Canadiana.org (Canadiana) and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), two organizations deeply rooted in digital information and in providing access to content across Canada, are jointly exploring strengthening their relationship and the potential of a combined organizational structure.
CRKN is pleased to announce that, with support from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, eleven CRKN member institutions will be receiving a small grant to facilitate their participation in the Knowledge Unlatched project. The purpose of this funding is to encourage Canadian institutions to contribute to this…
CRKN has been a member of Project COUNTER, “a non-profit organization supported by a global community of library, publisher and vendor members, who contribute to the development of the Code of Practice through working groups and outreach” since 2015. "COUNTER provides the Code of Practice that enables publishers and vendors to report usage of…
CRKN has been a member of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) since 2015. NISO is a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in our changing and ever-more digital environment.…
Since 2014, Érudit and CRKN members have worked to create a collaborative partnership, one which creates a framework for a new relationship between journals and libraries, and helps to provide financial support to Canadian journals during the transition to a fully open access model.
- Vision
Knowledge is accessible to all.
MissionTogether, we empower Canada by creating pathways to trusted knowledge.
AboutFor our member organizations and the diverse communities they serve, CRKN empowers researchers, educators, and society with greater access to the world’s research and Canada’s preserved documentary heritage, now…
CRKN works on behalf of its members to actively develop partnerships and joint ventures to advance its objective of collaborating to advance digital scholarship. Through our collaborations with librarians, researchers, administrators, funders, publishers and other stakeholders in the research community, CRKN connects associations, organizations…
SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access in Particle Physics Publishing) is an international open access initiative that was officially launched on January 1, 2014. Convened at CERN in Switzerland, this is the largest scale global open access initiative ever built, involving an international collaboration of over one thousand libraries,…