University libraries and scholarly publishing in Quebec—moving from collaboration to pooling via the Circé Network
Tuesday May 13, 2025
From 2:45pm to 3:15pm
Created in June 2024, with five-year funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), the Circé Network aims to provide concrete support to the ecosystem of French-language scholarly journals in Quebec in its transition to Diamond open access, an immediate open access model without any author or reader fees. The network’s goals include the establishment of a Quebec community of practice.
The Circé Network revolves around four practitioner and expertise hubs: scholarly journals, platform, libraries, and discoverability. The Libraries Hub’s structuring body, the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec (PBUQ), operates synergistically with Quebec's 18 university libraries to spearhead initiatives that design and deploy a shared range of library services for Quebec’s scholarly journals in their transition to open access. These initiatives may include optimizing editorial processes, designing a training program for librarians and journal staff, improving journal visibility and discoverability, and integrating ‘orphan’ journals into the Open Journal System (OJS) platform.
The presentation will focus on this evolving range of library services and their implementation challenges.
Speakers
Bibliothécaire en soutien à la recherche
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières