Preface / Préface

Scholarly and Research Communication, 2018

This article traces the ninety-five-year history of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and its contribution to research dissemination, the building of a scholarly community, and services to authors.L’article retrace l’historique de la Revue de la Société historique du Canada et sa contribution à la diffusion de la recherche, le développement de la communauté savante et les services aux auteurs depuis quatre-vingts quinze ans.

Biens symboliques, 2018

Transatlantica Revue D Etudes Americaines American Studies Journal, 2003

The Canadian Historical Review, 2004

2007

This book chapter argues that Canadian academic libraries have largely failed to maximize the opportunity to develop a national information infrastructure. As a result, they operate in an environment where information is often under the control of corporate interests and other nations. For instance, Canadian scholarly communication is affected by American legislation (e.g. The USA PATRTIOT Act) and governmental rulings (e.g. rulings of the Office of Foreign Asset Controls). While some discussion has taken place, there is an overall lack of a national dialogue on how to ameliorate this situation. There is also evidence that access to Canadian digital content within Canada is selective.

Canadian Journal of Communication, 2014

I n 2012, Gaëtan Tremblay retired, at least institutionally. He has, in fact, continued his research activities, as shown by the recent UNESCO report Renewing the Knowledge Societies Vision: Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development, co-edited with Robin Mansell (Tremblay & Mansell, 2013a, 2013b). To celebrate Gaëtan's retirement from the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la communication, l'information et la société (CRICIS) organized an international conference in Montréal in May 2013 around the theme "Where is the critical in communication?" (Kane & George, 2013). Michael Dorland was one of several colleagues invited to speak about Gaëtan's career, and it was at that moment that the idea came to the two of us to propose a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication organized around questions that Gaëtan Tremblay had concerned himself with throughout the years. Such an issue seemed even more pertinent as Tremblay is a Québécois communication researcher with undoubtedly one of the highest levels of production and dissemination both here and far beyond our borders. An open individual, he engaged with the entirety of Canadawhile the "two solitudes" (MacLennan, 1945) continued to rage on-especially when it came to research. One example is when he became the inaugural president of the Canadian Communication Association in 1980. However, his openness was far more broad than Canada. This can be seen when one reads the rich content of his academic production, but more directly through his mastery of four languages: French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Portuguese, for instance, he learned in the space of a few short months in order to give a course in Brazil in the local language. Logical as we are, Michael Dorland and I began to dream up this issue by asking our "new retiree" to write a text about his own career, a proposition that was immediately accepted but which-as he explains-was not exactly easy. Tremblay himself qualifies it as "intellectual striptease." However, we see it more as an exercise in positive reflexivity organized around a life trajectory through which Tremblay puts special, though not exclusive, attention on his research activities. This is a trajectory he considers as "always more or less the result of a junction between a personal research program and solicitations from the community within which he is evolving, individual choices, and socio-historical constraints." Tremblay's presence, though, does not end with his text in this issue of the CJC. In fact, building the issue around him has also provided the occasion to put forward a synthesis of various research themes undertaken in the French language. It is not haphazard that all contributors to this issue are researchers associated with the re

Canadian Journal of Communication, 2004

This article discusses the dynamics of a transition from print to online publishing by Canadian social science and humanities (SSH) journals. It reports the results of a survey of publishing practice, financial operations, and attitudinal orientation to the online environment. The survey results are analyzed and the dynamics of an evolution to online publishing are proposed and considered.