Recognize,
Promote,Reinforce.
Recommendations fromthe Symposium québécois
des revues savantes

Summary

Overview

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Scholarly Journals
at a Crossroads

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1. Context and Issues
1.1 Highlights
1.2 Evolution of the Environment
1.3 Three Major Issues

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2. Solutions and Recommendations
2.1 Research Evaluation:
A Systemic Issue

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2.2 Recommendations for the Key Stakeholders
in Scholarly Publishing

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Appendix 1
Organization of the Symposium québécois
des revues savantes

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Appendix 2
List of the 44 Journals Represented
at the Symposium

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Appendix 3
A Few Pictures from the Event

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REPORT AUTHORS

Suzanne BethGwendal Henry
Anne-Marie Fortier
Simon van Bellen

WRITING SUPPORT

Sophie Montreuil
Tanja Niemann

MEMBERS OF THE SYMPOSIUM'SSTEERING COMMITTEE

Anne-Marie Fortier – Études littéraires
Jean-Sébastien Fallu – Drogues, santé et société
Kristine Plouffe-Malette – Revue québécoise de droit international
Léon Robichaud – Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
Denise Tousignant – Le naturaliste canadien

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Beth, S., Henry, G., Fortier, A.-M., van Bellen, S. (2024).
Recognize, Promote, Reinforce: Recommendations from the
Symposium québécois des revues savantes. Érudit and Acfas.
https://erudit.org/public/documents/recommendations-symposiumjournals.pdf

Overview

Observations and Recommendations

Whether it is the Anglicization of scholarly communication,
new standards around digital dissemination or funding,
independent scholarly journals are currently facing
several difficult challenges.

Scholarly Journals, Essential
to Research and Society→ At the heart of the research cycle,
scholarly journals ensure that newscientific knowledge is received
and acted upon by different spheresof society.
→ Without Québec and Canadianjournals, the ability to publish
research about Québec and Canada
would be severely compromised.

→ Rapidly evolving digital technologies
force journals to constantly update theirdiscoverability strategies.
→ Diamond open access, free forboth authors and readers, is thepath advocated for by independentjournals to build a fair scholarly
publishing ecosystem.

Several of the current issues in thescholarly publishing ecosystem arelinked to research evaluation practices
and the way professors are promoted,

as well as to the lack of recognition
and understanding of the role thatjournals play in the research cycle.

4 core recommendations are outlined:
1. For granting agencies:
Maintain the funding level of support
programs for journals by correcting for
inflation and by extending their eligibility
period to five years.

3. For journals:
Create a horizontal, collaborative
common structure of Québec scholarly
journals that reflects their diversity.

2. For universities:
Implement teaching relief for journal
editors across the board.

4. For libraries and digital infrastructures:
Provide coherent expertise to editorial
teams notably on technical andlegal issues.

Quebec scholarly journals in numbers:

16­0scholarly journals in
Québec (800 in Canada)

50 %publish ­exclusively
in French

85 %in the humanities
and social sciences

75 %of article views ­originate
outside Canada*

2 out of 3 < 5 %are disseminatedin open accessowned by afor-profit company*Number of journals disseminatedon the erudit.org platform3

Scholarly Journals
at a Crossroads
Due to the continuous evolution of digital technologies
since their advent around thirty years ago and interactions
between the internationalization of research and public
policy, Québec-based scholarly journals operate in anenvironment undergoing profound changes. Today, thissituation is characterized by the promotion of open accessand the growing Anglicization of scholarly communication.
This document begins with an overview of the state ofscholarly publishing in Québec, before presenting
the recommendations developed during the Symposium
québécois des revues savantes.

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1 Context and Issues
Beyond certifying and safekeeping the scientific value of
published articles, scholarly journals are at the heart ofknowledge dissemination. They play a threefold role: theyextend the reach of the published articles, generate newresearch questions and allow society to engage with newknowledge. Québec-based scholarly journals play a vitalrole in our ability to meet the major challenges of our time.

1.1 Highlights
The province of Québec has around
160 active scholarly journals, of which the vast
majority (around 85 %) cover the humanities,
the social sciences, the arts and literature,
while around 15 % dedicate themselves tohealth and nature sciences. Around half ofthese journals publish exclusively in French,around ten publish exclusively in English, andthe others are bilingual and plurilingual.
Approximately two thirds of Québec scholarly
journals are in immediate open access,meaning that their content is available withoutcost. Among these, close to 30 % are indexedin the Directory of Open Access Journals,
the reference database of open-accessperiodicals worldwide. This proportion isconstantly growing.

Québec-based scholarly journals distinguishthemselves by the central role they play inthe dissemination of research on Québec andCanada, which are represented as objects ofstudy two to three times more frequently thanin journals based outside the country1. Accessto new knowledge about Québec and Canada
would be severely compromised without
these journals. They highlight the high qualityof the research being conducted here and thecontributions made by Québec’s academic
community to advancing knowledge, while
offering rigorous perspectives and analyses
that support informed decision-making.

Scholarly journals are jewels in Québec’s
scientific heritage!

1 Larivière, V. (2018). The status of French as a second language. About the evolution of the places and languages of publication ofQuebec, French and German researchers. Recherches sociographiques, 59(3), 339-363. Érudit. https://doi.org/10.7202/1058718ar

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1.2 Evolution of the Environment

Driven by two sources of major change, the emergenceof digital technologies and the open access movement,
the environment in which scholarly journals operate has
undergone deep transformations in the last thirty years.

Digital Technologies
The current changes in scholarly publishinghave their roots in the advent of the Internet
and its rapid spread to many spheres ofactivity during the 1990s. The Internet’s
unprecedented structure, based on
hypertext links connecting documents ina criss-crossing pattern, had the potential
to revolutionize publishing in general andscholarly publishing in particular. The Web, on
top of making documents available in quasiunlimited quantities, considerably increased
the capacity for scholarly dissemination whileallowing journals to reduce their costs, notably
in printing expenses. Several public initiatives
around digital publishing and dissemination
emerged at that time, notably the very firstversion of Érudit in Québec, but also SciELO
in Brazil, and Cairn and OpenEdition in
France. In parallel, the creation of tools tomanage open source code manuscripts, like
Open Journal Systems, launched in 2002 by
the Public Knowledge Project, reduced theworkload for editorial teams while increasing
the reach of published articles.

Uploading raw text to a web page is notenough to generate real reach for articles
disseminated on the Internet: to have themdisplay correctly, as well as to ensure thatthey appear in search engine results, theircontent and associated metadata must beprocessed in a specific way, supported bydigital publishing chains. Moreover, the useof unique and permanent identifiers, used
to identify not only journals (by ISSN) andarticles (by Digital Object Identifier, DOI), butalso other entities like affiliation institutions
and authors, contributes to creating ties
between publications and makes it easier
to find things in the digital landscape. In thiscontext, discoverability strategies are now acore element of scholarly dissemination.

Discoverability of Scholarly Journals
Discoverability is defined as “the potential for online content
to be easily discovered in cyberspace by web users, notably
by those that are not specifically looking for this particular
content2.” For scholarly journals, discoverability is driven
primarily by the production of exhaustive and accurate
metadata, but also by their indexation into generalist searchengines (Google, Bing) or into specialized tools like Worldcat
or Scopus.

In this context, discoverability
strategies are now a core elementof scholarly dissemination.

2 Office québécois de la langue française. (2021). Découvrabilité. Grand dictionnaire terminologique. https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.
gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26541675/decouvrabilite

Context and Issues

6Open Access
The movement for open access emerged in
the early 2000s at the initiative of a groupof researchers from around the world inresponse to the “Periodical Crisis.” This
expression describes the critical situationthat academic libraries found themselves inat the end of the 1990s. The subscription costof periodicals belonging to large commercial
publishers had increased to such an extent
that they drained the acquisition budgetsof libraries, leading them to forego thesesubscriptions, or even stop the purchaseof monographs, thereby compromisingaccess to scholarly publications for someacademic communities. It is in this climatethat the Budapest Open Access Initiative wasformulated, a foundational declaration of what
would become the open access movement.
Its signees aimed to dissociate disseminationfrom commercialization when it came toknowledge sharing.

Large Commercial Publishers: An Oligopoly
The international scholarly publishing landscape is dominated by an oligopoly
made up of a few large commercial publishers3: Elsevier, Springer Nature,
Wiley, Taylor & Francis. As research across the world is supported for themost part by public funds, the commercial practices of these multinationals
have attracted a lot of criticism. They impose publishing or subscription feesthat go well beyond the real costs of production and dissemination, andhave profit margins that generally exceed 30 %. In 2023, Elsevier’s revenue
was over 15 billion Canadian dollars4. These practices create substantial
pressure on research budgets and jeopardize access to knowledge. Theselarge commercial publishers take advantage of the unpaid work that
researchers do when writing and reviewing the journal articles which go on
to be commercialized.

3 Larivière, V., Haustein, S. et Mongeon, P. (2015). The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLOS ONE, 10(6),e0127502. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
4 RELX 2023 results. Viewed on March 27,2024. https://www.relx.com/media/press-releases/year-2024/relx-2023-results

Context and Issues

7However, the major for-profit publishers
rapidly adopted modified forms of open
access to extract profits, notably throughhybrid journals. Since open access leads tothe abolition of barriers to reading, namely
subscription fees, these publishers developed
practices based on publishing fees, generally
called article processing charges or APCs,
which authors have to pay in exchange forthe free dissemination of their articles. Thesepublishing fees do not reflect the true costof processing articles, but rather, they are
established based on the reputation andsize of the publishers5, as well as market
dynamics6. Indeed, a commercial publishingoligopoly means that most scholarly articles
are published by a very small number ofbusinesses, creating a power dynamic whichlets them impose increases to publishing feesthat are disconnected from the actual costs.
As they are taken from research grants oracademic library budgets, APCs represent a
misappropriation of public funds toward thebottom line of large commercial publishers,
weakening the capacity of Canadian
researchers to do their work by reducing theamount of funds that go to the research itself.

Diamond open access, with no fees for either
authors or readers, was developed as a
response to these commercial practices. It
is funded collectively by every stakeholder
in the scholarly publishing ecosystem andhas been embraced by a growing numberof public dissemination platforms across theworld, notably in Europe and in Latin America.
In Canada, Québec has moved more andmore in that direction.

20 years after the Budapest Initiative, open
access is now an integral part of the scholarly
publishing landscape in Québec andelsewhere, and a growing number of journals
have implemented it, notably to conformto public policies concerning research. In
Québec, these policies are established by
the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ)
and by the three federal granting agencies.
Scholarly journals are ultimately dependent
on policies that apply to research teams,
which require scholarly articles resulting fromsubsidized projects to be disseminated inopen access. The journals must also adopt an
open access model to be eligible for support
programs managed by the FRQ Société etculture (FQRSC) and the Social Sciencesand Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

5 Interview with Alain Schuhl, Director of Science at the CNRS. (June 22,2023). Publication costs — “we are on the edge of theabyss”, CNRS. https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/publication-costs-we-are-edge-abyss
6 Budzinski, O., Grebel, T., Wolling, J. et Zhang, X. (2020). Drivers of article processing charges in open access. Scientometrics,
124(3), 2185-2206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03578-3

Context and Issues

8There are several kinds of open accesspublishing, of which the following four are themost popular:
HybridDiamond

The article is published in a journal that
requires a subscription, and authors havethe option of paying publishing fees tohave their articles disseminated in open
access. This model has historically been
adopted by commercial publishers.

No fees for both authors and ­readers,
as neither the journals nor the­dissemination platforms charge a­subscription fee. Diamond access isfunded by ­institutional support, grants,
partnerships and membership fees(to ­professional societies or associations).

Gold

Green

Access to journals is free for readers,
while authors pay publishing fees.

The article is published in an institutionalor field-based repository, with no access
restriction. In general, the article ispublished in a journal that is not in
open access, but which allows its
presence within such a repository.

It’s equally important to mention the emerging
practice of “transformative agreements”, bywhich academic libraries — and more often
library consortia, or even states — negotiate
readership access (subscriptions) as wellas publishing access (publishing fees) for

researchers affiliated with their institutions forthe journals belonging to large commercial
publishers, in exchange for one global
payment. This model is rarely financiallyadvantageous for the consortia andthe libraries7.

7 Butler, L.-A. et Haustein, S. (2023,11 mai). Nouveaux modèles, mêmes problèmes: comment les modèles commerciaux delibre accès des cinq grands éditeurs perpétuent les inégalités dans la communication savante. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/
zenodo.7916228

Context and Issues

91.3 Three Major Issues

The Symposium québécois des revues savantes wasorganized around three axes, one for each current major issue
in scholarly publishing in Québec, namely: (1) publishingin French, (2) the recognition of the role of journals in the
research cycle and (3) the expertise of editorial teams.
Publication in French
As the domination of English on scientificcommunication is becoming more and more
entrenched8, we are witnessing a generalized
linguistic impoverishment in the field. The
capacity to publish in French is thus a major
issue for scholarly journals in Québec andCanada 9. Discussions held during the
Symposium touched on the systemic natureof the rapid decline in the number of articles
published in French, which is directly linked
to practices around research evaluation
and academic career tracks, imposed byboth universities and granting agencies.
The metrics currently in use to calculateprestige, such as the Impact Factor, present ahistorical bias that favours English-language
publications,still assigned a disproportionate
value. In such a context, how do we reinforce
the legitimacy of publications in French andbring them increased value?

The idea of translating Canadian scholarly
publications has been around for decades10,
but the possibility that it could be done atscale reemerged with the rapid developmentof neural automatic translation. However,while automatic translation can contribute toexpanding the potential readership of Frenchlanguage publications, it is not a solution to
the decline of the number of articles submitted
and published in French in Québec scholarly journals. In fact, translation from French
to English might compromise the visibilityof French-language content, somethingthat should give us pause as we consider
this option.

Observations→ Decline in the number of manuscripts submitted
in French and relative rise in the numberof publications in English→ English-language publications overvalued
in the evaluation of researchers→ Difficulty in recruiting evaluators for articles
written in French, particularly stark in somefields of the humanities and the social sciences→ Desire to strengthen the role of scholarly
journals in the French-speaking world

8 Larivière, V. (2018). The status of French as a second language. About the evolution of the places and languages of publication ofQuebec, French and German researchers. Recherches sociographiques, 59(3), 339‑363. Érudit. https://doi.org/10.7202/1058718ar
9 Acfas, Institut canadien de recherche sur les minorités linguistiques, et Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les transformations decommunication savante de l’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information de l’Université de Montréal. (2021, juin).
Portrait et défis de la recherche en français en contexte minoritaire au Canada (rapport). https://www.acfas.ca/sites/default/files/
documents_utiles/rapport_francophonie_final.pdf
10 Warren, J.-P. (2018). La traduction en sciences humaines et sociales au Canada. Dynamiques générales et impacts du PAES.
Recherches sociographiques, 59(3), 385‑409.

Context and Issues

10Observations

Recognizing the Roleof Independent Journals
The role and reach of scholarly journals areoften misunderstood, notably by their homeinstitutions, and reduced to manuscript
evaluation. In reality, journals play multiple
roles, as they occupy a key position in
the research life cycle. They ensure thatnew scientific knowledge is received andacted upon by different spheres of society,they inspire new research ideas, and they
contribute to the safeguarding of knowledge.

That preparation also goes on within these
editorial teams, as up-and-coming researchers
contribute to manuscript processing.
How can we promote recognition andappreciation for the core role played by thesejournals in the production and disseminationof knowledge, its social impact, the trainingof young researchers and the vitality of
research communities?

→ Relegation of journal management outside
valued research activities→ Lack of recognition for editorial work andits time-consuming nature→ Uncertainty around building the next generationof journal teams→ Progressive loss of the prestige associatedwith independent journals

More generally, independent journals areliving spaces that energize their researchcommunities, whether within editorial teams,
among the authors being published, or
through the peer reviewers that guarantee thequality of the articles selected for publication.
Journal editorial teams play a key role intraining young researchers by working closelywith them on their manuscripts. These teams
invest a lot of time in this task, which is often
done unseen in the background, despite being
essential to preparing the next generationof researchers.

→ Disproportionate prestige given to publishingin a journal belonging to a large commercial
publisher

Context and Issues

11Observations

The Expertise of Editorial Teams
The expertise of editorial teams is especiallycrucial as they have been operating ina rapidly evolving environment for three
decades. On top of their field-specificexpertise, those who manage scholarly
publications have to acquire several skill sets,from budget and operations management topublishing practices, manuscript processing,and dissemination and indexing standards.
These skill sets, acquired over years, need
to be constantly updated, which requires not
only effort, but also time, a very rare resource
in today’s academia.

In a context of rapid transformations topublishing methods and open accesspolicies, how can we support these journals
in maintaining and expanding their expertise,
as well as passing it on?

→ A lot of time needed to learn best practices indigital publishing and to update that knowledge→ Inequality in access to support services
provided by libraries→ Difficulty in maintaining expertise becauseof team turnover→ Desire to implement diversity, equity andinclusion principles within journals, notably
around the use of Native languages→ Gap between the expectations establishedin programs by the granting agencies and thelack of training offered to editorial teams

Context and Issues

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2 Solutions and Recommendations
The Symposium québécois des revues savantes
led to the formulation of recommendations designed
to strengthen independent scholarly journals inthis context of major changes to their operating
environment. This section presents some of the
proposals put forward during this event, precededby a discussion of the influence of current researchevaluation practices on scholarly publication.

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2.1 Research Evaluation: A Systemic Issue
Research evaluation is a process that aims
to establish the relevance and the impact ofactivities being conducted by researchers,
their teams and academic institutions.
Quantitative research evaluation methods
remain currently in use, despite theirsubstantial limits. Indeed, these indicators
rarely do correctly track complex concepts
like impact or relevance, if only because
those concepts lack clear definitions. Are
we considering impacts within researchcommunities, or the impact of an article on
public policy or society at large? Moreover,
the time necessary to observe the real impactof an article could very well exceed the typicallength of an evaluation cycle.

The Impact Factor in particular is front andcentre in current evaluation practices, despite
the fact that it was not created to evaluate thescientific merit of research articles, but rather
to help librarians to select which documentaryresources to acquire. However, numerous
researchers will consider that publishing ina journal with a high Impact Factor is betterfor their academic career, even though thenegative effects of the excessive importancegiven to this metric are many and well
documented. It shows a positive bias towarddisciplines like the natural sciences andmedicine, to the detriment of the humanities,
social sciences, arts and literature.

The way researchers are evaluated andprofessors are promoted is the coresystemic issue relating to the question of
the recognition of Québec-based scholarly
journals. A transformation of current
practices is one of the key tasks that need
to be undertaken to maintain the vitality of
Québec and Canada’s academic ecosystem.
Notably, it requires recognizing the diversityof activities, practices and communication
methods that maximize the quality andimpacts of research. To that end, a qualitative
form of evaluation should be promoted,with quantitative metrics being limited to asupport role. Researchers should not only beevaluated on their publications, but we should
also consider editorial, supervision, teachingand public outreach activities, among others.
Moreover, they should not have to play allthese roles, as specializing in one or two
should be considered acceptable.

The notion of research quality also implies
that it is accessible and useful for society as awhole, and it is therefore important to highlightthe value of publications in languages otherthan English as well as the importance ofopen access.
A Few Possibilities
1. A review of evaluation practices for ­researchers
and research to prioritize ­qualitative evaluation
practices and to give greater value to editorialactivities and ­communications methods beyond
scholarly articles.
2. Give due value to communications in ­languages
other than English, and to those aimed at awider nonacademic readership or ­audience.
3. Take inspiration from the principles establishedin CoARA and DORA, and implement them.

The use of the Impact Factor for research evaluation
purposes reinforces the hegemony of English in
scholarly communications and reduces the presenceof other languages and other sociocultural anchorings,
which contributes to the decline in bibliodiversity
in scholarly publishing.

Solutions and Recommendations

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2.2 Recommendations for the Key Stakeholders
in Scholarly Publishing
The recommendations in this section reflect proposals
made at the Symposium québécois des revues
savantes by members of the editorial teams present.

Main Recommendation

Maintain the funding level of support programs forjournals by correcting for inflation and by extending
their eligibility period to five years.

Public Institutions and Granting Agencies:
Orient Policy

Granting agencies provide financial support to journals
through two grant programs designed to help periodicals
covering the humanities, the social sciences, the artsand literature: Aide aux revues savantes (CRSH) andSoutien aux revues scientifiques (FRQSC). As theseagencies have policies which favour open access, theirsupport has a prescriptive effect on journal practices,
as journals need to conform to open access criteria tobe eligible for these programs and to allow researchers
to receive grants for publishing in their issues.

Solutions and Recommendations

Secondary Recommendations:1.

3.

Adapt evaluation practices of theresearch done in the humanities
and the social sciences as well asof French-language publications
to their own realities, to the benefitof knowledge and society.

Support the implementationof policy changes, in particularby supporting the training ofeditorial teams.

2.

4.

Promote diamond open
access when evaluating
scientific policies.

Provide compensation to
students for their contribution
to journal operations.
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Main Recommendation

Implement teaching relief for journal editors
across the board.

Universities and Scientific institutions:
Strengthen Institutional Support

The vast majority of Québec scholarly journals operate
independently from commercial publishers, being rooted
in research circles and managed by professors. Throughtheir departments or faculties, academic institutions offer
a wide range of support to the journals affiliated with them,in the form of rebates, material resources, administrative
staff hours and visibility in their official communications.

Secondary Recommendations:
1.

4.

Systematize the support
provided by universities
to their journals throughcooperative efforts between
libraries and research offices.

Increase the visibility ofjournals and articles within theirown institutions, notably ininstitutional communications.

2.

5.

Credit student internships
within journals.

Impose a ratio of French-language
articles in humanities and social
sciences course outlines.

3.
Include peer review whenevaluating research activities
done by professors.
Solutions and Recommendations

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Main Recommendation

Create a horizontal, collaborative common
structure of Québec scholarly journals thatreflects their diversity.
Journals:
Organize into Communities

While they share a number of challenges and could certainly
share as many solutions, Québec scholarly journals are
atomized and their teams rarely interact with each other.

Solutions and Recommendations

Secondary Recommendations :1.

4.

Develop tools to promote Québec
scholarly journals and theresearch results they publish.

Contribute to getting
the journals heard whenit comes to their needs.

2.

5.

Produce and disseminate
outreach tools (video capsules,
social media publications, etc.)
notably about open access.

Create conditions for the
sharing of best practices
among scholarly journals.

3.

6.

Publicize existing training
resources, notably thoseoffered by libraries and digitaldissemination platforms.

Organize an annual eventfor scholarly journals.

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Main Recommendation

Provide coherent expertise to editorial teams,
notably on technical and legal issues.

Libraries and Digital Platforms:
Enhance and Standardize Services

In this era of digital publishing and dissemination, theoperations of Québec scholarly journals benefit fromtwo sources of support and expertise. On one hand,
you have platforms such as Érudit, whose support
mostly applies to the journals disseminated by its
infrastructure. On the other, some academic libraries
have librarians who specialize in scholarly publishingand provide valuable support to editorial teams, but
this is highly variable from institution to institution.

Secondary Recommendations:
1.

4.

Provide usage data, notably
statistics on article views.

Organize the pooling of certain
services (graphic design,communications, proofreading).

2.

5.

Make teams aware of theissues and best practices
surrounding discoverability(documentation, training).

Support access to editorial
management tools and their use(notably Open Journal Systems)

3.
Design and offer training courses
for journal management andleadership activities, given
the rapid turnover of teams.

Solutions and Recommendations

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Appendix 1

Organization of
the Symposium québécois
des revues savantes

The Symposium québécois des revues
savantes, organized by Acfas and Érudit on
November 20,2023, in Montreal, brought
together more than forty journal editors tofreely discuss the issues that impact theireditorial practices and their operations ingeneral. A number of librarians specializingin scholarly publishing also took part in theseexchanges, as they represent the privileged
point of contact between the journals andtheir home institutions, providing support

and advice. The day ended with a plenary
session, aimed at sharing the main points
coming out of the workshops for each of thethree areas discussed. The event managed tobring together several stakeholders from thescientific publishing ecosystem in Québec,highlighting once again the importance ofcommunication and consultation in ensuring
the vitality of the field.

World Café

Acknowledgements
The success of the Symposium was made possible by the engagementof several people, and we want to personally thank:
THE MEMBERS OF THE
STEERING COMMITEE

Anne-Marie Fortier – Études littéraires
Jean-Sébastien Fallu – Drogues, santé et société
Kristine Plouffe-Malette – Revue québécoise de droit international
Léon Robichaud – Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
Denise Tousignant – Le naturaliste canadien

THE WORKSHOPHOSTSSamuel Dinel – Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations
Marc-André Éthier – Revue des sciences de l’éducation
Maude Laplante-Dubé – Bibliothécaire à l’Université Laval
Pierre Lasou – Bibliothécaire à l’Université Laval
Michael Miller – Bibliothécaire à l’Université McGill
Marie-Hélène Vézina – Bibliothécaire à l’Université de Montréal
Alec Larose – Consultant in academic pedagogy at the Université Laval,for his support and organizational efforts during the day

THE EVENTPARTNERS

Acfas
Érudit Consortium
Fonds de recherche du Québec
All the participants!

The Symposium was organized as a series of workshops based on theWorld Café principles. World Café is a method designed to facilitate aconstructive dialogue and a sharing of ideas and knowledge, by recreatinga café atmosphere where participants can discuss in small groups.
At regular intervals, participants change tables, while the person who hosts
the discussion remains at their table to give a summary of the previous
conversation to the new group. This process allows ongoing conversations
to be enriched by the previous conversations in which the participants took
part. At the end of the event, the main ideas are summarized during a generalsession where the proposals are put forward for discussion.

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Appendix 2

List of the 44 Journals
Represented at
the Symposium

Animation, territoires et pratiques socioculturelles

Frontières

Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke

Humain et Organisation

Partnership – Revue canadienne de la pratiqueet de la ­recherche en bibliothéconomie etsciences de l’information

Apprendre et enseigner aujourd’hui
Bulletin d’histoire politique

The International Journal of Whole Person Care

Politique et SociétésCahiers de recherche sociologiqueIntervention

Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations

Science of Nursing and Health Practices /Science infirmière et pratiques en santéCahiers Société

Le Naturaliste canadien

Revue d’arbitrage et de médiation

Captures

Les Cahiers de la Société québécoisede ­recherche en musique (SQRM)

Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

Circuit, musiques contemporaines
Communitas
Cygne noir
Documentation et bibliothèques
Drogues, santé et société

Lex Electronica
McGill Law Journal / Revue de droit de McGill
Mesure et évaluation en éducation
Meta. Journal des traducteurs

Enfances, Familles, Générations

Multimodalité (s). Revue de recherchesen ­littératie médiatique multimodale

Ethnologies

Nouvelles pratiques sociales

Études Inuit Studies

Revue de l’Association québécoisedes ­enseignants de français langue seconde(AQEFLS)
Revue des sciences de l’éducation
Revue internationale Animation, territoireset ­pratiques socioculturelles

Revue québécoise de psychologie

Sens public
Sociologie et Sociétés
Surfaces
Télescope / Management international
TTR – Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction
VertigO

Revue internationale des technologies
en ­pédagogie universitaire
Revue québécoise de droit international

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A Few Picturesfrom the Event

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Long live scholarly journals!