Abstract:
This report identifies key priorities and ideas from the Canadian Scholarly Communication practitioner community who participated in Advancing Open, a “a unique (and free) opportunity for the Canadian academic library scholarly communication practitioner community to convene and explore refreshed strategies to foster open scholarship (including open access, open data, and open education) in Canada.” This event helped identify practitioner-led directions and solutions
designed to increase the uptake and commitment to open scholarship that will
support a future-ready and competitive Canada where citizens have full access to
their institutions’ world-class scholarly research. In turn, this report has been written
for the scholarly communications community in Canada to a) use as a discussion
instrument with academic library leaders and decision makers and b) strengthen
both vertical and peer-level strategic alignment for advancing open scholarship in
Canada. The report will also help the scholarly communications community set its
own priorities for grassroots action.
