Central licensing and invoicing through the consortium launches with twenty-eight libraries electing to participate.
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Registration for the 2021 CRKN Virtual Conference: Shifting the Future is now open!
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CRKN and the ORCID-CA Consortium are pleased to welcome Érudit to ORCID-CA. By becoming a member of ORCID-CA, Érudit aims to promote the use of ORCID identifiers among its community and integrate the ORCID unique and persistent identifier registry into its platform. The Érudit.org platform is now the main access point for research in the humanities and social sciences in Canada. Its collections, mostly open access, are consulted worldwide by both academic researchers and the general public.
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2021 CRKN Conference, which will be held virtually from October 13 to 21, 2021.
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CRKN is excited to announce the dates for the 2021 CRKN Conference, which will be taking place virtually from October 13 to 21, 2021.
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The ORCID-CA Governing Committee is delighted to share that the ORCID-CA program has received funding from NDRIO (via Portage) that will cover the ORCID-CA Member Support Fee for the 2021-2022 license year.
ORCID-CA membership fees are comprised of two elements totalling roughly CAD 8,500:
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Date: Thursday, June 17, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET (9:00-10:00 a.m. PT)
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has signed an Expression of Interest for the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) Initiative, a global initiative led by the Max Planck Digital Library with the goal of unlocking scholarly journals from subscription publishing systems and transitioning them towards open access models.
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Members of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) set bold negotiation objectives for the 2020 renewal with Elsevier: significantly reduce costs, increase open access, and ensure transparency of the agreement. After eleven months of negotiating, CRKN’s Content Strategy Committee (CSC) is announcing a renewal of the Elsevier ScienceDirect license, which includes:
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CRKN's Knowledge Base Entitlements Sub-Committee (KBESC) is happy to announce that the entitlements lists (in KBART format) for CRKN-licensed content have been updated and distributed for 2021. There are a few other updates to share as well, on the following items: