Some of this week's items: Stratford digital program nearly fully subscribed / DuraSpace to Bring Cloud-Based Platform ?Direct-to-Researchers? / Rebelling against Access Copyright / British Research Libraries Say No to ?Big Deal? Serials Packages / Europe lines up hefty science-funding hike

Some of this week's items: Frustrated judge pushes Google digital book deal / Microsoft Wants to Make It Easy for Academics to Analyze ?Big Data? / Amazon announces textbook rentals for the Kindle platform / Libraries Abandon Expensive 'Big Deal' Subscription Packages to Multiple Journals / Recording industry honours Peterborough MP for work on copyright legislation

Some of this week's items: L'innovation dans les provinces canadiennes / Dream big: some modest reforms for Canada's media landscape / A Call to Take Back the Internet from Corporations / Census decision a slow-motion train wreck / To Rebound, RIM Courts the Carriers

Some of this week's items: Canada plays critical role in world's largest scientific initiative - Rôle déterminant du Canada dans la plus ambitieuse initiative scientifique au monde / World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data / OECD Communiqué on principles for Internet policy-making / Suber: Leader of a Leaderless Revolution / Assessing Innovation in Corporate and Government Libraries

Some of this week's items: Canada's oldest movies find safe home in new building / Public libraries fight to stay relevant in digital age / Five Things That University Presses Should Know About Working With Libraries / ACRL Environmental Scan 2010

Some of this week's items: The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009 / Defending your right to Internet access / Le Congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec crée le prix Innovation des services documentaires (bibliothèques et archives) / NRC-CISTI goes portable with launch of mobile website - L'ICIST-CNRC devient portatif avec le lancement de son site Web mobile / British Library makes Google search deal

Some of this week's items: Big data feeding Canadian research innovation - Un afflux de données alimente l'innovation scientifique canadinne / The Apple effect: Calls grow for a shakeup at RIM / McGill University, IBM develop Quebec's most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer cluster / Joy Kirchner named ACRL visiting program officer

Some of this week's items: DataCite Canada pilot participants announced - Annonce des participants au projet pilote de DataCite Canada / PSE groups respond to federal budget / Internet should remain as open as possible - UN expert on freedom of expression / Out of Fear, Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars / What's at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case

Some of this week's items: Activists warn G8 leaders against Web restrictions / Libraries face growing demand for e-books, and complicated rules about using them / Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee Announces 'Beta Sprint' / Financement de la recherche - Les trois fonds québécois conserveront leur autonomie

Some of this week's items: CARL-CRKN Joint Open Access Working Group / Groupe de travail mixte de l?ABRC et du RCDR sur libre accès / New copyright bill to duplicate C-32 / U. of Michigan Copyright Sleuths Start New Project to Investigate Orphan Works / CRKN License Information Module wins 2011 CACUL Innovation Achievement Award / What is the Digital Public Library of America?

Some of this week's items: Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets / China Creates New Agency for Patrolling the Internet / Stratégie numérique: la Commission [Européenne] réaffirme sa volonté de voir appliquer les principes d'un internet ouvert / Digital Agenda: [European] Commission underlines commitment to ensure open internet principles applied in practice / Tory majority gives Ottawa a crack at breaking the digital logjam / Canada slips behind world digital growth

Some of this week's items: L?Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) est heureuse d?annoncer que H. Thomas Hickerson a été nommé président de l?organisme à sa récente assemblée générale annuelle tenue à Montréal (Québec). / L?Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) a désigné Marnie Swanson, University Librarian, University of Victoria, comme lauréate de son Prix en reconnaissance de services éminents à la recherche en bibliothéconomie pour 2011. / M. Onil Dupuis, ancien chargé de recherche principal au Sous-comité des bibliothèques de la Conférence des recteurs et principaux des universités du Québec, a été désigné comme lauréat du Prix du mérite de l?ABRC.

Some of this week's items: La réu­ti­li­sa­tion des don­nées publi­ques : quels défis pour les archi­ves? / Le marché florissant de la censure / New Director of MIT Media Lab Talks of Encouraging Openness / Three parties, three surprises - Major parties agree on key digital policy issues, but diverge in important areas / Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities

Some of this week's items: Call for submissions: CARL Research Grants / Invitation générale : Subventions de recherche de l?ABRC / Le "G8 de l'Internet" aura lieu fin mai à Paris / Internet G8 to be held in Paris on 24-25 May / With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books / Whither the dream of the universal library? / 5 Myths About the 'Information Age'

Some of this week's items: A new twist - securing authors' rights when negotiating content licenses / Nordic and Asian nations connected for growth, says WEF / SCOAP3 Decision-Making meeting / HathiTrust Certified as Trustworthy Repository

Some of this week's items: Liberals First Out With Their Digital Economy Strategy / Supercomputers Let Up on Speed / Digital-age copyright legislation killed again / Statistical Abstract Faces an Untimely Death / HathiTrust/Summon Deal Increases Search Access to In-Copyright Works / A Guide for the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books Settlement / Dramatic Growth of Open Access

Some of this week's items: La justice américaine rejette l'accord entre Google et les éditeurs / NYC judge rejects Google books settlement / The budget contains lots of nuggets for research and innovations, but analysts say they don't add up to much / NRC boss orders scientists to focus on 'market drivers': Less time for pure science has researchers fearing for their jobs / Cornell U. Library Takes a Stand With Journal Vendors: Prices Will Be Made Public / Early Finding of Cal State U. E-Textbook Study: Terms Matter / Canada's open data portal

Some of this week's items: Digital Curation for Preservation / Next census gathering has begun, passed 'point of no return,' says new StatsCan chief / Canadian researchers keeping tabs on biodiversity / Universities to pay Access Copyright the same rates, for now / Les taux payés par les universités à Access Copyright sont maintenus pour le moment / 7 Things you should know about open textbook publishing / The Digital Pileup

Some of this week's items: 3rd Anniversary of the NIH Public Access Policy: Call for Stories / Library Rights Are at Stake in New Supreme Court Copyright Case / AAUP Issues Report on New Business Models for Scholarly Publishing / University Presses Are Urged to Work Together to Survive / As Borders Goes Bankrupt, Academic Presses Worry About Ways to Reach Readers / Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers: Options for ARL Libraries

Some of this week's items: Canada's digital infrastructure extending its reach / L'infrastructure numérique de CANARIE s'élargit; Canadian Supercomputers Assigned their Homework on Global Problems; Collaboration Seeks to Provide Easier Access to E-Books; University enrolment increasing across Canada; Open Textbook Publisher Flat World Knowledge Expands its Presence in Canada; HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations; Discours inaugural du premier ministre du Québec : L'éducation : condition essentielle à la réussite de notre société / Quebec Premier delivers inaugural speech : Education essential to Quebec's success