Presented at the OLA Super Conference, January 2016 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 infrastructure beyond content t seamlessly harness the work of diverse organizations that contribute to digital scholarship.

1. 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

2. 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 infrastructure
beyond content to seamlessly
harness the work of diverse
organizations that contribute to
digital scholarship.
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3. THE IDSE FLYWHEEL: INTEGRATION
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5. 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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6. 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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8. Thank you for listening.
Kimberly Silk
IDSE Special Projects Officer
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
ksilk@crkn.ca