Program
All session times are listed in Eastern Time (ET).
Conference Sessions
May 13, 2025
Out of 118 elements on the planet, nitrogen is the most abundant. It is crucial for the existence of life on our planet, yet plants can’t use it in its most abundant form. Bacteria play a crucial role by fixing nitrogen into an available form for plants. Nearly 3 million research papers are
In the pursuit of promoting transparency, collaboration, and accessibility of research outputs that benefit science and society, the integration of open science practices is paramount, and institutions play a key role. This presentation delves into the eight strategic recommendations for advancing
May 13, 2025
2:00pm
The province of Saskatchewan is home to 75 First Nations, covered by multiple treaties, and is the Homeland of the Métis. The University of Saskatchewan (USask) operates on Treaty 6 Territory and the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) holds a significant volume of archival materials
The Research Organization Registry (ROR), launched in late 2019, addresses a critical gap in the scholarly infrastructure by enhancing the network of open persistent identifiers used to track and discover research outputs. The academic community requires reliable ways to answer key questions about
May 13, 2025
2:45pm
Created in June 2024, with five-year funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), the Circé Network aims to provide concrete support to the ecosystem of French-language scholarly journals in Quebec in its transition to Diamond open access, an immediate open access model without any author or
FishSounds (fishsounds.net) is a growing online portal that makes the science of fish sonifery, or sound production, openly available and easy to access. The website compiles information on fish species and their habitats, summaries of academic publications that studied sound production in fishes
May 13, 2025
3:30pm
This presentation explores how Internet Archive Canada (IAC) and its partners advance open knowledge and sustainable futures through collaborative digital preservation. We'll discuss IAC's partnerships with Canadian institutions, including the Canadian Government Information Digital Preservation
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
12:00pm
Granting agencies play a key role in advancing sustainable open access (OA) scholarship globally and in Canada. Plan S, a European initiative by cOAlition S, has catalyzed global shifts towards immediate OA. Its relevance to Canada grew significantly in 2022 when Québec’s granting agency, Fonds de
This presentation will describe the first 18 months of the McGill University Libraries' experience with a full-time position focusing on equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility (EDIA), and reconciliation, with the goal of embedding these values into the Libraries services, collections, spaces
The Khama III Memorial Museum and University of Toronto Libraries have entered into an innovative partnership to digitize an exceptional collection of rare archival material in Botswana, the Khama family papers. This project is important because it supports a valuable African institution in their
May 14, 2025
1:30pm
In March 2024, the Université Laval Library was tasked with managing ROR IDs within the institution. Beyond managing the institution’s ROR ID, the Library also supports qualifying research groups in creating their own ROR IDs, enabling them to better assess their publication output. This
May 14, 2025
1:45pm
The Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS), founded in 1979, is dedicated to facilitating information exchange, supporting ongoing education, and promoting the peaceful development and application of nuclear science and technology. Since its inception, the CNS has held regular conferences and produced
Open Monograph Press (OMP) is an open source tool developed by PKP that enables a global community of users to publish scholarly books, including monographs, edited volumes and other kinds of long-form scholarship. While crucial to our collective knowledge, book publishing has seen a slower uptake
May 14, 2025
2:30pm
As a follow up to the recent study of CRKN member libraries collections in Indigenous languages presented at this conference last year by Jurczyk & Bennett, University of Toronto Libraries’ Indigenous Metadata Working Group is undertaking a project to refine the discoverability and accessibility of
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Communities of Practice (CoPs) are vital spaces where Canadian research library professionals come together to collaborate, innovate, and share knowledge. This session will introduce three of CARL’s CoPs—Canadian Repositories, Library Publishing
May 14, 2025
3:30pm
ARCHIVESCANADA.CA, the national finding aid network, was once envisioned as a cornerstone for democratizing online access to Canadian archives. On October 20, 2001, the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) launched the ARCHIVESCANADA.CA database, initially containing profiles for 800 archival
May 14, 2025
4:00pm
This panel considers the current priorities and potential future opportunities for humanities scholars working with Indigenous data. Specifically, we are interested in highlighting ways of increasing the accessibility and discoverability of data associated with The People and the Text (TPatT), a
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
12:30pm
Recognizing that scholarly journals and the libraries that support them are undergoing profound shifts in their environments and are facing increasingly complex challenges with the shift toward immediate open access and the adoption of related standards and best practices for persistent identifiers
May 15, 2025
2:30pm
The Census of Canada is a key data source available to Canadians to support both contemporary and historical research. However, much of the historical census data in Canada is scattered across various collections including archival census returns, print census volumes, maps, data tables, and born
With the rise of publicly available generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, librarians have been working to understand their impact on library-licensed e-resources while ensuring users receive accurate, timely guidance on privacy, intellectual property and other usage considerations. In
