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CARL issues new position paper: Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing

February 25, 2016. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has issued a new position paper, Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing, authored by Martha Whitehead and Brian Owen. The […]

Canadian Libraries’ Response to Chapter 18 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

                           The Canadian Library Association, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council have jointly […]

CARL Member Libraries Celebrate Fair Dealing Week

February 22-26 is Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week. To mark this event, CARL member libraries have planned various activities and initiatives to increase their campus communities’ understanding of the […]

Falling Canadian dollar raises longstanding issue of journal costs

OTTAWA, February 3, 2016 – Research libraries in universities across the country are experiencing severe budget pressures owing to the weakening Canadian dollar combined with the extraordinarily high costs of […]

Compute Canada and CARL Join Forces to Build a National Research Data Platform

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, January 27, 2016 — Compute Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced today that they will collaborate to build a scalable national platform for research […]

CARL Receives DHCP Funding from Library and Archives Canada

OTTAWA, December 16, 2015 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to announce that its project, The Student Voice, will receive funding through the Documentary Heritage Communities […]

2015 Research in Librarianship Grants Announced

OTTAWA, December 14, 2015 – The CARL Research Libraries Committee is pleased to announce the winners for this year’s competition in the Research in Librarianship Grant fund. The CARL Research in […]

Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access

CARL, along with a number of other North American organizations have signed on to this open statement supporting the editors and editorial board of Lingua protesting Elsevier’s practices with respect […]

CARL applauds the decision to restore the mandatory long-form census

Ottawa, November 6, 2015 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) applauds the Government of Canada’s decision to restore the mandatory long-form census. The data obtained through the mandatory […]

CARL’s Portage announces the launch of DMP Assistant

OTTAWA, October 21, 2015 – As part of its Portage initiative, CARL is pleased to announce the launch of DMP Assistant. This national, open, bilingual data management planning tool will […]