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CRKN is sharing a call for nominations for this year’s Conference Planning Committee (CPC).
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Monograph Strategies During & After the Pandemic in Canada
Thursday, February 11, 2021 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is inviting proposals for a consultant with expertise in heritage digitization and preservation strategy, services, and pricing. The deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to Friday, January 29, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. ET.
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Ottawa, ON and San Francisco, CA — The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced an agreement for CRKN members to participate in PLOS’ Community Action Publishing (CAP) program, a new collective action publishing model from PLOS, enabling 19 participating CRKN institutions to publish fee-free in PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology.
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The 2020 CRKN Virtual Conference, held from October 1 to 29, 2020, was a resounding success amid the unusual and challenging circumstances facing our community this year. Originally intended as an in-person event in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the conference shifted to a virtual environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sessions were held on afternoons twice weekly to accommodate changing work and life patterns this year, and all presentations were conducted remotely.
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is inviting proposals for a consultant with expertise in heritage digitization and preservation strategy, services, and pricing.
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Ottawa, ON, and Baltimore, MD, December 9, 2020: The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) membership to all CRKN institutional members, as well as associate members participating in CRKN’s content licensing program.
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CRKN and the ORCID-CA Consortium are pleased to announce that CARL Portage has joined ORCID-CA as its 38th member.
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) are pleased to announce that the NHDS Steering Committee has voted to officially transfer the NHDS Secretariat to CRKN. The vote was made at the September 23, 2020 meeting of the NHDS Steering Committee, and the transfer takes effect immediately.
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is pleased to share this Statement on the Economic Impact of COVID-19. This statement, written on behalf of the Canadian regional and national academic library consortia, and the individual libraries they represent, describes the unprecedented challenges and uncertainty facing Canadian post-secondary institutions. These challenges have resulted from unsustainable pricing and access restrictions and limitations, which have been augmented by the ongoing and highly unpredictable effects of COVID-19.