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Issues of scholarly dissemination

Symposium québécois des revues savantes

Update as of November 13: This event is fully booked, and registration for the Symposium is now closed. We are expecting teams from over 70 journals, and our workshop room capacity does not allow for more. This autumn, Érudit and Acfas are joining forces to

Summary of a symposium on scholarly journals

The symposium titled “Entre anglicisation de la recherche et libre accès : imaginer l’avenir des revues en sciences humaines et sociales” (Between increasingly anglicized research and open access: imagining the future of journals in the humanities) aimed to present the issues and challenges that French-language

Working Towards Equitable Open Access

As part of Open Access Week, Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) would like to underline the value of equity in the transition to open access in Canada and around the world. The theme of this year's International Open Access Week is "It Matters

Interview with Jean-Claude Guédon

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

Did Someone Say Canadian Academic Journals?

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

The importance of National Scholarly journals

“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