Call for papers:
/Canadian Journal of Higher Education/
Special Issue: Open Access in Higher Education
The increasing adoption of an Open Access approach to knowledge
production and dissemination has presented the higher education
community with a wide range of challenges and opportunities. The
/Canadian Journal of Higher Education/ endeavours to provide
leadership in the field of higher education by fostering a
dialogue on this multifaceted topic. In this special issue, we
invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the
following:
models of Open Access (e.g., financing structures; open review;
self-archiving in central, distributed or thematic depositories);
evaluation of Open Access journal content, including open peer
review, new metrics (e.g., downloads, hits);
the relationship between libraries and Open Access journals
(setting up and managing repositories, consortial support for
Open Access publications, repository consortia);
Open Access and learned societies;
Open Access and publishers;
Open Access and the academic career: graduate student
publications, tenure, promotion, and issues of citation;
Open Access and funding agencies: mandating issues (e.g., SSHRC,
CIHR, NIH, Wellcome Trust)
Open Access and Open Data;
Open Access in the humanities and the social sciences: the issue
of Open-Access monographs;
promotion and growth: building readership, authors, and
reviewers; creating visibility authority and prestige;
Open Access and the promotion of national publications;
key benefits and challenges of Open Access; the OA “Advantage”
Open Access and the relationship of the wider public to knowledge;
Open Access and shifting power systems of knowledge in Canada and
beyond;
the impact of Open Access initiatives on university research;
Open Access and issues of participation, citizenship, and democracy.
We particularly welcome interdisciplinary, inter-provincial, and
international comparative approaches with Canada on this topic.
Also, we encourage submissions on Open Access that address the
diversity of provincial, national and international contexts in
which Canadian higher education operates
This issue will be published in December 2009. The deadline for
submissions is as follows:
Working titles and abstracts (1000 words) in either English or
French, are due March 31, 2009. Authors who are invited to submit
papers will be notified by April 30, 2009.
Invited full papers of 5000 to 7,500 words (firm maximum) are due
July 31, 2009.
All papers will undergo a full blind peer review process.
Final revisions are due on October 30, 2009.
Articles may be submitted in the following formats: OpenOffice
(*.odt), MS-Word (*.doc or *.docx).
Please send materials to
Dr. Jean-Claude Guédon
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Open Access
Littérature comparée, Université de Montréal
email: jean.claude.guedon_at_umontreal.ca
Phone: 514-343-6208 (office); 514-288-8857 (home)
Fax: 514-343-2211
Sincerely,
Lesley Andres
Editor, CJHE
Received on Fri Feb 13 2009 - 09:12:23 EST