Professor Vincent Larivière has been acting as Érudit’s scientific director since April 2015. As such, Prof. Larivière takes part in planning Érudit’s main strategic approaches and acts as a spokesperson for the organization in the academic community. He also contributes to the conversation around the issues that affect scholarly journals, namely open access and support to the French-language dissemination of research results.
Érudit is a consortium comprised of three Canadian universities: Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and Université du Québec à Montréal. It is governed by representatives from the research, university library, and scholarly publishing sectors.
Governing Board
Frédéric Bouchard
President
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de Montréal
Loubna Ghaouti
Vice-President
Library Director, Université Laval
Frédéric Giuliano
Secretary-treasurer
Executive Director, Library Services, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Members
Stéphanie Gagnon
Executive Director, Direction des bibliothèques, Université de Montréal
Mar González Palacios
Associate Dean of Libraries, Collections & Content Strategy, Simon Fraser University
Francis Gingras
Professor, Département des littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal, Scientific Director, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal
Pascale Fournier
Professor and Research Chair in Legal Pluralism and Comparative Law, University of Ottawa
Kevin Kee
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor, University of Ottawa
Richard Marcoux
Professor of Sociology, Université Laval, Director of the Observatoire démographique et statistique de l’espace francophone (ODSEF), Adjunct professor of Demographics at Université de Montréal, Managing editor of the Cahiers québécois de démographie
Michel J. Tremblay
Full Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, and Canada Research Chair in Human Immuno-Retrovirology, Associate Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Innovation, Université Laval
Martha Radice
Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Observing Members
Katell Colin
Director of Programmes and Partnership Development, Fonds de recherche du Québec en Société et culture (FRQSC).
Laëtitia Crémona
Research Advisor and Assistant to the Vice-Rector (interim), Université de Montréal.
Louis Houle
CRKN Representative, Director of Collections, McGill University Library
Vincent Larivière
Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Scientific Director, Érudit.
Tanja Niemann
Executive Director, Érudit Consortium.
Scientific Director and Committee
Vincent Larivière is an expert on the new modes of research dissemination and holds the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal. He is Assistant Professor at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information and Deputee Scientific Director of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies.
Scientific committee
The purpose of the scientific committee is to support Érudit in its ongoing developments and orientations. It is comprised of:
René Audet
Professor of French Literature, Director of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises, Université Laval
Frédéric Bouchard
Professor of Philosophy, Associate Vice-Rector of Research, Discovery, Creation, and Innovation at the Université de Montréal and holder of the philosophy chair ÉSOPE, Université de Montréal
Vincent Larivière
Associate Professor of Library and Information Sciences, Holder of the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal
Chloé Leclerc
Associate Professor of Criminology, Université de Montréal, Editor of Criminologie
Richard Marcoux
Professor of Sociology, Université Laval, Director of the Observatoire démographique et statistique de l’espace francophone (ODSEF), Adjunct professor of Demographics at Université de Montréal, Managing editor of Cahiers québécois de démographie
Benoît Melançon
Professor of French Literature, Scientific director of the Presses de l’Université de Montréal, Université de Montréal
Lyne Sauvageau
Vice-President of Research and Education, Université du Québec