CRKN's Knowledge Base Entitlements Sub-Committee (KBESC) is happy to announce that the entitlements lists (in KBART format) for CRKN-licensed content have been updated and distributed for 2022. There are updates on the following:
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The CRKN Board of Directors seeks nominations for the inaugural CRKN Researcher Council who will provide advice and recommendations to CRKN as we prepare a large-scale, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary funding application for the Canada Foundation for Innovation - Innovation Fund (CFI IF).
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Since 2018, following the merger with Canadiana, CRKN has maintained two offices in Ottawa. The lease on our Holland Ave. office expires at the end of this month, March 31, 2022, and the decision was made last year not to renew the lease, but rather to consolidate into our Wellington St. office in the Library and Archives Canada building.
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CRKN is sharing a call for nominations for the Canadiana Content Sub-Committee (CCSC).
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has negotiated a cost-neutral transformative read-and-publish agreement with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). This agreement includes unlimited reading and open access publishing in most IOPP hybrid and gold journals at no charge to authors affiliated with participating CRKN institutions. The agreement also allows for perpetual access rights to IOPP journals included in the agreement.
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has negotiated a transformative read and publish agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP). This cost-neutral agreement includes unlimited reading and publishing at no charge to authors affiliated with participating institutions in nearly 400 CUP journals, including all hybrid and gold open access journals.
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CRKN has completed the first step in decolonizing Canadiana collection metadata by replacing the subject heading “Indians of North America” with “Indigenous peoples.”
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CRKN is sharing a call for nominations for this year’s Conference Planning Committee (CPC).
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CRKN is very pleased to share that Azard Kallan (CPA, CGA) has joined the management team as Director, Finance and Administration, beginning on January 10, 2022.
With over 20 years of experience leading financial systems and providing operational and administrative oversight, Azard brings significant leadership experience in finance, accounting, human resources, and IT management from both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.
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CRKN and the ORCID-CA Consortium are pleased to welcome Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Vancouver Island University (VIU) as the newest members of ORCID-CA.