Originally published on the FRQ website on December 20, 2022
The Fonds de recherche du Québec are proud to announce that they are joining ORCID-CA, the Canadian consortium established to support the integration of ORCID identifiers in research-related information systems.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) are pleased to announce a new transformative open access publishing agreement that offers unlimited open access publishing in five CSP journals, and a 25 per cent discount on article processing charges (APCs) in 14 additional CSP journals, for corresponding authors from participating CRKN member institutions.
CRKN has signed a two-year, read-and-publish transformative agreement with Wiley. This cost-neutral agreement removes article processing charges (APCs) for authors publishing in Wiley hybrid journals at participating CRKN institutions, and is expected to result in the publication of over 4,000 articles as open access over the period of the agreement. Any corresponding authors affiliated with participating CRKN institutions, with articles accepted for publication in Wiley journals during the term of the agreement, will have their APC waived.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the ORCID-CA Consortium are pleased to announce that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has joined ORCID-CA as a member.
Please note: video recordings of conference presentations are linked throughout the article. All video recordings can be found on the CRKN Vimeo page. Recordings are not available for all sessions.
This year, CRKN took our first step back into in-person events with the hybrid 2022 CRKN Conference.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Board of Directors is very pleased to announce that Larry P. Alford, University Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL), is the 2022 winner of the Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award. The award ceremony to celebrate Mr. Alford’s contributions to the Canadian library community will be held on November 1, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. EDT during CRKN’s in-person conference in Montreal.
On behalf of the Canadian Persistent Identifier Advisory Committee (CPIDAC), CRKN is delighted to announce the findings of our community consultation on the future of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) in Canada. The goal of this initial consultation was to determine our starting point and identify the elements needed to enable the development and implementation of a Canadian National PID Strategy.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Jutras as Chair of its Board of Directors. Mr. Jutras begins his three-year appointment following CRKN’s annual Meeting of the Members on November 2, 2022.
The ORCID-CA and DataCite Canada Consortium Governing Committees, as well as the Canadian Persistent Identifier Advisory Committee (CPIDAC), are delighted to announce funding from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada for the 2022-2023 fiscal year!
CRKN is pleased to announce that approximately 22,000 digitized Canadian maps have been added to the Canadiana Collection in partnership with McGill University Library. In addition to being publicly accessible on Canadiana.ca, the digitized maps will also be preserved in the Canadiana Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR).