Canadians Need Unfettered Access To Government Publications In Face Of COVID-19 - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-10-03

Summary:

"The Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) are calling on federal and provincial governments to make official publications more accessible to Canadians by assigning a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) to publicly available government information. We see this as a necessary and immediate response to COVID-19 and the appropriate default model for accessing government information...."   

Link:

https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/canadians-need-unfettered-access-to-government-publications-in-face-of-covid-19/

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Date tagged:

10/03/2020, 13:34

Date published:

10/03/2020, 09:34