Over the past several years, Jean-Claude Guédon, a leading advocate in the open access movement, has been actively calling for a revival of the true purpose of scholarly research—what he calls the Great Scientific Conversation. In support of this idea, the former Université de Montréal
As our scientific director Vincent Larivière says, “Quebec and Canadian academic journals allow the dissemination of papers on national interests and benefit from a much higher usage than the average international journals.” (De l’importance des revues de recherche nationales, Acfas, translated from French by Érudit, 2014). But
“If researchers are told that they must publish in international journals, this will have an effect on their research. For exemple, if I want to publish a sociology research work on Quebec, it will be difficult for me to do it in an American journal
With the advent of digital technology and the development of open access to research results , what university presses roles will be required to play in scholarly dissemination ? Benoît Melançon, professor at Université de Montréal and scientific director at Université de Montréal Press answers
