Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943 in

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) is a

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-based

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Education

In 1960-61, he was an

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in Kenmore East Senior High School in

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( US). He went on to study

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and earned a Ph.D. in

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at the

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in 1974.

Academic career

He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in

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in 1970. He has been a professor at the ''

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'' since 1973, first in the ''Institut d'histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences'' and, since 1987, in the ''Département de littérature comparée''. He is a long-time member of the

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serving as co-chair of the program committee in 1996, 1998 and 2000, and member of the same committee in 1997, 1999 and 2002.

Scholarly activities

Between 1998 and 2003, he was Chair of the Advisory Board for CNSLP (Canadian National Site Licence Project, now known as CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge network). From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of the

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's Information Program sub-board. From 2003-2007 he was a member of the Advisory Board of eIFL ( Electronic Information for Libraries). In 2006 he was elected (until November 2008) Vice-President of the

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. His portfolio is "dissemination of research". He has advised numerous governmental bodies, including the ''Ministère de la Recherche'' (France) for their e-publication project in the humanities and the social sciences; the ''Agence de la francophonie'' for matters pertaining to new technologies; the Quebec Minister of Communication in charge of the information highway; and the Quebec Ministry of education for the integration of the new technologies into the curriculum. He was also named "Leiter Lecturer" at the

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in 1998. He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal ''Surfaces'' (started in 1991) and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international

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publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. He is also on the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee of the

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. He has won academic prizes such as Prix International Charles Hélou de la francophonie (1996) and the Excellence Prize of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005. In 2018, the Jean-Claude Guédon Prize was established to reward "the best article on the issues of scholarly publications and/or open access."

Publications

* Guédon, Jean Claude (2001),
In Oldenburg's Long Shadow : Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing
',

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, * Guédon, Jean Claude (2007),
Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science
'', in "Como gerir e qualificar revistas científicas", 2008. * Interview with Guédon (2015)
Crystals of Knowledge Production. An Intercontinental Conversation about Open Science and the Humanities
in ''Nordic Perspectives on Open Science'' 1.

References

External links

faculty profile
at the

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guedon, Jean Claude Canadian educators Living people 1943 births Open access activists Academic staff of Glendon College