Save the date:
Nov 24th (evening) and all day Nov 25th
Annual Boot Camp of the Canadian Association of Learned Journal is fast approaching. This year it will be held at the UofT on Nov 24th (evening) and all day Nov 25th.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation announced the funding of 7 national cyberinfrastructures, including the Open Science SSH Cyberinfrastructure under the direction of Vincent Larivière, holder of the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication of Université de Montréal and Érudit scientific director.
At our annual meeting this year we discussed the possibility of creating a buying consortium for services. Under this arrangement CALJ members could band together, create an RFP of a large volume of work to increase the contract value to service providers, leading to lower pricing than what we would see as individual journals. We are now at the point where we want to gather information from the whole membership to determine the level of interest in this project and which services you’d benefit from most if they were pooled.
We have now completed the transfer of our web site and listserv from Athabasca University Press to our own system. We want to thank AUP for over 10 years of generous support to CALJ-ACRS and academic publishing.
We also have set up a Twitter Account and a Facebook page for CALJ-ACRS that we ask you to check out and participate in. You can find links on the web site.
A recent white paper written on behalf of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing, provides an overview of scholarly communication in Canada from the perspective of research libraries. The Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ), the national organization who represents Canadian journals and their publishers, was sent a copy of this report only after it was finalized.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has issued a new white paper, Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing, authored by Martha Whitehead and Brian Owen.
The CALJ Board of Directors has adopted a document to provide guidance on Open Access Policies in order to assist member journals in developing an easily discoverable open access policy that meets the Tri-Agency requirements, maximizes the public dissemination of knowledge and takes into account journal sustainability.
Canadian writers, visual artists, publishers and creator organizations have until February 16, 2016 to send in an application to the Access Copyright Foundation for a Marian Hebb research grant.
We are getting geared up for the CALJ Conference to be held May 28 & 29th 2016 at the University of Calgary. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend.
We are also looking for volunteers to assist to organize the sessions. Your input means a conference that meets your needs!
http://congress2016.ca/program/events/98-calj
