2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Sonya Betz
Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services
University of Alberta
Sonya Betz is Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, which supports more than 60 diamond Open Access journals through its non-commercial, scholar-led publishing program. Sonya is deeply interested in seeking ways to promote and sustain not-for-profit approaches to scholarly publishing and open access, and is an active member of the Library Publishing Coalition, a partner on the IMLS-funded Library Publishing Workflows Project, and recent past Chair of the Public Knowledge Project's Technical Committee.
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.
