Ink on Our Hands:Plotting the Map of Canada’s

Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem

Ontario Library Association: January 2016

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Kimberly Silk,

Special Projects Officer, IDSE

Canadian Research Knowledge Network

WHAT IS IDSE?

The Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) is an initiative to advance research in Canada by understanding the complexity of the digital landscape and by seeking opportunities to align key stakeholders and providers around a series of shared objectives. The ecosystem combines capabilities and infrastructurebeyond content to seamlessly harness the work of diverse organizations that contribute to digital scholarship.

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THE IDSE FLYWHEEL: INTEGRATION

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IDSE Projects to date:

OA Books & Articles

• Érudit Partnership

• SCOAP3

• Berlin OA

Digital Preservation

• Extend work of Perpetual

Access Task Group

Canadian Documentary Heritage

• LAC-Funded Canadian National Heritage Digitization Index

• Canadiana.org Heritage Collection Project

Commercial eBooks & eJournals

• CRKN License Negotiations

• Model License Task Group

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And more projects….

Tools & Services

• Institutional Mobilization

Tool Kit

• Licensing for Tools

• NISO Membership

• Foreign Exchange Project

• Serials Management

Sub-Committee / KBART

• Journal Value Analytics

Research & Development

• Larivière Research

• Implementing New

Knowledge Environments

(INKE) Partnership

• Proposed research to

explore issues in

Scholarly Communication

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Thank you for listening.

Kimberly Silk

IDSE Special Projects Officer

Canadian Research Knowledge Network

ksilk@crkn.ca