Jean-Claude Guédon
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![]() Jean-Claude Guédon at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 30, 2008) | |
Born | 1943 |
Nationality | France |
Alma mater | Clarkson University University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History of science |
Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943 in Le Havre, France) is a Quebec-based academic.[1]
Education
In 1960-61, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York (US).[2] He went on to study chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York and earned a Ph.D. in history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974.[3]
Academic career
He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario in 1970. He 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
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. From 2003-2007 he was 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.
He was also named "Leiter Lecturer" at the National Library of Medicine in 1998.[7] He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991)[8] and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory.[9] He is also on the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities.[10] He has won academic 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
- Guédon, Jean Claude (2001), In Oldenburg's Long Shadow : Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, ISBN 0-918006-81-3
- Guédon, Jean Claude (2007), Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science, in "Como gerir e qualificar revistas científicas", 2008.
References
- ^ Watts, Geoff. "Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ Inria. "Agenda - Inria". Inria.
- ^ "Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization" (PDF). Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ a b c "GUÉDON, Jean-Claude". Université de Montréal. Archived from the original on January 24, 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
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- ^ "Open Access and the Academy: A Lively Discussion on The Future of Scholarly Publishing". University of Michigan. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ "Section on University Libraries & General Research Libraries: Newsletter" (PDF). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ http://pager.uregina.ca/contexts/guedon.html
- ^ "About - Steering Group". Open Humanities Press. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ Howard, Jennifer (29 January 2013). "Project Aims to Bring PLoS-Style Openness to the Humanities". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ "Jean-Claude Guédon". CRICS 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. Retrieved 26 August 2013.