> Synergies project advances scholarly publishing
Synergies project advances scholarly publishing
February 23, 2007
Simon Fraser University is leading a pair of national projects that promise to revolutionize social sciences and humanities scholarly publishing in Canada.
SFU will receive $685,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, matched by SFU, for the Synergies project, to be led by SFU Librarian Lynn Copeland and Rowland Lorimer, director of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing (CCSP).
The project will result in a national network for the production, storage and access to digitized knowledge produced in Canada, including peer-reviewed journal articles, datasets, theses, conference proceedings, scholarly books, and other unpublished material.
As a result of Synergies, researchers from across the country and around the world will be able to access Canadian scholarly material using a common searching tool, including 170 journals currently receiving funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
The SFU Library will also receive $314,000 from CFI, matched with funds from SFU, to establish a digital infrastructure that will give researchers at 67 universities electronic access to an extensive range of social sciences and humanities key content from around the world.
An earlier CFI-funded initiative, the Canadian National Site Licensing Project, provided comparable resources for researchers working in the fields of science, technology and medicine.
SFU will receive $685,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, matched by SFU, for the Synergies project, to be led by SFU Librarian Lynn Copeland and Rowland Lorimer, director of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing (CCSP).
The project will result in a national network for the production, storage and access to digitized knowledge produced in Canada, including peer-reviewed journal articles, datasets, theses, conference proceedings, scholarly books, and other unpublished material.
As a result of Synergies, researchers from across the country and around the world will be able to access Canadian scholarly material using a common searching tool, including 170 journals currently receiving funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
The SFU Library will also receive $314,000 from CFI, matched with funds from SFU, to establish a digital infrastructure that will give researchers at 67 universities electronic access to an extensive range of social sciences and humanities key content from around the world.
An earlier CFI-funded initiative, the Canadian National Site Licensing Project, provided comparable resources for researchers working in the fields of science, technology and medicine.