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

Want to make your UBC research openly accessible? Visit cIRcle

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

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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

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.