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

Items tagged with oa.carl in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) 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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Tags:

oa.recommendations oa.psi oa.licensing oa.libre oa.humanitarian oa.government oa.data oa.cfla oa.carl oa.advocacy recommendations government canada

Date tagged:

10/03/2020, 13:34

Date published:

10/03/2020, 09:34