Over 40 Canadian post-secondary institutions provide publishing or hosting services to their communities to support the creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly works. Collectively, libraries in Canada support more than 700 scholarly and student publications, offering a variety of services. While journal hosting and publishing are frequent topics in local, regional, and national conversations around scholarly communications and libraries, Canadian practitioners have no established community to engage with issues that are uniquely relevant to them, and that represents them effectively to the wider scholarly communications and publishing community in Canada.
The primary goals of the Library Publishing Community Engagement Team (LPCET) are to support Canadian library publishing practitioners in their functional roles, and to grow Canadian expertise and capacity in this area. Providing support for these practitioners in their work is crucial to ensuring the long-term sustainability of Canada’s not-for-profit journal publishing sector.
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Canadian Library Journal Publishing Primer
Academic libraries are the largest journal publishing group in Canada, collectively supporting approximately 800 journals from 35 institutions, representing a range of research disciplines and creative endeavours. This primer was elaborated by the Library Publishing Community Engagement Team in 2024 and is intended to provide a brief introduction to Canadian library publishing and to articulate the role of library publishers in disseminating Canadian scholarship and furthering Open Access.
Members
Sonya Betz (Alberta) – co-chair
Mark Swartz (Queen's) – co-chair
Samantha MacFarlane (Victoria)
Édith Robert (UQAM)
Richard Hayman (Mount Royal)
Jordan Pederson (Guelph)
Jeanette Hatherill (Coalition Publica)
Mike Nason (UNB)
Tomasz Mrozewski (York)
Marie-Hélène Vézina (Montréal)
Brianne Selman (Winnipeg)
Emily Carlisle-Johnston (Western)
Elizabeth Kalbfleisch (CARL support)
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Community Events
Past Events
Past event recordings (where applicable) can be viewed on the CARL YouTube Channel via the Library Publishing Playlist.
Workshop for the Library Community on SSHRC’s Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant Program [French Session]
July 24 @ 13:00 EDTWorkshop for the Library Community on SSHRC’s Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant Program [English Session]
July 22 @ 13:00 EDTCARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team Community Call – Publishing Standards
February 26 @ 12:00 ESTCARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team Community Call – Flipping to Diamond OA
December 17, 2024 @ 12:00 ESTCARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team Community Call – Journal Statistics and Reporting
September 12, 2024 @ 12:00 EDT