E-Lert # 330 / Cyberavis no. 330

Friday June 12, 2009 / le vendredi 12 juin 2009

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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE l’ABRC

Ernie Ingles President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ernie Ingles as President of CARL at the Association’s recently held Annual General Meeting in Montreal, Quebec. His two-year term runs until spring 2011. As CARL President, he also serves on the Board of Directors of both Canadiana.org and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). (PDF)

Ernie Ingles, président de l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada

L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) est heureuse d’annoncer la nomination de Ernie Ingles à titre de président à l’occasion de l’assemblée générale annuelle de l’Association tenue récemment à Montréal (Québec). Son mandat de deux ans s’étendra jusqu’au printemps de 2011. À titre de président de l’ABRC, il siège également aux conseils d’administration de Canadiana.org et du Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR). (PDF)

NEWS / NOUVELLES

Results of the IFLA election of President-elect 2009
June 10, 2009

Ingrid Parent (Canada) is elected to serve as President-elect for the term 2009-2011 and to serve as President for the term 2011-2013. Her vision is a strong, confident and visible IFLA that will act globally in order to strengthen libraries locally. It will focus on convergence to ensure access and diversity, and building alliances with partners and funding agencies. The results of the 2009 IFLA Governing Board Election are also available on the IFLA Website.*
http://www.ifla.org/en/news/results-of-the-election-of-president-elect-2009

U.S. asking about book deal, Google says
Diane Bartz
Reuters, June 10 2009

The U.S. Justice Department has notified Google Inc that antitrust investigators are looking into its settlement with publishers that would help make millions of books available online. Under a proposed settlement last October between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, Google agreed to pay $125 million to create a Book Rights Registry, where authors and publishers can register works and receive compensation from institutional subscriptions or book sales.*
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55879V20090610

'Digital nation' key to economic recovery, academics say
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail, June 9, 2009

While governments spend billions on ailing industries, roads and bridges, a group led by the University of Waterloo has captured the attention of politicians and corporate leaders with a pitch to place digital media as a key enabler of the country's economic-recovery. Organizers of a two-day conference that began on June 8,in Stratford, Ontario, hope to gain momentum for their push to make Canada a leader in the biggest technological revolution since the railway.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-nation-key-to-recovery-academics/article1172651/

Open Access Growing Steadily, But Powerful Gatekeepers Remain
CAUT Bulletin, June 2009

The recent vote by MIT faculty to freely and publicly distribute their research articles marks a sea change in the relationship between academic authors and publishers of scientific journals. “Resistance by publishers to authors retaining copyright and posting their scholarship online is diminishing,” says Brent Roe, executive director of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. “Work by professor Stevan Harnad at Université du Québec à Montréal and others indicates that a majority of journals now allow authors to engage in internet self-archiving in an institutional repository or some other form of open distribution of their work.” * HTML

A new Centre for research and development in open access at the University of Nottingham
June 5, 2009

The SHERPA team at the University of Nottingham are pleased to announce the formation of a new research centre -- the Centre for Research Communications (CRC). This will be based at the University and will help to support and inform new ideas. The CRC will house the portfolio of open access projects, services and initiatives currently undertaken by the University. Bill Hubbard has been appointed as Head of the CRC: "We aim to develop innovative research and development activities across the whole field of research communication. This is an exciting time for authors and researchers. We are beginning to leave behind straightforward electronic analogues of our centuries-old print world and realize the possibilities of new and far richer forms of research communication." *
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/crclaunch.htm

WIPO Copyright Body Takes up Limitations and Exceptions, with a Focus on the Visually Impaired
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest, Volume 13, Number 20, June 3, 2009

WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights recently reviewed a new treaty proposal for blind and visually impaired persons. Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay tabled a draft treaty on limitations and exceptions for the blind and visually impaired. It is the first time, in recent years, that a group of countries has proposed a treaty at WIPO that, rather than expanding the scope of intellectual property protection, seeks to strengthen the rights of users and consumers.*
http://ictsd.net/i/news/bridgesweekly/47862/

ARTICLES

Le droit d’auteur 10 ans après Napster
David Chamberland
Impact Campus, 9 juin, 2009

En effet, il y a 10 ans, Napster naissait d’un étudiant en informatique nommé Shawn Fanning, ayant décidé de laisser tomber ses cours pour se concentrer dans un projet de libre distribution de fichiers musicaux. Entièrement programmé par l’étudiant du Massachusetts, sa popularité fut explosive: en l’espace de six mois, plus de deux millions d’utilisateurs avaient téléchargé son programme et s’échangeaient des fichiers. Conséquences? À une vitesse incalculable, des fichiers de musique, de film, des livres, ainsi que des logiciels étaient en circulation partout dans le monde, au delà des États et des frontières tangibles. Aujourd’hui, la problématique du téléchargement est un sujet d’actualité, autant dans la sphère juridique que celle politique. En temps de crise dans une économie du savoir et des services, les gouvernements nord-américains désirent que la production intellectuelle, peu importe dans quel domaine elle se trouve, soit contrôlée.*
http://impactcampus.qc.ca/article.jsp?issue=2009-06-09&article=Le-droit-d_auteur--10-ans-apres-Napster

Is Canada Really the Illegal File Sharing Frontier? And why that Wild West myth deserves some vigilante justice
Michael Geist
The Tyee, June 9, 2009

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the debut of Napster, the file sharing service that had a profound, transformative effect on the music and Internet services industries. As many commentators mark the anniversary by reassessing Napster's impact and speculating on what lies ahead, Geist debunks some myths about file sharing in Canada.*
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2009/06/09/FileSharingFrontier/

Remixing Democratic Discourse - New Media and the End of 'Read Only'
Heather Stilwell
2009 Dalton Camp Award

Heather Stillwell, one of the two recipients of the Dalton Camp Award for 2009, explores how our ability to access, post and share information globally has led to the establishment of new and innovative forms of online discourse. The internet and online dissemination of ideas and works are not all that new, but they are no doubt still in the process of changing all facets of how our society communicates. Whether we benefit from the changes will depend on how we as a society evolve alongside them.*
http://www.friends.ca/DCA/2009_winners/HeatherStilwell

Waddayaknow? Knowledge Management Can Be an Organization's Key to Survival
Tommy Peterson
The Conference Board of Canada: Executive action series, Number 304, May 2009

While companies strip down to mission-critical essentials for a long march through the current recession, investment in knowledge management (KM) is not necessarily an obvious priority. Sometimes lost in the discussion of knowledge management and its various implementations is the realization that cost reduction is one of KM’s fundamental benefits, according to Kent Greenes, a KM pioneer and consultant. In his own consulting practice, Greenes has documented “hundreds of millions” of dollars in savings and efficiencies that resulted from managing knowledge effectively.* [Note: free registration required to access article.]
http://sso.conferenceboard.ca/e-Library/LayoutAbstract.asp?DID=3061

A New Conception of Information Literacy for the Digital Environment in Higher Education
Sharon Markless
Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education, Volume 1, Number 1, 2009

Markless outlines her journey towards a deeper understanding of the nature of information literacy and how IL learning can be supported. This work was stimulated by a consultancy in one UK university to recommend an appropriate IL framework for use in their virtual learning environment. The discussion considers relevant principles of learning, the place of student reflection in IL learning, what IL in higher learning should encompass, the importance of context in developing IL, and the influence of the digital environment, especially Web 2.0. Markless critiques the main features of existing IL frameworks in higher education, and offers a new IL framework along with a rationale for its appearance and use.*
https://noril.uib.no/index.php/noril/article/view/17

RESOURCES / RESSOURCES

'Teaching Copyright' Website launched
May 27, 2009

As the entertainment industry promotes its new anti-copying educational program to teachers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its own "Teaching Copyright" curriculum and website to help educators give students a balanced story about their digital rights and responsibilities on the Internet and beyond. The Teaching Copyright curriculum is a detailed, customizable plan that connects students to contemporary issues related to the Internet and technology. Teaching Copyright invites discussion about how creativity is enabled by new technologies, what digital rights and responsibilities exist or should exist, and what roles students play as users of technology.*
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/05/27

Powering Ideas: an Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century
Commonwealth of Australia, 2009

Innovation is the key to national productivity and competitiveness. It is critical to answering the challenge of climate change, the challenge of security, the age-old challenges of disease and want. It is the key to creating a future that is better than the past. Tough times demand creative solutions. Powering Ideas is intended to help identify those solutions in order to transform challenges into opportunities, and risks into rewards.*
http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/PoweringIdeas_fullreport.pdf

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)
May 6, 2009

DigitalPreservationEurope(DPE), building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe. DPE fosters collaboration and synergies between many existing national and international initiatives across the European Research Area. See embedded video entitled Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation.*
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.org/

Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation
May 29, 2009

This study examines the costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models in the Netherlands. It is a follow-up of the Australian study ‘Research Communication Costs, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits’ (Houghton et al. 2006) and the UK/JISC study ‘Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models’. The Dutch study was commissioned by SURFfoundation and led by Professor John Houghton from the Centre of Strategic Economic Studies at Melbourne’s Victoria University and Jos de Jonge and Marcia van Oploo of EIM Business & Policy Research in the Netherlands.*
http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/CostsandBenefitsofOpenAccessPublicationlTheDutchSituation.aspx

EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS

Canadian Science Policy Conference / Conférence sur le Politiques Scientifiques Canadiennes
Toronto, Ontario, October 28-30, 2009 / 28-30 octobre 2009

This conference represents a measured first step towards building a robust science policy network in Canada. Such a system will be critical for producing the next generation of policy-makers who understand S&T issues, as well as scientists who understand how to integrate their research into a broader societal context for the benefit of all Canadians.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/
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Cette conférence représente un premier pas vers la création d’un réseau canadien robuste se concentrant sur les politiques scientifiques. Ce système est nécessaire pour produire la prochaine génération de décideurs qui saisissent les enjeux reliés aux sciences et technologies, ainsi que des scientifiques qui comprennent comment intégrer leur recherche dans un contexte social élargi pour le bénéfice de tous les Canadiens.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/fr/

*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source