Canada’s research libraries play pivotal roles in the creation and long-term stewardship of the scholarship produced at universities—whether new faculty publications or the research data upon which new scholarship is built. They also provide access for students, faculty, and researchers to the world’s information resources.
Mandate and Role
The Advancing Research Committee develops CARL positions, priorities, and initiatives that collectively aim to foster a sustainable scholarly research ecosystem in Canada, whether at the stage of new knowledge creation or at later stages of its dissemination, use and preservation. While maximizing open access to scholarship is a clear objective, the ultimate goal is to create a healthy, integrated scholarly communication environment to serve the interests of Canadian research, learning and scholarship.
Read the ARC Terms of Reference – Mandat CAR 2022.
Members (as of February 2025)
- Michael Vandenburg (Dalhousie University) – Chair
- Gohar Ashoughian (Simon Fraser University)
- Dale Askey (University of Alberta)
- Lesley Balcom (University of New Brunswick)
- Guylaine Beaudry (McGill University)
- Jonathan Bengtson (University of Victoria)
- Amy Buckland (Concordia University)
- Talia Chung (University of Ottawa)
- Stéphanie Gagnon (Université de Montréal)
- Loubna Ghaouti (Université Laval)
- Frédéric Giuliano (Université du Québec à Montréal)
- Geoff Harder (University of Alberta)
- Christine Ivory (Library of Parliament)
- Dianne C. Keeping (Memorial University)
- Allison Kelley (National Research Council of Canada – replacing Renee Venne March—July 2025)
- Geoffrey Little (Western University)
- Beth Namachchivaya (University of Waterloo)
- Mary-Jo Romaniuk (University of Calgary)
- Jennifer Schofield (Library and Archives Canada)
- Chantal St-Louis (Université de Sherbrooke)
- Renee Venne (National Research Council of Canada – on leave March—July 2025)
- Susan Haigh (CARL, ex-officio)
CARL Liaison and Committee Secretary
Active Sub-Groups of this Committee
- Digital Preservation Working Group (multi-stakeholder group)
- Canadian OpenAIRE Task Force
Past Sub-Groups of this Committee
- Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (multi-stakeholder group)
- Canadian Collective Print Strategy Working Group (multi-stakeholder group) see details on Library and Archives Canada website
- Canadian Scholarly Publishing Working Group (2016-2017, multi-stakeholder group)
- Author Addendum and Author Rights Task Group (2017-2019)
- Open Access Policy Template Working Group
- Open Education Working Group (now part of the Teaching & Learning Committee)
- Open Repositories Working Group
- SHERPA/RoMEO Canadian Journals Working Group
