Jean-Claude Guédon | |
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![]() Jean-Claude Guédon at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 30, 2008) | |
Born | 1943 |
Nationality | French |
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]
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]
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]
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 the Open Society Institute'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 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005. [11] In 2018, the Jean-Claude Guédon Prize was established to reward "the best article on the issues of scholarly publications and/or open access." [12]
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Jean-Claude Guédon | |
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![]() Jean-Claude Guédon at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 30, 2008) | |
Born | 1943 |
Nationality | French |
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]
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]
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]
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 the Open Society Institute'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 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005. [11] In 2018, the Jean-Claude Guédon Prize was established to reward "the best article on the issues of scholarly publications and/or open access." [12]
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