We are pleased to present to you our annual report for the year 2017-2018, during which we have been working hard to consolidate our national mission, to develop the Partnership for Open Access and to launch new research activities. Thirteen new journals joined our platform, of which
The vitality and popularity of French-language scholarly journals in Ontario confirm the relevance of a new Canadian space for education and research in French. Érudit has supported the creation of the Université de l’Ontario français (UOF) from the outset, as well as the launch of
Coalition Publi.ca, a national partnership providing sustainable support for journals transitioning to open access. Created in the spring of 2017, Coalition Publi.ca aims to establish an infrastructure dedicated to the digital production and dissemination of research results in the Canadian humanities and social sciences (HSS).
Following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Union, Érudit has issued a “Privacy policy” (read it here) as well as a “Cookie policy” (available here), in compliance with the GDPR requirements, as well as with Quebec’s provisions set out in the
Érudit recently became aware of this interesting funding opportunity for the digitization of heritage documents: https://nhds.ca/digitizing-canadian-collections-funding-call-apply-now/ Driven by the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) Steering Committee, this initiative aims to “make accessible and preserve documentary heritage material of national significance.” The total amount of funding available
img class=”alignleft wp-image-3468 size-large” src=”https://apropos.erudit.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Annual-report-2017-ENG-1024×536.png” alt=”Annual report 2017 ENG” width=”1024″ height=”536″ /> In the past year, we focused on renewing our Canadian university libraries partnership, a move that enabled the creation of a support fund for open-access journals and helped reduce the restricted access period
We launched our Scholarly Journals Call for Applications! For more information, and to find out how to submit your journal, see https://apropos.erudit.org/en/collections-en/journals/call-for-applications/
Improving the way we produce, discover and explore digital scholarly publications is, in a nutshell, the goal of the Open Cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences (CO.SHS). The project is led by Vincent Larivière, holder of the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of
The Érudit’s and Public Knowledge Project’s team members want to affirm their formal and enthusiastic support for Jussieu’s Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity. The two organizations, which have been developing open and interoperable research infrastructures for some time, have joined together in 2017 (CO-SHS
There will be 17 new journals on Érudit in 2017 and 2018! Six of these new journals will be accessible in open access : Architecture Canada, Éthique en éducation et formation, Recherches qualitatives, Québec Journal of International Law, Revue Gouvernance and Revue musicale OICRM. The other
