The Wire Report reports that the Retail Council of Canada is calling on the government to scrap the private copying levy in the aftermath of the CPCC demand to create a levy on memory cards. The CPCC’s David Basskin argues eliminating the levy would “recriminalize making private copies” but that […]
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Search Engine on Lawful Access
Search Engine examines the problems with lawful access in this week’s episode, which features an interview with Micheal Vonn of the BCCLA.
Open Access Journal Growth in Canada: 2/3 of Learned Journals With Some OA
The Canadian Association of Learned Journals has released its annual report on scholarly journal publishing in Canada. The report finds a growing percentage have adopted open access models – 25 percent are fully open access and an additional 39 percent have a “moving wall” for open access (articles become openly […]
What Happened to the CIHR’s Trial Transparency Policy?
In a series of important posts (1, 2, 3, 4), the Social Justice Librarian blog points to changes at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on a trial transparency policy.
Clement Commits to Open Data
New Treasury Board President Tony Clement has said he’s committed to advancing the government’s open data efforts. Clement noted that initaitive is consistent with what he was trying to do as Industry Minister on the digital economy strategy.
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