries Hires Director of Research; Open Access policy a first in Canada http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert325-e.html Some of this week's items: CIHR President Announces Web Consultations on Draft Strategic Plan; Will Canada miss the next wireless revolution?; Time for an Innovation Canada Department, a ministry of the future; Where There’s a Will There’s a Way? Survey of Academic Librarian Attitudes about Open Access http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert324-e.html Some of this week's items: China, Russia, Canada top copyright pirates, says U.S.; Ignatieff fulfills commitment to raise funding of science agencies in House; Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal; Prime Minister Stephen Harper Announces Appointment of New Librarian and Archivist of Canada http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert323-e.html Some of this week's items: United Nations Opens World Digital Library; York books scanned, digitized at Internet Archive; Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research Article http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert322-e.html Some of this week's items: Canadian candidate for IFLA President-elect; PM urged to restore science funds; Full Access to Cochrane Library online to all Canadians; Policy Briefing: Innovation http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert321-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL Meets with Ministry Officials on Copyright; CARL Invited to Public Consultation on ACTA; Secrecy slowing drug research: leading scientist urges transparency to deliver drugs to patients sooner; Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert320-e.html Some of this week's items: EU Council may pass ACTA silently during parliamentary recess; Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured; The Jigsaw Puzzle of Digital Preservation: an Overview; ICSTI 2009 Conference: Managing Data for Science http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert319-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL to participate at Federation Congress "super booth" ; Preliminary Program for CARL 2009 Annual General Meeting; Ready for digital stacks?; MIT opens access to its research articles http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert318-e.html Some of this week's items: MIT adopts a university-wide OA mandate; Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Votes for Open Access for Scholarly Articles; Librarians Confront New Uncertainties Over Training and Jobs; Government MPs form caucus on higher ed http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert317-e.html Some of this week's items: First U.S. Public Access Policy Made Permanent; Research is more valuable when it is shared, according to a new educational initiative launched in partnership by CARL and SPARC; Group of European scholars petitions the European Parliament to reject directive on term extension of copyright for sound recordings; Minister's use of recorder highlights need for clear copyright rules http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert316-e.html Some of this week's items: Canadiana.org welcomes Ron Walker as Interim Executive Director; The Polar Information Commons (PIC): Establishing the Framework for Long-term Stewardship of Polar Data and Information; It's time for Canada's digital revolution; Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert315-e.html Some of this week's items: SURF: 2009 is Open Access Year; Librarian Opposes Google's Library Fees; NRC cuts could affect 300 positions; Science Commons Wants Data to Be Free http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert314-e.html Some of this week's items: ARL Issues Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis; University Council Approves Open Access Plan; eIFL.net and Bioline International sign Memorandum of Understanding to promote open access; Ten associations and advocacy groups send letter asking [U.S.] House Judiciary Committee members to oppose the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert313-e.html Some of this week's items: Four leading [U.S.] associations serving research universities issue call to action; RoMEO has reached 500 publishers; A Digital Window on the Medieval World; Digital Archivists, Now in Demand http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert312-e.html Some of this week's items: The Conyers Bill is back; University of Alberta Libraries First Canadian Member of CLOCKSS; Google Earth Fills Its Watery Gaps; Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: Gap Analysis http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert311-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries applauds the Investments in Knowledge Infrastructure that the federal government will be making through Budget 2009; Increased capacity and seamless user-focused services are tops on the list for CARL member libraries; Physicists Set Plan in Motion to Change Publishing System; Research reveals economic case for open access publishing http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert310-e.html Some of this week's items: Ottawa announces $10.7-million digital media project; McMaster University Library Acquires Resistance Collection - Offers Multinational Perspectives of War; University of California Libraries and Springer Sign Pilot Agreement for Open Access Journal Publishing; Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Advocacy Resources http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert309-e.html Some of this week's items: Report reveals the true cost of scholarly communication; Responding to the global economic crisis: Don’t forget Canada’s “Intellectual Infrastructure”; Google brings masterpieces from Prado direct to armchair art lovers; ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit redesigned http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2009/elert308-e.html Some of this week's items: Heather Joseph defends the NIH policy against the Conyers bill; Canadian Consortium for Research gives budget advice to Ministers, Leaders and MPs; Always on: Libraries in a world of permanent connectivity; The letters of the law: a lively year in Canadian technology law and policy http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert307-e.html Some of this week's items: Letter from CARL to the Honourable James M. Flaherty, Minister of Finance (December 19, 2008); Lectures gain electronic life in Egyptian library; Google Deal or Rip-Off?; Blue Ribbon Task Force Issues Report on Data Deluge http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert306-e.html Some of this week's items: Consortium Releases New Guidelines for Web Accessibility; Researchers at Virginia Tech Create Synthetic American Population on Supercomputer; Internet Governance must ensure freedom of expression and universal access, UNESCO says; PEER announces upcoming calls for research tenders http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert305-e.html Some of this week's items: Digital Repository Federation (Japan) and DRIVER sign Memorandum of Agreement; National Strategy puts information access on the agenda for people with print disabilities; Novanet and University of New Brunswick to use OCLC WorldCat Local service; Perimeter Institute lands Stephen Hawking http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert304-e.html Some of this week's items: Key Considerations of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for a New Copyright Bill with Reference to the 2008 Bill C-61: An Act to Amend the Copyright Act; Amazon Web Services Seeks Public Data Sets; For Advice on Publishing in the Digital World, Scholars Turn to Campus Libraries; PoWR: the Preservation of Web Resources handbook http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert303-e.html Some of this week's items: NASULGC President Calls for New Focus on IP and Copyright Policy in Latest ARL Bimonthly Report; Google expected to take over Ottawa data firm; Harper government reinstates ministerial position for science and technology; Science community plans global data library http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert302-e.html Some of this week's items: Ottawa plans pullout from UN water program; In Boost for NIH Policy, Major Autism Research Organization Mandates Public Access; A copyright call to arms: The new Parliament should listen to Canadians as it tries to balance corporate and consumer rights; A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert301-e.html Some of this week's items: Brian Bell Completes Canadiana.org Appointment as Executive Co-Director; EU supports open access to scientific and scholarly information; Supporting the “Scholarship” in E-Scholarship; Libraries and Publishing 3.0: Student Views from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the University of British Columbia http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert300-e.html Some of this week's items: Harvard-Google Online Book Deal at Risk; Google Settles Suit over Book-Scanning Project; SSHRC reviewing peer review practices; The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert299-e.html Some of this week's items: Response of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) to the Draft Repository Library Agreement (June 17, 2008); Launch of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA); An Elephant Backs up Google’s Library; Latindex - Online Regional Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert298-e.html Some of this week's items: Response from the Liberal Party of Canada to CARL's pre-election questions; Brisbane Declaration on Open Access; ArXiv, Pioneering Online Scientific Repository Hits Major Milestone; Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS); Waterloo Copyright FAQ http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert297-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) sent a list of pre-election questions to the offices of the federal parties; CLA Launches Federal Election Kit; A bill to overturn the NIH policy; Analysis of Comments and Implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert296-e.html Some of this week's items: Elias A. Zerhouni to End Tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health; Canada missing out on open access momentum; Australia ups the ante on global access to research; hakia Issues Open Call to Librarians and Information Professionals: Help Us Guide Web Searchers to Credible Web Sites http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert295-e.html Some of this week's items: Discussion paper on the development of the service strategy by LAC Services Branch; 33 Nobel laureates write to Congress in support of the NIH policy; After Hearing, Sweeping Anti-NIH Bill To Be Shelved—for Now; AUCC launches federal election advocacy website http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert294-e.html Some of this week's items: Congressional Hearing Over Public Access Filled With High Drama; More on attempts to undo the NIH policy; Australian Government Releases Innovation Review Paper; The Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists and Curators: an Assessment of Current Practices and Future Needs http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert293-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is holding a meeting on institutional repositories in conjunction with the Access2008 conference; Contentious copyright bill would die with election; Library and Archives Canada: A Core Partner of the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project; Big Data, special issue of Nature that examines what big data sets mean for contemporary science http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert292-e.html Some of this week's items: Prime Minister kicks off northern tour by expanding geo-mapping program; Out in the open: Some scientists sharing results; Open access and evolving scholarly communication; Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert291-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) gave its pre-budget submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on August 15, 2008; NRC-CISTI launches NRC Publications Archive initiative; Library and Archives Canada: Towards a Trusted Digital Repository; No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert290-e.html Some of this week's items: Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge; The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age; Fair dealing after CCH; Graduate Professional Certificate in Library Sector Leadership at the University of Victoria http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert289-e.html Some of this week's items: Mr. Claude Bonnelly, former Director of Libraries at Université Laval, was named recipient of the CARL Award of Merit; First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry; Research Funding Agencies Commit to Strategic Directions for Canadian Common CV; Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?; http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert288-e.html Some of this week's items: Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine; Two new policies widen the path to balanced copyright management: Developments on author rights; Webcast: Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly; DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Form Working Collaboration http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert287-e.html Some of this week's items: PubMed Central Submissions Jump Sharply Under New NIH Policy; Research Data Strategy Working Group: opening new pathways to Canadian research data; NRC Publications Archive: Extending the reach and increasing the impact of NRC research; Retaining Copyright in Journal Articles http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert286-e.html Some of this week's items: NERL Joins SCOAP3; Expanding university research activity creating cost pressures on other activities; The New Digital Awareness; International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert285-e.html Some of this week's items: Canada needs a national broadband strategy; Unprecedented degree of collaboration: Canadian funding agencies form consortium to support cancer stem cell research; Australia joins push for Open Access to particle physics; PIJIP and the AU Center for Social Media Release Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for User-Generated Content http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert284-e.html Some of this week's items: Open Access Policy will give researchers worldwide immediate access to OICR data; In Lawsuit, University Asserts That Downloading Copyrighted Texts Is Fair Use; Stanford University School of Education Open Access Motion; Science Dissemination using Open Access: A compendium of selected literature on Open Access http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert283-e.html Some of this week's items: University of Calgary funds Open Access Authors Fund; Digital locks, lack of consultation fuel anger at copyright bill; TClickers, Pedagogy and Edtechtainment; Shaping Policies for the Future of the Internet Economy; http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert282-e.html Some of this week's items: Canada's new copyright bill: More spin than 'win-win'; The “I’m Feeling Lucky Syndrome”: Teacher-Candidates’ Knowledge of Web Searching Strategies; Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0; The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2008-09 Edition http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert281-e.html Some of this week's items: Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act, is large, complicated and detailed; Canada takes aim at digital pirates; Canadian Copyright Law: A Consumer White Paper; To Share or not to Share: Publication and Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert280-e.html Some of this week's items: The CARL Data Management Working Group’s working paper Survey of Canadian and International Data Management Initiatives; Government buffing Prentice's Wikipedia entry; Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch; Scholarly Communication Innovations http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert279-e.html Some of this week's items: May 15 programme Improving the Dissemination of Research Outputs; Call for Nominations from the CRKN Membership; Library budgets, open access, and the future of scholarly communication: Transformations in academic publishing; Exploring tangible benefits of e-learning: does investment yield interest? http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert278-e.html Some of this week's items: E-Books in Research Libraries: Issues of Access and Use, prepared by the CARL Copyright Committee Task Group on E-Books; Final Report of the CARL Library Education Working Group; McMaster University Library partners with Kirtas Technologies, Ristech and Lulu.com to unleash thousands of rare books to the world; The Library in the New Age http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/pdf/Academy%202009%20press%20release%20_2_.pdf The 2009 Service Quality Evaluation Academy, co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), is now accepting participant nominations, with a deadline of October 27, 2008. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert277-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) recognized Carole Moore, Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto, as the winner of the 2008 CARL award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship; Chair in E-Librarianship created at York University; Berkeley steps forward with bold initiative to pay authors’ open-access charges; The Parallel Information Universe http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert276-e.html Some of this week's items: Concern grows as copyright law debate heats up; C and RL preprints go open access; Irish Research Council moves to improve access to research findings; Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness http://www.carl-abrc.ca/about/grant/elearning-e.html The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) invites applications for the CARL E-learning Research and Development Grant. The grant is designed to support research and the development by librarians actively involved in the development and delivery of e-learning. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert275-e.html Some of this week's items: University of Waterloo recruits Arthur Carty to head up new institute in nanotechnology; CANARIE's future focus of strategic study; Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans; Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert274-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology; Some Libraries Shun Google in Book Battle; Stirling scholars to put all published work online; Globalization and scholarly communication: a story of Canadian marginalization http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert273-e.html Some of this week's items: Reality Through Evidence; The Evidence-Based Practice Cheerleader - Margaret Haines; Trying to preserve today's Web for future generations; The Open Science Directory http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert272-e.html Some of this week's items: Copyright reform remains elusive; Web Site Restores "Abortion" Search Term; Net throttling will choke online innovation in Canada; Becta releases volume 3 (2008) in its "Emerging Technologies for Learning" research reports series http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert271-e.html Some of this week's items: Ms. Leslie Weir, President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced the appointment of Mr. Brent Roe as Executive Director; Bell throttles its Internet competitors; Lifecycle Librarianship; Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert270-e.html Some of this week's items: University of Waterloo and Stratford celebrate key milestones in plans for university campus; Free and Open Source options for creating database-driven subject guides; Health Research Funding Agencies’ Support and Promotion of Knowledge Translation: An International Study; Best Practices for Scientific Data Stewardship http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert269-e.html Some of this week's items: Arthur Carty critical of government decision to eliminate national science advisor position; Book Ends? Turning the Page into the 21st Century; Revenge of the Experts; Information Liberation http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert268-e.html Some of this week's items: Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books; Canadian University Offers Students Ability to Highlight Lecture Videos; Les bibliothèques académiques européennes: brève synthèse prospective; Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert267-e.html Some of this week's items: CARL (the Canadian Association of Research Libraries) and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), announced the launch of Create Change Canada, a Canadian version of the popular researcher-focused Web resource on scholarly communication; Nouveau Directeur général de l’ASTED; Celebrations and Tough Questions Follow Harvard's Move to Open Access; Les droits d’auteur a l’heure d’Internet http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/open_access/pdf/ccc_announce-e_feb2008.pdf Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC – February 28, 2008 – CARL (the Canadian Association of Research Libraries) and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), today announced the launch of Create Change Canada, a Canadian version of the popular researcher-focused Web resource on scholarly communication. The original Create Change Web site was developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and SPARC with support from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert266-e.html Some of this week's items: British journal blasts Tory government for ‘dismal’ track record on science; An Upstart Web Catalog Challenges an Academic-Library Giant; Canada a top copyright violator, U.S. group says; Can social bookmarking improve web search? http://www.carl-abrc.ca/about/working_groups/library_education_mandate-e.html The results of a 2007 national research agenda survey undertaken by the CARL Library Education Working Group are available on the CARL web site. In part 1 of the survey CARL Directors identify 112 pressing issues. In part 2 respondents prioritized the list by ten topic areas. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert265-e.html Some of this week's items: Business coalition opposes harsh copyright reform; Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement; Institutional Repositories and E-Journal Archiving: What Are We Learning?; Digital Curation Tools http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert264-e.html Some of this week's items: CIHR's Policy on Access to Research Outputs is Now in Effect; The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories; Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data; Google Book Search: the good the bad and the ugly http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert263-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) hosted a Data Management in Canada meeting on January 25, 2008, in Ottawa; Microsoft ventures into open access chemistry; First DRIVER Summit demonstrates the advancement of the European repository network and lays out further actions; Library Leaders Named to Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/copyright/CARL_digitalcopyright_statement-Jan2008-e.pdf This statement highlights CARL's position on four key copyright reform issues http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert262-e.html Some of this week's items: Fair copyright provides Prentice with reform roadmap; SPARC Announces Winners of the First Annual SPARKY Awards; DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across Europe; L’université numérique : Rapport à Madame Valérie Pécresse, Ministre de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert261-e.html Some of this week's items: Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research; Improved Access to Research Outputs; Reference Books? Give me Wikipedia!; Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2008/elert260-e.html Some of this week's items: Public Access Mandate Made Law: President Bush Signs Omnibus Appropriations Bill, Including National Institutes of Health Research Access Provision; Provincial Archives Struggle to Save History; Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video; Environmental Scan 2007 http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert259-e.html Some of this week's items: Facebook More Than Just a Cool Tool for Kids; Canadian Universities' Resource Sharing Agreement Extends From Coast to Coast; Promoting Professionalism, and Academic Librarianship: Observations on the Marketing of the M.L.S. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/pdf/2007-12-14_resource_sharing.pdf Toronto, Ontario: Effective January 2, 2008, Canadian university faculty, students and staff will now be supported by one Resource Sharing Agreement amongst institutions. The new agreement will extend standardized reciprocal interlibrary loan / document delivery privileges across Canada. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert258-e.html Some of this week's items: Government Retreats on Copyright Reform: Minister of Industry Jim Prentice Delays Plan to Introduce Controversial Bill; Searching for Common Ground on Copyrights; Educational Fair Use Today; Professors Wanted: Faculty Renewal and Enrolment Growth Drive the Need for Thousands of New Hires in Next Decade http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert257-e.html Some of this week's items: The Canadian DMCA: What You Can Do; Popularize or Perish; Copyright Debate Finds No Shortage of Missionary Zeal; Today’s Digital Information Landscape http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert256-e.html Some of this week's items: Inside the Tomb of Tomes; Commons 2.0: Library Spaces Designed for Collaborative Learning; Synergies: Building National Infrastructure for Canadian Scholarly Publishing; The Changing Environment of University Publishing http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/pdf/carl-cdis_comments-final.pdf The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) commends Library and Archives Canada (LAC) on initiating a dialogue to develop a Canadian Digital Information Strategy. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert255-e.html Some of this week's items: Internet nearing capacity, U.S. study says; Study: Scientists Criticize Attempts to Steer Research; The Future of Reading; Academic Database Assessment Tool http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert254-e.html Some of this week's items: Copyright Act Key to Canada’s Industrial Strategy; Bringing the Reading Room into the Digital Age; Canada's Digital Info Strategy Stuck in an Analog World; ARL Provides Free Online Access to Study of Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives http://library.queensu.ca/webir/canlibqual/carl-workshop-2007.htm Speakers' presentations from the CARL / ARL LibQual+ Canada Workshop (October 24-25, 2007) are now available on the LibQual+ Canada web site. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert253-e.html Some of this week's items: ACRL Invites Comments on Scholarly Communication Research Agenda; The New Librarians: Building the Academic Library of Tomorrow; First Online Resource Dedicated to 21st Century Skills Teaching and Learning Is Launched; SPARC and ACRL Release Materials on the Progress of Open Access Journal Publishing http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert252-e.html Some of this week's items: E-Lert archives are searchable back to issue number 86 (Friday February 9, 2004); CARL Institutional Repositories Program: Vision, Priorities, and Projects - update; Canadian Digital Information Strategy (CDIS); Future Reading: Digitization and its Discontents http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert251-e.html Some of this week's items: Open Access: the New World of Research Communication - webcast; Universities become big-time investors; Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law; Directory of Experimental Library Tools http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/statistics/pdf/media%20release-2006-e.pdf OTTAWA October 22, 2007 - Borrowing of laptop computers a popular trend in Canadian research libraries http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert250-e.html Some of this week's items: Critics Balk at Withdrawal of Journal From Archive; End of Paying for Information on the Net?; Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/open_access/October_10_2007-e.html The University of Ottawa Library, in association with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), hosted a public seminar entitled Open Access: the New World of Research Communication on Wednesday October 10, 2007. An enthusiastic audience of about 110 students, faculty, researchers and librarians attended. A podcast and the accompanying Power Point presentations are available on the CARL Website. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert249-e.html Some of this week's items: Scientific Internet Gets Major Speed Boost; Anti-Open Access Group Loses Another Supporter; Data Sharing Threatens Privacy: Analyses of Personal Information Raise Spectre of Big Brother; Social Networking Tools: Hands on Learning. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/pdf/carl_submission_onl_lawful_access_consultation-e.pdf The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) gave its submission regarding the Customer Name and Address Information Consultation to Public Safety Canada on October 9, 2007. The document is now available in English on the CARL Website. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert248-e.html Produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the E-lert is a weekly alerting service. Coverage is principally: research, innovation, scholarly publishing, scholarly communication, scholarly journals, electronic journals, copyright and access to published government information. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/about/award/award_news_2007-e.html TORONTO, September 26, 2007 - The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) recognized Mr. Brian Owen, Simon Fraser University, as the winner of the 2007 CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship. The Award was made to mark Mr. Owen's technical and project leadership in a number of flagship projects that have benefited Canada's research and library communities. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert247-e.html Produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the E-lert is a weekly alerting service. Coverage is principally: research, innovation, scholarly publishing, scholarly communication, scholarly journals, electronic journals, copyright and access to published government information. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications/elert/2007/elert246-e.html Produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the E-lert is a weekly alerting service. Coverage is principally: research, innovation, scholarly publishing, scholarly communication, scholarly journals, electronic journals, copyright and access to published government information.