scholarly journals The concentration of journal use in Canadian universities

Author(s):  
Philippe Mongeon ◽  
Antoine Archambault ◽  
Vincent Larivière

This paper presents the results of an analysis of scholarly journal usage in 22 Canadian universities, sponsored by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Usage is assessed using citation data, usage data (downloads), as well as survey data. The results show a high concentration of journal usage in Canadian universities and a moderate correlation between the indicators used. We also find a significant overlap between the overall and “core” journal collections of universities.Cet article présente les résultats d'une analyse de l'utilisation des revues savantes dans 22 universités canadiennes, soutenue par le Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR). L'utilisation est évaluée en utilisant des données de citation, des données d'utilisation (téléchargements), ainsi que des données d'enquête. Les résultats montrent une forte concentration de l'utilisation des revues dans les universités canadiennes et une corrélation modérée entre les indicateurs utilisés. Nous constatons également un chevauchement important entre les collections de revues globales et «de base» entre les universités.

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-72 ◽  

AbstractJohn Eaton from the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, describes an important Canadian knowledge initiative within the academic library community relating to acquisition of digital resources.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Andrée Rathemacher ◽  
Noah Levin ◽  
Stephanie Doellinger ◽  
Robert Heaton ◽  
Jason Friedman ◽  
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During the “NISO update” session at the NISO Plus 2021 conference, which took place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the KBART (Knowledge Base and Related Tools) Standing Committee presented their plans and work toward KBART Phase III, a revision of the KBART Recommended Practice. In an interactive breakout session, they sought input from attendees on how KBART is being used and what new content types it should support. Presenters from the KBART Standing Committee were Noah Levin (Independent Professional), Stephanie Doellinger (OCLC, Inc.), Robert Heaton (Utah State University), and Andrée Rathemacher (University of Rhode Island). Assisting them in preparing the presentation were Jason Friedman (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), Sheri Meares (EBSCO Information Services), Benjamin Johnson (ProQuest), Elif Eryilmaz-Sigwarth (Springer Nature), and Nettie Lagace (NISO).


Author(s):  
Jonathan Bengtson ◽  
Carol Shepstone

This article explores the background and process that led to the merger of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network / Réseau Canadien de deocumentation pour la recherceh and Canadiana.org in 2018.  Seizing a moment of opportunity in a rapidly shifting digital research landscape, the two organizations “spun in” to each other in order to leverage their complementary mandates and overlapping memberships.  The new merged organization is now better positioned to meet the challenges of collaborative work in research and Canadian heritage content acquisition and access.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Silk

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is a consortia of Canadian university libraries dedicated to expanding digital content for the academic research enterprise in Canada. Two themes in the CRKN strategic plan are to 1) collaborate to advance scholarship, and 2) engage members and stakeholders. The Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) project addresses these themes by mapping activities in the Canadian digital scholarship landscape, with a view to understanding the complexity of the landscape, and identifying opportunities to align key stakeholders and providers around a series of shared objectives. This article describes the IDSE project, and how the mapping exercise will provide a lens through which to identify opportunities for stakeholders to coordinate efforts and collaborate on tools, services, programs, and projects.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Appavoo ◽  
Sabina Pagotto

Historically, researchers have relied on libraries solely for access to research literature. But in the digital age, libraries are taking on new roles within the academic environment. This article discusses the shifting relationship between academic libraries and scholarly communication as seen through the lens of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN); from the traditional role of the academic library as a source of funding and access for scholarly communication to the emerging role of the academic library as an active participant in the content creation process, and even as the foundation for the construction of a new digital content infrastructure.


Author(s):  
Carole Sinou ◽  
Anne Bruneau ◽  
Deborah L Paul ◽  
Mary Kennedy

Canadensys is an associate GBIF node in Canada, officially established as a node in 2014, but publishing data on GBIF since 2011. Since then, Canadensys has grown from nine institutions to a network of nearly 25 institutions that publish biodiversity data and we have migrated from an in-house explorer, to a Living Atlases (LA) framework. Canadensys publishes data curated or collected by Canadian universities, museums, as well as municipalities and non govermental organizations (NGOs). Establishing a new network can be challenging, but several resources and programs exist to help node managers and node participants initiate the publication process. Keeping an established network alive while continuing to grow and to develop new methods and technologies is also an important challenge, especially in a context where institutions are geographically separated across large distances, and where funds are scarce or mostly oriented towards highly innovative projects. With the aim to reach both established and new participants across Canada and from adjacent regions in the USA, and in order to help them to familiarize themselves with the new framework based on LA, we organized three workshops on data publication and data usage. Partially funded through a GBIF CESP project, this series of workshops was developed in partnership with international, regional and national partners such as iDigBio, OBIS Canada and GBIF Spain. The workshops helped new participants prepare and publish data, and allowed established publishers to enrich and update their resources on Canadensys and GBIF. The project also highlighted some of the challenges our network is facing, such as funding, infrastructure, human resources, and communication. Feedback from participants shows that the workshops were successfull in terms of capacity enhancement, giving knowledge and tools to data manager in order to prepare and publish standardize data, as well as to transfer that knowledge in their respective institutions. All materials and documentation developed during this project will be made available on Canadensys, allowing everyone interested to follow the curriculum. Sharing our experience will be useful for other nodes wanting to introduce the LA framework to their users and to enhance capacities in the network.


Author(s):  
David R. Scott ◽  
Nicole Eva

Through 2015 and into 2016, Canadian academic libraries’ collections budgets were severely strained due to the steady decline of the CAD/USD exchange rate. As most subscription fees for electronic resources (e-resources) are billed in US dollars, the falling value of the Canadian dollar significantly reduced libraries’ purchasing power. This study is based on a survey of the English-speaking member institutions of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a Canadian collections consortium, carried out to determine the impact of the poor exchange rate on collections development and how libraries are coping with new budgetary pressures. Librarians from 33 universities provided survey responses. Of these, 22 participated in telephone interviews to further discuss concerns and ideas regarding the current crisis. The study finds that all participant libraries have taken actions to address the budgetary shortfall, including cancelling serial and database subscriptions, negotiating lower costs with vendors, purchasing fewer monographs, and soliciting additional funding from their institutions. While the financial strain resulting from exchange rate fluctuations is indeed a significant problem for which solutions should be sought, several respondents stressed that it only exacerbates the ongoing inflation of e-resource subscriptions. This deeper and enduring issue, which is expected to outlast the present exchange rate crisis, is enabled by an inherently flawed scholarly publishing system. Thus, librarians engaged in discussions with their wider academic communities concerning collections budgets should not focus exclusively on the exchange rate but should leverage the opportunity to explore alternatives to the current scholarly communication model. If solutions exist, they will likely only be achieved through the support of faculty and university administrators, as well as cooperation among post-secondary institutions and library consortia. Au cours de l’année 2015 et au début 2016, les budgets des collections des bibliothèques universitaires canadiennes ont connu d’importantes restrictions en partie causées par la baisse du dollar canadien face au dollar américain. La plupart des frais d’abonnements aux ressources électroniques sont en dollar américain ce qui signifie que le pouvoir d’achat des bibliothèques a été significativement réduit face à la dévalorisation du dollar canadien. Cette étude utilise un sondage auprès des établissements anglophones qui sont membres du Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR), un consortium canadien pour les collections, afin de mieux connaître l’impact du faible taux de change sur le développement des collections et sur la façon dont les bibliothèques s’adaptent à de nouvelles pressions budgétaires. Des bibliothécaires de 33 universités ont répondu au sondage. Parmi ceux-ci, 22 ont participé à des entrevues téléphoniques pour discuter davantage de préoccupations et d’idées concernant la crise actuelle. L’étude montre que toutes les bibliothèques participantes ont pris des mesures pour contrer l’insuffisance budgétaire incluant l’annulation d’abonnements de périodiques et de bases de données, la négociation de coûts inférieurs avec les fournisseurs, l’achat de moins de livres ainsi que la sollicitation de financement additionnel auprès de leur institution. Quoique ce stress financier causé par les fluctuations du taux de change représente un sérieux problème pour lequel il faut trouver des solutions, plusieurs répondants ont réitéré que cette réalité ne fait qu’aggraver l’inflation continue des abonnements aux ressources électroniques. Cet enjeu sérieux et persistant, qui risque de perdurer au-delà la crise du taux d’échange actuel, est le résultat d’un système de communication savante défaillant. Les bibliothécaires qui discutent avec leur communauté universitaire au sujet des budgets de collections ne devraient pas se concentrer uniquement sur le taux de change mais devraient en profiter pour explorer des alternatives au modèle de communication savante actuel. Si des solutions existent, elles se réaliseront seulement avec l’appui des professeurs et des administrateurs ainsi qu’avec la coopération entre les établissements postsecondaires et les consortiums des bibliothèques.


2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon Greyson ◽  
Kumiko Vézina ◽  
Heather Morrison ◽  
Donald Taylor ◽  
Charlyn Black

The advent of policies at research-funding organizations requiring grantees to make their funded research openly accessible alters the life cycle of scholarly research. This survey-based study explores the approaches that libraries and research administration offices at the major Canadian universities are employing to support the research-production cycle in an open access era and, in particular, to support researcher adherence to funder open-access requirements. Responses from 21 universities indicated that librarians feel a strong sense of mandate to carry out open access-related activities and provide research supports, while research administrators have a lower sense of mandate and awareness and instead focus largely on assisting researchers with securing grant funding. Canadian research universities already contain infrastructure that could be leveraged to support open access, but maximizing these opportunities requires that research administration offices and university libraries work together more synergistically than they have done traditionally.  


Author(s):  
Marco Bettoni

In this chapter we present a design for an e-collaboration environment and its implementation with MOODLE within the context of a research knowledge network at our university. In the first part, after a short introduction of our constructivist knowledge model, we present our idea of what we call a “design for meaning”, explaining its theoretical foundation and developing its conceptual features. In the second part we show how we have implemented this concept with Moodle for supporting a community-based knowledge network of researchers at our university and reflect on the experiences that we have collected during this 3 years pilot project.


2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorie Kloda ◽  
Karen Nicholson

The incidence of student plagiarism at Canadian universities and colleges is cause for concern. As a result, Canadian universities are increasingly using text-matching software such as Turnitin to address the problem of cut-and-paste plagiarism. An exploratory survey was conducted at Canadian research-intensive universities subscribing to Turnitin to examine the role of librarians in educating students and faculty about academic integrity. Results indicate that librarians at these institutions are actively involved in promoting academic integrity and deterring plagiarism. At most institutions surveyed, discussions of academic integrity and the ethical use of information are included in library workshops and library instructional materials. These results, while preliminary, are an important first step to encourage libraries to consider their role within universities for promoting academic integrity. This is a revised version of a paper presented at LILAC 2005: Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference, Imperial College, London, April 4-6, 2005.


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