2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Gwendal Henry
Communications Advisor
Érudit
Gwendal Henry has worked for several publishing houses in France and in Quebec. He is particularly interested in the new ways of disseminating knowledge enabled by the dematerialization of content. He is currently a Communications Advisor for the Érudit platform and a lecturer in digital publishing at Université de Sherbrooke.
Presenting at the following sessions
October 05, 2022
11:45am
Understanding the complexities and nuances of Canada’s non-commercial journal publishing ecosystem is critical if we are to establish a sustainable and open path forward. An ecosystem is, by definition, a community of organisms together with their physical environment. In biology, we consider that “ecosystems with higher biodiversity tend to be more stable with greater resistance and resilience in the face of disturbances, or disruptive events.” Recent research has demonstrated a near absence of commercial publishers in the Canadian context. Rather, journals in Canada look much like a biological ecosystem, and rely on a complex and interrelated community of support, including organizations such as universities, scholarly associations, not-for-profit presses, and academic libraries.
