E-Lert # 331 / Cyberavis no. 331
Friday June 26, 2009 / le vendredi
26 juin 2009
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE l’ABRC
CARL sponsoring LibQUAL Canada consortial survey in 2010 with "LibQUAL Lite."
An invitation is extended to members of all CARL and non-CARL institutions
to participate in a LibQUAL Canada consortial survey in 2010. Participants
can choose the new LibQUAL+ Lite survey alone or in combination with the
full LibQUAL+ survey. Those interested should enquire with Katherine
McColgan at CARL.
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L'ABRC procèdera à un nouveau sondage auprès du consortium LibQUAL Canada en 2010 avec "LibQUAL Lite."
Les établissements membres de l'ABRC ainsi que les établissements non membres de l'ABRC sont invitées à assister un nouveau sondage auprès du consortium LibQUAL Canada en 2010. Les participants peuvent choisir le nouveau sondage LibQual+ Lite seulement ou en combinaison avec le sondage intégral LibQual+ Ceux qui souhaitent participer à cette initiative sont priés de communiquer avec Katherine McColgan à l'ABRC.
CARL response to CFI Program Consultation
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) responded to the request for proposals from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to “explore current and emerging issues, gauge the value of the CFI’s program architecture, and identify possible improvements to future funding programs. (PDF)
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Reponse de l’ABRC aux Consultations sur les programmes de la FCI
L'association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) a
répondu à la demande
des propositions de la Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation (FCI) «afin
d’analyser des questions émergentes ou d’actualité,
d’évaluer l’adéquation de l’architecture
de programmes de la FCI et de cerner les améliorations qui pourraient
être apportées à ses futurs programmes de financement.»
(PDF)
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Copyright Board Releases Educational Copyright Decision
Michael Geist
Michaelgeist.ca, June 26, 2009
The Copyright Board of Canada has released its long
delayed decision on photocopying in primary and secondary schools. There
are two ways of looking at these decisions - the dollar amount of the tariff
and the reasoning. The core aspect of the reasoning, according to Geist,
is the Board's assessment of fair dealing.*
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4084/125/
Senators Cornyn & Lieberman Team Up To Increase Public
Access To Taxpayer Funded Research
June 25, 2009
U.S. Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Joe Lieberman, I-CT, introduced
legislation to expand the public's access to the research they help fund. Their
legislation, the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), would require
every federal department and agency with an annual extramural research budget
of $100 million or more to make their research available to the public within
six months of publication.*
http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ForPress.NewsReleases&ContentRecord_id=1959bcce-802a-23ad-4dbe-e2aece171fb3
"Canadian Excellence" strengthened by extensive
adoption of open access
June 25, 2009
BioMed Central and Wilfrid Laurier University announced the launch of Laurier
IR, an institutional repository that provides a visible point of open access
archiving of intellectual output for all members of the University community.
WLU is just one of many organizations globally that have adopted Open Repository
since its inception. Open Repository is built upon DSpace, an open-source
solution for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly material.*
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/presscenter/pressreleases?pr=20090625
[See comments posted on American Scientist Open Access Forum here
and here,
and reply from BMC.]
Canada's Digital Economy: Moving Forward
June 22, 2009
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, hosted a forum to identify
the key areas of action to help Canada regain its leadership position in
the Digital Economy. Senior level leaders from business, academic and consumer
organizations were invited to contribute their expertise. The objectives
were to agree upon: the major challenges and issues facing Canada as a digital
economy; a statement of collective goals; and a list of priority areas for
action.*
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ecic-ceac.nsf/eng/h_gv00526.html
Background paper: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ecic-ceac.nsf/eng/h_gv00530.html
Webcast of proceedings: http://download.isiglobal.ca/ic_ecom_en/oecd2009-viewer-en.html
Ancestry.ca announces world-first online launch of the
Historical Canadian Censuses
June 22, 2009
Ancestry.ca, in partnership with Library and Archives Canada (LAC), has
completed the world-first online launch of the Historical Canadian Censuses,
1851-1916. This is the first time all of the nine available national censuses
have been published online, fully indexed and
including original document images.*
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/10/c4817.html
Clement vows to boost high-tech sector
David Akin
Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2009
Industry Minister Tony Clement says two key areas he believes will help
boost Canada's high-tech industry - copyright and privacy act reform
- will be at the top of his fall legislative agenda,. Several industry ministers
have tried unsuccessfully to bring Canada's copyright laws into the digital
age but have found it difficult to balance the rights of users, who often
want more freedom to manipulate digital content, against the rights of content
producers, who generally favour a tougher American-style approach to locking
down digital music, movies, software and other content.*
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Clement+vows+boost+high+tech+sector/1721881/story.html
Government of Canada Invests in Research Infrastructure
June 18, 2009
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Honourable Tony Clement,
Minister of Industry, announced over $665 million for new state-of-the-art
infrastructure at 41 Canadian research institutions. “Through the
CFI, our government is creating leading-edge facilities to attract world-class
researchers,” said Minister Tony Clement. “Our government understands
that these investments provide a significant short-term economic stimulus
while making a difference in the lives of Canadians.” *
http://www.innovation.ca/en/news/2009/06/18/204
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Votes Open Access Policy
June 16, 2009
The faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) voted overwhelmingly
to allow the university to make all faculty members' scholarly articles
publicly available online. HGSE is the fourth of Harvard's 10 schools to
endorse open access to faculty research publications. "The field of
education and the mission of libraries have always been aligned in efforts
to bring knowledge to as many people as possible. With the open access resolution,
the work of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education will
now be available to all -- especially those who seek to improve the quality
of education worldwide," said John Collins, librarian of Gutman Library
at HGSE.*
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/blog/news_features_releases/2009/06/harvard-graduate-school-of-education-votes-open-access-policy.html
National student organizations call for Open Access to research
June 10, 2009
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0610.shtml
ARTICLES
It Takes a Village to Raise a Tent: A Case Study in Pitching the Academic Library to Incoming Undergraduate StudentsMelanie Mills and Marisa Mitchell
Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, Volume4, Number 1, 2009
In the fall of 2005, Western Libraries shifted its approach to library
orientation for incoming undergraduate students by launching its very own
orientation campaign rather than continuing to pursue formal inclusion in
the University of Western Ontario’s O-Week program. Mills and Mitchell
detail the planning process and subsequent launch of Western Libraries inaugural
system-wide library orientation initiative. The aim was to position Western
Libraries strategically as a key contributor to ‘the best student
experience’ at the University. The authors also consider the overall
impact of the campaign, as well as its influence on future orientation initiatives
at the University of Western Ontario.*
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/334
Perspectives in Science Policy
Paul Dufour
Research Money, Volume 23, Number 10, June 23, 2009
Veteran public S&T policy expert Paul Dufour examines past debates and discussions that have engaged Canadians on directions of policy for science and innovation. His new column has one simple purpose — what can we learn from our past experimentation in science policy?
Change or Die?
Scott Jaschik
Inside Higher Ed, June 22, 2009
Leading a university press these days can be humbling. The decision to
accept or reject a book proposal can determine the outcome of a tenure bid,
a creative series can reshape thinking in a discipline, and a press director
can see the first drafts of path-breaking ideas. However, to a university
budget officer, none of that is terribly impressive. Garrett P. Keily, director
of the University of Chicago Press, noted (both jokingly and not) that to
his budget office, “the entirety of the University of Chicago Press
is summarized as auxiliary revenue,” adding, “that puts you
in your place.” The challenge of changing economic conditions “continues
to confront and sometimes confound presses,” said Kathleen Keane,
director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and incoming president of
the Association of American University Presses.*
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/22/aaup
Des chercheurs soumis à la censure
Pauline Gravel
Le Devoir, 5 juin, 2009
Tout le monde s'entend pour dire que les chercheurs ont la responsabilité
de produire de nouvelles connaissances et de les transmettre, voire de les
rendre publiques. Dans la pratique, maints résultats de recherches
ne parviennent jamais à nos yeux ou à nos oreilles. La censure
est bel et bien présente dans le monde de la recherche scientifique.
Un colloque organisé par l'Association francophone pour le savoir
(Acfas) s'est penché hier sur la question de la liberté d'expression
des chercheurs.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/06/05/253499.html
M-Libraries: Information use on the move
Keren Mills, May 27, 2009
Developing mobile library services can be expensive and resource intensive.
Before committing funding and staff time to such projects, it is important
to target such endeavors to actual user needs with a view to adding value
to existing library services. The Information Use on the Move project was
undertaken in that spirit - to scope the information requirements of academic
library users on the move in order to inform future development of library
services to mobile devices. Mills seeks to identify trends in the way people
currently interact with information using their mobile phones, and then
extrapolate ways that libraries could support mobile information needs.*
http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/M-Libraries_report.pdf
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional
Research Repositories in Europe
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen et al
Ariadne, Issue 59, April 2009
Since 2006, the EU-sponsored DRIVER Project has aimed to build an interoperable,
trusted and long-term repository infrastructure. A survey was carried out
in order to obtain an overview of repositories with research output in the
European Union in 2006. This study was updated by an expanded survey in
2008, in which 178 institutional research repositories from 22 European
countries participated. Vernooy-Gerritsen et al present the most important
results.*
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al/
Open Access at Concordia University : A Report for the Office of
Research
Kathleen Shearer
March 27, 2009
Academic freedom and openness are the hallmarks of scholarship. Researchers
publish their results, not for financial return, but to enable other researchers
to build upon them and to contribute to the progress of knowledge in their
fields. As such, most scholars want to share their work as widely as possible
with colleagues, students, and others who may be interested.
The current scholarly publishing system does not reflect these needs
and values.
http://library.concordia.ca/research/openaccess/OpenAccessatConcordia%20DiscussionPaper.pdf
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Survey of American College Students: Student Library Research Practices
& Skills
Primary Research Group, July 2009
Over 400 American college students were surveyed on how they go about doing
research in their college libraries. The report includes extensive
data on student use of major search engines, wikipedia, library databases,
book collections and other library resources. The study also provides
detailed information on how their professors advise their students to use
the library, how comfortable the latter feel about their research skills
and how helpful they felt librarians have been in helping them in their
research.*
http://www.primaryresearch.com/publications-The-Survey-of-American-College-Students.html
Data Management Plan Content Checklist: Draft Template for Consultation
Digital Curation Centre (DCC), June 17, 2009
Funders increasingly require their grant-holders to produce data management
plans. This content template draws upon requirements for ‘preliminary’
and ‘full’ versions of a data management plan. The preliminary
version summarizes the main issues most research funders expect researchers
to address at the application stage.*
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/templates/DMP_checklist.pdf
A qui profite la normalisation documentaire ?: Les modèles
économiques de production et de diffusion des normes et métadonnées
5 juin 2009
L’Internet a des répercussions importantes sur la normalisation
documentaire. Cette normalisation n'est plus le seul apanage des bibliothécaires
et documentalistes. Elle s’est étendue à l’industrie
culturelle et à la diffusion de l'information scientifique et technique.
Les modèles économiques de production et de diffusion
des normes et métadonnées sont en ligne sur le site de la
Bnf.*
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/infopro.htm?ancre=actualites/actualites.htm
Nippon Foundation Offers Books on Contemporary Japan to
Libraries
The Nippon Foundation is donating “100 Books for Understanding Contemporary
Japan” in English to 200-300 North American libraries. The book's
cover all aspects of Japan -politics/international relations, literature,
arts, history, society, culture, economics and business, etc. Academic and
public libraries interested in some or all of these books are encouraged
to request books by June 30.*
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/news/20090514BookDonationProject.html
Etude sur le comportements des québécois
vis-à-vis des moteurs de recherche
mai 2009
L’Internet évoluant sans cesse, il est important de vérifier
si ses utilisateurs évoluent au même rythme et acquièrent
de nouvelles compétences et/ou habitudes à l’utilisation
des divers outils proposés: moteurs de recherches, options de courriel,
sites préférés, etc. L’agence québécoise
SEO SEM Skooiz.com publie pour la troisième année son étude
annuelle "Comment les Québécois cherchent-ils sur le
Web en 2009 ?".*
http://www.skooiz.com/comment-les-quebecois-cherchent-ils-sur-le-web.php
Reality Bites: Periodicals Price Survey 2009
Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born
Library Journal, May 15, 2009
Amid grim economic news over state and federal governments in the U.S.
and abroad, libraries of all types and sizes brace themselves for budget
cuts the likes of which have not been seen in three generations. This financial
crisis is ubiquitous, with all but a handful of states in the red and getting
redder. Despite stronger than expected 2009 renewals, the outlook for FY10
is so bleak that libraries and consortia have already begun invoking financial
hardship clauses and asking to renegotiate licenses for bundled content
midterm. Some see in the financial debacle an opportunity to promote more
open systems of scholarly exchange as open access (OA) initiatives gain
more momentum.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6651248.html
Digitization of Publications relating to the Parliament of Canada
Judi McNeil et al
March 30, 2009
This document reviews the state of digitization of papers relating to the
Parliament of Canada as of April 2009. The goal of the working paper is
to help inform the development of a coherent strategy amongst the various
stakeholders to digitize, make available and preserve over the long term,
the corpus of Canadian publications relating to the operations of Parliament
since 1867.*
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/Digitization/index-e.asp
[Français: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/sites/lop/digitization/index-f.asp?Language=F]
European History Primary Sources
European University Institute
European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is a joint initiative of the Library
and the Department
of History and Civilisation of the European
University Institute. This portal provides historians and
students with a searchable index of scholarly websites that offer online
access to primary sources in European history. Most of the listed websites
can be accessed for free, though sometimes a registration is required.*
http://primary-sources.eui.eu/
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Text Messaging Reference: Enhancing Reference Services with SMS
Live Webcast, July 2, 2009
11 a.m Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m.
Eastern
Text messaging is becoming one of the most popular ways people connect with friends, family, and information. 21st century patrons can get information on the go by SMS from answer services and search engines. Some libraries are also providing reference services via this important mode of communication by offering Text Messaging Reference. Joe Murphy of the Yale Science Libraries explores why it is so important for libraries to include text messaging in their suite of reference services.* http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/courses/txtreference.cfm
Red Island Repository Institute
Charlottetown, PEI, July 20-24, 2009
Learn the latest on Fedora and how to build robust and feature-rich repositories.
Instructors for this year's Institute include Chris Wilper and Thorny Staples
(Fedora Commons), Matt Zumwalt (MediaShelf) and Mark Leggott (UPEI).*
http://vre.upei.ca/riri/
Moving In, Moving Up, and Moving On: Strategies for Regenerating
the Library and Information Profession
Bologna, Italy, August 18-20, 2009
This satellite meeting will focus on the creation of a positive work environment
for a multi-generational workforce. The organizers are interested
in this issue as it cuts across a variety of organizational structures,
library types, and other workplaces that employ information workers.*
http://www.ifla.org/en/events/moving-in-moving-up-and-moving-on-strategies-for-regenerating-the-library-and-information-pro
Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical
Publication
Vancouver, British Columbia, September 10-12, 2009
The aim of this conference will be to improve the quality and credibility
of biomedical peer review and publication and to help advance the efficiency,
effectiveness, and equitability of the dissemination of biomedical information
throughout the world. New research into peer review and the other processes
used to evaluate and disseminate medical and scientific information will
be presented. Editors and publishers of biomedical and scientific peer-reviewed
journals, scientists and researchers, funders, biomedical informatics experts,
librarians, biomedical writers, journalists, historians, ethicists, and
anyone else interested in the progress of the biomedical/scientific information
enterprise and the quality of biomedical/scientific information
are encouraged to attend.*
http://www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/peerhome.htm
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
