Canadian Internet use and e-commerce

Statistics Canada has recently released data on Internet use and online commerce.  Please contact us if you would like assistance accessing related CAMSIM tables.

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New copyright legislation

The Copyright Modernization Act  was reintroduced in the House of Commons on September 29, 2011.  A backgrounder on the legislation is found here.

How do you feel about e-books? Win a Free iPad! Take ebrary’s Student E-book Survey

Ebrary’s Student E-book Survey is here and should take less than 20 minutes to complete.

Mapping the topography of scholarship

From: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship's Hidden Terrain

"Trapped in disciplinary valleys, surrounded by dense forests of information, researchers have a hard time seeing a lot of scholarship that might be relevant to their work, especially if it's not published in the places they already know to look."

Can disasters be prevented?

From United Nations University: WorldRiskReport 2011

"The WorldRiskReport 2011 helps to evaluate the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards. Using world maps to visualize, it shows on the one hand where the probability of a natural hazard to occur is particularly high; on the other hand it is shown in which countries the population can cope with these events especially good or bad."

New study from Statistics Canada on commuting

From Statistics Canada: Commuting to work
"Canadian commuters took an average of 26 minutes to travel to work on a typical day in 2010... Roughly 82% of commuters travelled to work by car in 2010, while 12% took public transit and 6% walked or bicycled."