2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Sarah Severson
Digital Projects Librarian
University of Alberta
Sarah Severson is a Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Alberta Library living in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 and Métis territory. She works as part of a team that supports the Library’s open journal and educational resources publishing program and digital production services. Their research interests include how labour is compensated and distributed in Canadian scholarly journals and the impact that has on the sustainability and equity of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
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.
