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Avec les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, nous avons créé une collection en accès libre qui s’intitule « Parcours numériques » [1] et dont les trois premières publications sont sorties en 2014. La collection est basée sur l’idée qu’il doit y...

Cinq ans, ça se fête! Pour marquer les cinq ans de libre accès à l’Université d’Ottawa – « la première université au Canada à adopter un programme complet de mesures favorisant le libre accès » – les Presses et la Bibliothèque de l’Université d...

Many of our readers will already be familiar with the Federation’s recent initiative to develop an OA policy for its Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). The ASPP is a competitive funding program that supports the publication and...

This post originally appeared on ScienceOpen.com on September 15, 2014. The ScienceOpen team are pleased to announce some changes to facilitate the spread of Open Access publishing beyond the sciences, its traditional strong-hold. To encourage those...

Each year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance asks Canadians to identify their priorities for the upcoming federal budget. In response, the Federation puts forward recommendations pertaining to the social science and humanities...

By Karen Diepeveen The last few years have seen a lot of buzz around Open Access: its benefits, challenges, opportunities and obstacles. The granting councils have begun exploring Open Access for journals. For the Federation for the Humanities and...

Samara Bissonnette In " Open Access and the future of academic publishing", the second installment of a three part debate series on copyright and the modern academic, Glen Rollan and Michale Geist attacked the highly controversial academic subject of...

Karen Diepeveen, Policy Analyst, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The issue of open access and research dissemination is one that sparks many conversations across our fields. What is the future of scholarly work in this digital age...