Author: CARL ABRC

Friday, July 30, 2021. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) welcomes today’s judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in the York University v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) case. Having intervened in this case due … More >> CARL Applauds Supreme Court’s Copyright Ruling on the Application of Tariffs and Fair Dealing

Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective cultural past: every book, letter, or document was created, read and then immediately thrown away. What would we know … More >> Call for Participation: The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition

February 16, 2021 –  Back in 2018, Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) members jointly released for the first time their journal subscription cost data for collections and packages negotiated by Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), as part of their … More >> CARL Members Release 2019-2020 Journal Subscription Cost Data and Earlier Data

January  25, 2021. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Portage Network (Portage) would like to express concerns about the Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter, recently proposed through the FAIR Sharing initiative. The proposed approach, developed primarily … More >> CARL and Portage Response to “Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter”

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is seeking a Project Assistant for a short-term part-time contract to support its Creating More Visibility for Canadian Journals’ Self-Archiving Policies project. The work entails validating the information about Canadian journal titles and converting this … More >> Short-term Contract: Project Assistant for Canadian Journals’ Self-Archiving Policies project

October 28, 2020. – The Canadian Web Archives Coalition (CWAC) is excited to announce its 2020-21 webinar series, which will cover a range of topics on web archiving, new developments within the community, and special areas of interest as they … More >> Announcing the 2020-21 Web Archives Webinars Series

                          BACKGROUND Researchers frequently need to know where and when they can share a copy of their submitted, accepted and/or published journal articles in order to: meet the … More >> Creating More Visibility for Canadian Journals’ Self-Archiving Policies: An Open Access Week 2020 Crowdsourcing Project

Although the Canadian academic library community is active in promoting open access and open scholarship all year round, CARL wishes to highlight the many activities being organized for Open Access Week 2020. SPARC, the organization behind this annual international initiative, … More >> October 19-23, 2020 is Open Access Week

Tuesday, September 15, 2020. – A joint working group of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) today released its final report, laying the groundwork for a collective shared print program across Canadian libraries. … More >> New CARL-LAC Report Proposes National Shared Print Network for Canada

July 31, 2020 – CARL and Portage are pleased to announce their endorsement of the TRUST Principles for digital repositories.  Digital information increasingly drives the research process and enables broad access to research data and other types of digital collections. … More >> CARL and Portage Endorse the TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories