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FINAL REPORT

TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM: A CANADIAN RESEARCH STRATEGY

A Report Submitted to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries / L'Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (CARL/ABRC)

January 2005
By the Study Research Team:

Principal Investigator: William F. Birdsall (Canadian Association of Research Libraries/Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada)

Research Associate: Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada)

Co-investigator: Robert E. Babe (University of Western Ontario)

Co-investigator: Jean-Claude D. R. Guédon (Université de Montréal)

Collaborator: Deborah I. deBruijn (Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

Collaborator: J. David Holmes (Carleton University)

Collaborator: Bertrum H. MacDonald (Dalhousie University)

Collaborator: Paul McCormick (Library and Archives Canada)

Collaborator: Ben Schmidt (Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

Collaborator: Gordon Wood (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council)


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowlegementshtml 
Executive Summaryhtml 
Introductionhtml 
Part I: Scholarly Communication
   1.  Public Policy and the Dissemination of
Academic Research
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   2.  The Transformation of Scholarly Communicationhtml 
   3.  Scholarly Communication in Canadahtml 
Part II: A Research Strategy
   4. The Study Methodology: The Consensus
Panel Process
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   5. The Consensus Panel Reporthtml 
   6. A Research Agenda for Knowledge Dissemination
in Canada
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   7. Towards an Integrated Knowledge Ecosystem:
A Research Strategy
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Referenceshtml 

Appendices
I. Backgrounders  

II. A Statistical Overview of Canada's Research Activity
and Its Scholarly Communication Infrastructure

CORRECTION (February 20, 2007):

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This does not include a number of degree-granting institutions, such as BC's university colleges, Alberta and BC's institutes of technology; new institutions such as the University of Ontario Institute of Technology; private universities such as Trinity Western, Royal Roads University or the University of Phoenix (Burnaby) and "virtual" universities such as Athabasca.

The latter paragraph should read:

This does not include a number of degree-granting institutions, such as BC's university colleges, Alberta and BC's institutes of technology; new institutions such as the University of Ontario Institute of Technology; private universities such as Trinity Western, or the University of Phoenix (Burnaby) and "virtual" universities such as Royal Roads and Athabasca.

  
III. Invitation for Panel Volunteers: English and French  
IV. Biographies of Consensus Panel Members  
V. Biographies of Panel Facilitators  
VI. Biographies of Expert Presenters According to Issue  
VII. Questions From the Consensus Panel Provided
to Expert Presenters
  
VIII. Comments of Panel Members on Process  



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