Did you know? In addition to cultural and scholarly articles, the erudit.org platform also distributes several collections of books and conference proceedings.
On this World Book and Copyright Day, we offer an overview of this lesser-known, but no less important, area of our platform. Published by scholarly publishers, research centers and learned societies, all these works are in open access!
16 collections and 152 titles
Our 16 collections of books and symposium proceedings, which together number 152 titles, are sure to appeal to the reading enthusiast and the naturally curious.
Ever thought that in one place you could learn more about the origins of the Second World War, the “incantatory ideal” in literary modernity, or the implications of artistic freedom ? We’ve got just what you’re looking for: our non-collection section features a healthy variety of subjects of historical and contemporary relevance.
Among other things, you’ll find the Pedagogical guide to knowledge mobilization (in French only), which helps anyone wishing to undertake a research project to adopt co-construction practices aimed at solving social or organizational problems more effectively.
Otherwise, immerse yourself in the writers of Francophone modernity by consulting Une littérature “comme incantatoire”: aspects et échos de l’incantation en littérature (XIXe-XXIe siècle) (in French only), which examines how incantatory speech permeates the writings of Verlaine, Rimbaud and a host of great authors, from the 1800s to the present day.
For our more methodical readers, the Books and Proceedings area is also divided into thematic collections: might you be tempted by Culture française d’Amérique, a collection of 21 works published between 1991 and 2004 by the Presses de l’Université Laval? If not, the expansive collection of Publications de l’Association internationale des démographes de langue française (AIDELF) – Carrefour de la démographie francophone will undoubtedly meet your expectations: declining birth rates, international migration, intergenerational relations… it’s all there.
Going further
Still hungry for books ? We distribute several journals that approach books from different angles. Here are two that might make you appreciate these little everyday objects even more.
Studies in Book Culture
The scholarly journal Studies in Book Culture has been disseminated on Érudit since 2009, and covers a wide range of issues related to printed and digital books: the players and institutions in the book production chain, materials and content, practices and uses. Unlike most literary studies journals, Studies in Book Culture focuses as much on the study of literary content as on that of the book object itself. So don’t be surprised to come across a text on history or economics when you dip into one of the thirty issues of this open access journal on our platform!
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
The Bibliographical Society of Canada is a bilingual organization dedicated to encouraging the publication of bibliographies, critical editions and studies of book history and print culture.
Its Papers, which are available in open access on Érudit, publish articles and notes on the world of print, authorship studies, digital works in the humanities and social sciences, copyright, readership, textual studies and more.
We recommend their issue Working Together. Collective Mechanisms in the Book Circuit, which looks at mutual aid and fraternity in the field of Quebec comic books, the tension between the democratization of literary creation and the professionalization of established writers at the Les Correspondances d’Eastman literary festival, and the value of proximity and camaraderie among new Quebec publishers.
Before turning the page
It’s hard to separate books from copyright, which protects writers and encourages literary and cultural production. To learn more about these invaluable allies of the written word, here are two open access articles:
Goudreau, Mistrale. “Introduction au droit d’auteur.” Revue générale de droit, volume 22, number 2, June 1991, p. 273–301. https://doi.org/10.7202/1058121ar
In 1988, Parliament adopted major amendments to the Copyright Act, as part of an ongoing reform which was to be completed in subsequent years. Since 1988, a number of commentators have dealt with these amendments, but, to date, very few authors have presented an overview of copyright law as it now stands. In this study, the author attempts such an overview in light both of the 1988 Copyright Act Amendments and the amendments consequent to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
Giguère, Adrien. “Le droit d’auteur : de l’imprimerie à l’autoroute de l’information.” Documentation et bibliothèques, volume 43, number 1, January–March 1997, p. 31–37. https://doi.org/10.7202/1033105ar
The concept of copyright as we know it has evolved over the last 400 years according to the social and technological changes and it continues to evolve in accordance with a new electronic environment. With this in mind, the author outlines the major developments pertaining to copyright and casts an eye to the future and the information highway.
Le Moine, François. “La loi, la statue et l’artiste. L’apport du droit moral aux débats sur la commémoration.” RACAR : Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, volume 46, number 2, 2021, p. 108–121. https://doi.org/10.7202/1085425ar
Contemporary public sentiment and policy relating to the continued display of contested monuments has had a tendency to overlook (if not ignore) the rights of artists. This article reviews how the law, in particular, moral rights contained in the Copyright Act, protects artists and prevents statues and other public works of art from being “distorted, mutilated or otherwise modified.” […] Drawing from relevant case law and case studies of events that have been hotly debated in the media, we provide a summary of the applicable rules with the goal of integrating them into the ongoing discussion about commemoration.