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.
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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
About Research Data Management (RDM) at UBC
Explore RDM tems in Open Collections
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Posted in Blog, Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), CANARIE, cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository), Data Management Planning (DMP) Assistant, Dataverse, Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) & National Discovery Service, News, Open Access, Open Collections, open data, Portage Network, research data management, Scholarly Communication, scholarly publishing, University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC) Library | Comments Off on Augmenting the Research Data Management ecosystem in Canada – CANARIE announces $2M funding for the CARL Portage Network
July 24th, 2019 by cIRcle staff | Comments Off on Collaborating together to progress Research Data Management internationally: RDA & COAR

News Release from Research Data Alliance (RDA):
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to strengthen and expand capacities for research data management within the international data repository community.
COAR and RDA have a shared mission to improve access and use of research outputs, leading to better research and new discoveries. As part of this agreement, the organizations intend to coordinate more closely on strategic initiatives of shared interest, regularly exchange information about activities, and conduct joint webinars and events to support common aims.
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About Research Data Management (RDM) at UBC
Explore RDM items in Open Collections
Make your UBC research openly accessible via cIRcle
Posted in Blog, cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository), COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), digital preservation, News, Open Access, Open Collections, open data, RDA (Research Data Alliance), research data management, Scholarly Communication, scholarly publishing, University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC) Library | Comments Off on Collaborating together to progress Research Data Management internationally: RDA & COAR
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
Posted in archivematica, BCcampus, cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository), copyright, Dataverse, Events, Fair Dealing Week, Open Access, open data, Open Education week, Portage, research data management | Comments Off on Open Access, Open Data, Open Education (and newly added cIRcle items) – News Round-Up
July 23rd, 2018 by ssavage | Comments Off on The Tri-Agencies are seeking feedback on their Draft Research Data Management Policy
The three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (the agencies)— have put forward a draft Research Data Management Plan and are currently soliciting feedback from researchers and institutions. According to information on the CIHR website, the proposed policy “aims to support Canadian research excellence by fostering sound digital data management and data stewardship practices.
The draft policy includes suggested requirements related to three primary areas:
1. Institutional data management strategies
2. Researcher data management plans
3. Data deposit”
UBC Library is already very active in providing research data management services and you can learn more about what is already available at: https://researchdata.library.ubc.ca/, or by contacting Eugene Barsky, Research Data Services Librarian.
Individuals interested in providing feedback on the Policy can either respond directly to the Tri-Agencies’ call, or they can submit their feedback to the Office of the Vice President, Research & Innovation via their online form and responses will be consolidated and sent in on behalf of UBC.
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February 15th, 2016 by Karen Ng | Comments Off on Building Research Data Management Services and Infrastructure in Canada and at UBC
Posted in community engagement, Events, ikblc, Library and Information Science, research data management, Science and Engineering, Webcasts | Comments Off on Building Research Data Management Services and Infrastructure in Canada and at UBC