2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Emma Uhl
Publishing Support Specialist
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Emma Uhl is a Publishing Support Specialist at the Public Knowledge Project. As an early career MLIS graduate focused on open access and scholarly publishing, Emma supports many individual, institutional, and society publishers across the world in her work, including connecting with Canadian library publishers through Coalition Publica, PKP’s partnership with Érudit.
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.
