Online Publishing and Canadian Social Science and Humanities Journals: Financial and Publishing Survey and the SYNERGIES Project

Abstract

In the context of a proposal to create a Canadian online research communication network for the social sciences and humanities, a survey was undertaken to gain access to the benchmark publishing and financial realities of Canada's current social science and humanities journals. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire and telephone interviews. The results of the survey are discussed in terms of realities of online publishing and some proposals are brought forward for the creation of an online publishing initiative that would allow Canadian journals to create and maintain an online presence.