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This paper opens three topics of discussion. After providing some social context, it describes the Synergies project, a Canadian university library/journal partnership designed to allow small Canadian social science and humanities journals to publish online. It then describes the capacities of one and the capacities and development of a second software package that are basic to the success of the project. It concludes with a description of how online publishing changes the nature of representation and thus knowledge.
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A note of explanation with regard to CFI: The federal government created CFI in 1997 to compensate for years of starving universities in the name of reducing the federal deficit. This led to a fairly decayed university-based research infrastructure, especially for scientific research. Recognizing the problem, rather than transferring the funds to the provinces to spend on universities as they saw fit and for universities to do likewise, the federal government chose to make a direct investment in research by means of CFI. (There is no federal presence in education in Canada because the constitution makes education a provincial responsibility. By far the vast majority of university funding comes from the federal government transferred to the provinces. Trouble is, the federal government is powerless to stipulate how the provinces spend those funds on universities or in areas that are federal government priorities. Hence, by directing funds through CFI to research, the federal government could assure itself that its funds would indeed be spent on this targeted activity.)
Thanks to Kate Andropov for drafting this summary based on PKP-provided information.
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This paper was largely written by Rowland Lorimer with needed assistance from John Maxwell. Thanks are given to the following colleagues who have contributed measurably to the content and writing of this paper. They are Richard Smith, Stephen Osborne, Lynn Copeland, Brian Owen, Michael Felczak, John Willinsky, Kate Andronov and the Synergies group, Guylaine Beaudry, Gérard Boismenu, Alan Burk, Gwen Ebbett, David Moorman, Frits Pannekoek, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, and Karen Turko. Were this a scientific journal article, probably they would all be co-authors.
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Lorimer, R., Maxwell, J. Canadian Social Science and Humanities Online Journal Publishing, the Synergies Project, and the Creation and Representation of Knowledge. Pub Res Q 23, 175–193 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-007-9011-5
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