August 27th, 2019 by cIRcle staff | Comments Off on Augmenting the Research Data Management ecosystem in Canada – CANARIE announces $2M funding for the CARL Portage Network

News Release from CANARIE:
CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital research infrastructure ecosystem supporting research, education and innovation, today announced $2M in funding to support the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Portage Network. CARL Portage is a national, library-based research data management (RDM) network that fosters initiatives to build capacity and to coordinate activities in research data management.
The ability to manage and reuse research data helps accelerate discovery, allows for reproducibility of scientific results, and maximizes return on investment of research funding. Research data management best practices help ensure the accessibility and protection of data during the research lifecycle and beyond, and help meet growing requirements of research ethics and reproducibility, along with evolving funder policies. This funding broadens the functionality of current Portage services and tools and adds capacity to national RDM resources.
Read the full press release
Quick facts about CANAIRE:
- 31,000 – Length in KM of CANARIE’s coast-to-coast ultra-high-speed research and education network
- Nearly 170 – higher education institutions currently participating in the Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
- 46 – percent by which traffic on the CANARIE network has been growing over the past ten years
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March 6th, 2019 by cIRcle staff | Comments Off on Open Access, Open Data, Open Education (and newly added cIRcle items) – News Round-Up

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In the News: Locally, Nationally, and Internationally
Open Access
Balancing the Scales: The Role of Fair Dealing in Canada
(Above webcast was part of Fair Dealing Week – February 25–March 1, 2019)
New checklist helps detect deceptive publishers
(Above news release by the University of Toronto)
We applaud the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new open-access policy—and here’s what remains to be done
(Above news release by the Wikimedia Foundation)
Open Data
Data verse-Archivematica Integration Now Available for Testing
(Above news release from the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL))
Developing a Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality
(Above podcast from EDUCAUSE Review)
New Portage Training Resources Available
(Above news release by the Portage Training Expert Group, launched by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL))
Open Education
Open Education Week (March 4-8, 2019)
(A global event held annually to recognize and showcase open education in teaching and learning and excellence in education)
Open in Action 2019
(Above BCcampus event held on March 6, 2019 featuring speakers from UBC, BCIT, SFU, KPU and BCcampus)
Student Savings at Scale: LibreTexts
(Above impact story about open textbooks by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition))
Recently added items to cIRcle:
Database of Religious History collection:
The Arch of Constantine
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism (Tang Tantrism)
Delphi
Medieval Śrīvaiṣṇavism
Roman Divination
Roman Imperial Cult
UBC Library and Archives collection:
Federated Geospatial Data Discovery for Canada: Geodisy
Positive Space Working Group Final Report
UBC Lectures, Seminars, and Symposia collection:
The Legacy of Bambule (1970): On the Perils of the Memory Culture of the German 68 Movement
The Metaphysics of Data Capital
UBC Faculty Research and Publications collection:
Blending integrated knowledge translation with global health governance: an approach for advancing action on a wicked problem
Extent, trends, and determinants of controller/reliever balance in mild asthma: a 14-year population-based study
Policy review on the management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia by community health workers in Mozambique
Improving microservice-based applications with runtime placement adaptation
Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective
UBC Press collection:
The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing [Book Supplement]
Undergraduate research collection:
The Potential Effects of Tethered-Based Forest Harvesting Systems on Soil Disturbance in Coastal British Columbia
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