Notices by Joshua Chalifour (jc@scholar.social)

Next week the Concordia University Library has a great line-up of events for #OpenAccessWeek. I'm offering a session on Using and Sharing #OpenAccess Content with #CreativeCommons Licenses. Most of our events are open to everyone (in Montreal): https://library.concordia.ca/research/open-access/open-access-week.php spread the word and join us!

If you're in a teaching role (or other academic sort of position) beware of M-Journal citations. It's a fake article generator based on Wikipedia content. It's designed to give a realistic appearance. The link is: https://m-journal.org and there is an article about it here https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/wikipedia-fake-academic-journal

Many good points on #copyright reform supporting Canadian innovation in this article (especially on digital locks)! Also concerning and relevant (though not mentioned) there's the issue of the new Canadian change to timeframe for works entering the #PublicDomain due to US pressure in the new NAFTA.

https://www.cigionline.org/articles/how-copyright-reform-could-support-canadas-supercluster-investment

University of California couldn't get Elsevier to agree to universal #OpenAccess to UC research so they're not renewing their contracts with Elsevier. Fascinated to see How this plays out. (go bears) https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/elsevier-outcome

For #FairDealingWeek there is a petition to the Canadian government initiated by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) to prevent a bad reworking of copyright. http://copyright.caut.ca/petition — please spread the word!

Confessing an irrational editing hang-up: When I replace a word or phrase that I've typed, I intentionally do not delete letters that will be used in the new word/phrase even though I could type more quickly if I did. I feel sorry for them every time I delete them. I feel sorry for their siblings that I've deleted. I usually write too much so I have to delete a lot. There, got that off my chest.

#1Lib1Ref started on the 15th and goes until the 5th of February. It's a time when #librarians focus some attention on improving/augmenting #Wikipedia references. Info here http://1lib1ref.org – :wiki: #CitationNeeded

This is nice! It looks like the Government of Canada's Directive on the Management of Information Technology now says "Where possible, use open standards and open source software first" and goes on into detail with more guidance. I'm fully in favour of this sort of thinking, especially since it's a more free and sustainable approach https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=15249 #GCdigital #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@sevensixfive I like Zotero for managing the files also. I have a direct link between the file, the citation, and any sorts of notes, tags, links, or other info I associate with that particular reference. I'm a big fan of having it sync the files with a cloud storage provider. That lets me have the same set of files accessible from my home & work computers (+ backed up in the cloud). I'd recommend using the pcloud.com webdav service for this: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_services