2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Jessica Lange
Scholarly Communications Coordinator and Assistant Librarian
McGill University
Jessica Lange is the Scholarly Communications Coordinator and Assistant Librarian at McGill University Library. In her role she provides scholarly communications services to the campus community, including preserving and supplying access to the research output of the McGill community and consulting on issues concerning publishing, open access and authors’ rights.
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.
