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national and international levels, to contribute to the development of interoperable standards for
aggregation of OA repository content, to promote increased uptake of researcher archiving practices
with as little burden as possible, and to foster wider funder and institutional open access mandates 19 .
Open access in Canada
Heather Morrison (Librarian and PhD candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication)
tracks, on a quarterly basis, the growth of open access mandates and practices in Canada in her blog The
Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics 20 . Kathleen Shearer (CARL, Research Associate) conducted an
environmental scan of the Canadian academic publishing landscape in January‐February 2010. The study
identifies emerging models of peer‐reviewed scholarly publishing in Canada, with a particular focus on
open access and library‐publisher collaborations. The methodology involved a review of the literature
and interviews with stakeholders in the Canadian academic publishing community 21 .
With respects to institutional mandates/policies and open digital repositories, Canadian universities
have made great progress in recent years; over fifty universities and research institutions have a
repository, and there are currently 12 mandates in place which are mostly funder and university
departmental mandates. On April 22, 2010, Concordia University faculty passed a landmark Senate
Resolution on Open Access that requires all of its faculty and students to make their peer‐reviewed
research and creative output freely accessible via the internet. Concordia is the first major university in
Canada where faculty overwhelmingly supports a concerted effort to make the full results of their
research universally available to the world in the university’s open digital Spectrum Research
Repository. 22
Some exemplary open access programmes, developed by libraries in collaboration with faculty and
university administrations, have already been implemented at the University of Calgary, the University
of Ottawa, and Simon Fraser University.
The Center for Scholarly Communication, launched on April 1, 2010, at the University of Calgary, blends
a full suite of publishing services to support the life cycle of research 23 . The University of Calgary Press
will play a leading role in the Centre, offering peer‐reviewed Open Access, eBooks and print‐on‐demand
publishing services. The Open Access Authors’ Fund, the first of its kind in Canada, provides funding for
authors publishing their research in hybrid or open access journals. Digitization and preservation
services, as well as copyright consultation services, support new approaches to scholarly
communication.
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Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) http://coar‐repositories.org/
20
Heather Morrison, Dramatic Growth of Open Access, March 31, 2010, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/dramatic‐growth‐of‐open‐access‐march‐31.html
21
Kathleen Shearer, A Review of Emerging Models in Canadian Academic Publishing, University of British Columbia
Library https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/24008
22
Concordia University Opens its Research Findings to the World, April 22, 2010
http://mediarelations.concordia.ca/pressreleases/archives/2010/04/concordia_university_opens_its.php
23
Centre for Scholarly Communication (University of Calgary)
http://wcmprod2.ucalgary.ca/scholarlycommunication/
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