Jean-Claude Guédon
| Jean-Claude Guédon | |
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 Jean-Claude Guédon at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 30, 2008) |
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| Born | 1943 Le Havre, France |
| Nationality | France |
| Fields | history of sciences |
| Alma mater | Clarkson University University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943 in Le Havre, France) is a Quebec-based academic.[1]
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Education [edit]
In 1960-1, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York (U.S.).[2] He went on to study chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York and finally earned a Ph.D. in history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974.[3]
Academic career [edit]
He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario in 1970 and has been a professor at the Université de Montréal 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 Internet Society serving as co-chair of the program committee in 1996, 1998 and 2000, and member of the same committee in 1997, 1999 and 2002.[4]
Scholarly activities [edit]
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).[4] From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of OSI's Information Program sub-board. Since 2003, he is a member of the Advisory Board of eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries).[5] In 2006 he was elected (until November 2008) Vice-President of the Canadian Society for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His portfolio is "dissemination of research".[6]
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.[7]
He was also named "Leiter Lecturer" at the National Library of Medicine in 1998.[8] He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991)[9] and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory.[10] He has also won a few prizes such as Prix International Charles Hélou de la francophonie (1996)[4] and the Excellence Prize of the Society for Digital Humanities (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005.[11]
Publications [edit]
- Guédon, Jean Claude (2001), In Oldenburg's Long Shadow : Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, ISBN 01980068130
- Guédon, Jean Claude (2007), Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science, in "Como gerir e qualificar revistas científicas", 2008.
References [edit]
- ^ "Times Higher Education - Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas". www.timeshighereducation.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ http://www.inria.fr/actualites/colloques/2000/COLLOQUIUM191220-fra.html
- ^ http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57298/3/speakerinfo.pdf
- ^ a b c http://web.archive.org/web/20100124195638/http://www.littco.umontreal.ca/personnel/guedon_j-c.htm
- ^ http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BC203/%28httpPeople%29/298265E0AD752641C1256EDA002EAFA8?OpenDocument
- ^ http://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright/open-access-and-academy-lively-discussion-future-scholarly-publishing
- ^ http://open.utoronto.ca/indexe1b9.html?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=235
- ^ http://www.ifla.org/VII/s2/pub/no29.pdf
- ^ http://pager.uregina.ca/contexts/guedon.html
- ^ http://openhumanitiespress.org/steering-group.html
- ^ http://www.crics8.org/agendas/program/person.php?lang=en&id=19
External links [edit]
- (French) [1] at the Université de Montréal
