Science and Research committee  Thank you for the question. I fully support it. Every day, my work at Érudit aims to promote open access and outreach. We consider ourselves lucky to have the support we already have from the governments of Quebec and Canada. However, in order to grow, have a greater reach and

Science and Research committee  I am very much in favour of that. We have to find ways to do it.

Science and Research committee  Yes, of course. Érudit has an annual budget of about $4.3 million, approximately 18% of which comes from founding universities. Their contribution includes, for instance, financing the space that my team of 40 Érudit employees uses at the University of Montreal. Sometimes, the f

Science and Research committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's really important to have a national plan for open science and open access. Such a plan must be linked to research funding and grants programs. What is going on right now in university libraries must be taken into account as well, becaus

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much for that question. Érudit is a platform that is almost 25 years old and growing every year. With its current capacity, 20 to 25 new titles can be added each year, sometimes 30. Very few of them are in French. They are mostly bilingual or come from English-onl

Science and Research committee  I believe that there is still an enormous amount of consultation to be done and that we need a more global approach.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. Yes, indeed, it is very important. These are directives, policies and policy movements that governments currently adhere to, that are in favour of open science and open access. In Europe, Plan S, developed by cOAlition S, requires governments to subscribe t

Science and Research committee  I do not know those figures because they concern other disciplines, not the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I am not sure if those figures are comparable in my field. That being said, I think there is a perception that we would have better luck if we submitted a

Science and Research committee  I believe that if we dedicate more resources specifically to French publications and support this in more than the usual way, we can increase the attractiveness of publishing and submitting these requests in French. The cost may sometimes be higher when it comes to journal publ

Science and Research committee  It has increased because we really worked very hard on that. We tried to make good progress and show it to the funding agencies. We were successful in the grant applications. Every year, during the last three or four years, I did a major grant application with my team to work o

Science and Research committee  Yes. It's not only French-speaking, though. After Canada, it's France. Then it's the U.S. Then it's countries like Germany, where we have heavy research countries. Then it's other countries from the Francophonie—mainly Belgium, Cameroon, Algeria and so on.

Science and Research committee  Thank you for the question. There is a heavy tendency of publishing in English for, I think, everybody working in universities and the academic sector because there's this predominance of English as the lingua franca in science. Nonetheless, we have a lot of colleagues in Euro

Science and Research committee  Yes, that is correct. We are a platform and a disseminator. We are not a publisher. We work with more than 200 journals that are independent editorial entities and have a production and dissemination contract with Érudit. We bring together content produced independently on our

Science and Research committee  Thank you. Thank you for the question. We work in human and social sciences. Érudit was founded in Quebec with a view to preserving a place of publication for French journals in order to prevent commercial publishers from buying them up and ultimately not publishing them becau

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good evening, members of the committee. Thank you for having me. The team and the members of Consortium Érudit join me in saying that we are honoured to testify as part of this important study on research and publication in French. From the outs