Documenting the Canadian scholarly journal landscape: an open dataset for the community
The subject of numerous studies in recent years, Canadian scholarly journals are essential for the dissemination of Canadian research. However, it remains difficult to get an overall picture of the composition of these journals. Recently, Coalition Publica has developed and published a detailed, open inventory of the historic and active journals that make up the national research dissemination landscape. In this one-hour webinar, we presented the methodology behind its creation, provided some insights offered by its analysis, and demonstrated how it is already being put to use by different actors in the field.
A valuable resource for the Canadian scholarly publishing community, we invite stakeholders to actively participate in its enrichment, and provide detailed information on how the community can provide feedback to keep it current so we can collectively track the development of this precious national ecosystem.
This presentation took place mainly in English (see the original slides), with French translation of presented content made available. Questions and discussion in French were welcome.
Presenters
Sarah Polkinghorne
Sarah Polkinghorne is a Collection Strategies Librarian at the University of Alberta. She is leading the implementation of the U of A Library’s SciFree Journal Search Tool, which includes data from the list of Canadian scholarly journals.
Simon van Bellen
Simon van Bellen is Senior Research Advisor at Érudit. He aims to explore various aspects of scholarly communication, especially patterns in the use of scholarly journals, the development of open access and the evaluation of impact of research and publication.
Mathieu Pigeon
Mathieu Pigeon is a specialist librarian at Université de Montréal. He is responsible for open access, journal support and scholarly communication and is a member of the CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team.
How to access the data
The directory is published in the Borealis repository under a CC BY licence and is updated regularly: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/9ONCEU
The Canadian journal data are corrected and updated thanks to a collective effort. In order to optimize this effort, a version open to comments and suggestions is available.
For more information see our For Research page, in the Open datasets section, or contact us at corpus@erudit.org.
