Date: March 27, 2026 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET Recording CARL's Library Assessment Community of Practice invites you to join an engaging event focused on developing and refining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This interactive session will introduce the fundamentals of KPIs, their significance, and strategies for effective implementation. Our presenter will share firsthand […]
Date: March 12, 2026 Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET Recording The Canadian Association of Research Libraries Digital Preservation Working Group (CARL DPWG) is hosting a free online workshop on WARC repatriation. This workshop aims to build capacity for data sovereignty by empowering institutions across Canada to locally preserve their Archive-It data. The Internet Archive […]
This month's article: Dorta-González, P. (2025). Which kind of research papers influence policymaking. Science and Public Policy, 13. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaf069 Date: March 10, 2026 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET The Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice holds several Article Club Meetings each term. These are regular, discussion-based gatherings focused on exploring key literature in bibliometrics, scientometrics, and research impact. […]
Date: March 9, 2026 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET Registration The Open Journals Collective (OJC) is an international collective of libraries, scholarly societies, and small non-profit publishers working to advance support for diamond open access publishing at no cost to authors or readers. In January 2026, the OJC officially launched its first call for investment […]
Date: February 25, 2026 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET Registration Since the Supreme Court of Canada's 2004 decision in CCH Canada Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada, the global copyright landscape has changed considerably. While a number of jurisdictions have transplanted, or considered the transplantation of, a fair use or user right regime from […]
Date: February 24, 2026 Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET Registration Institutional repositories are people-powered services that serve as fundamental infrastructure for disseminating open access research across the globe. Regardless of our hosting model or the specific software we use, our staff are the most essential part of our infrastructure. For this reason, institutions have to […]
Date: February 12, 2026 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Registration Join the Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for the first in a new series of informal Coffee Talks—casual, drop-in conversations where members can grab a coffee, connect with colleagues, and compare notes on shared questions and emerging practices. Each session will begin with a guest […]
This month's article: Thelwall, M., & Jiang, X. (2025). Is OpenAlex suitable for research quality evaluation and which citation indicator is best? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(12), 1660–1681. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70020 Date: February 11, 2026 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET The Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice holds several Article Club Meetings each term. These […]
« All Events CommConnect Library Communications Virtual Symposium February 11, 2026 @ 11:00 - 15:30 EST The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Communications Community of Practice is pleased to invite you to its first-ever, free half-day virtual symposium, CommConnect. This inaugural event brings together communications professionals working in academic and research libraries across Canada to […]
Date: February 5, 2026 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Registration The Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice invites you to its February community call on the topic of trust, mistrust, and manipulation of open science research. We must confront some uncomfortable situations. Openness does not necessarily equate to trust, and the ideals of open research do […]
Date: February 2, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET Registration Join us for an inside look at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Zero Textbook Cost program shared by Amanda Grey, Open Education Strategist. Whether you are just beginning to explore ZTC possibilities, or are supporting an existing ZTC program, this session will offer insights and collaborative […]
« All Events Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop December 15, 2025 - December 16, 2025 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), together with University of Ottawa, Library and Archives Canada, and Carleton University, are pleased to offer ARL/CNI’s Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop. This is the first Futurescape […]
