Member Benefits
Since 1990 the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) has served the scholarly journal publishing community. Benefits of membership include services to members of CALJ, industry initiatives for the journals, and enhanced strengths for individual journals and collective strengths for the journal community.
Services to CALJ members
- Best Practices Guide to Scholarly Journal Publishing (1997 and 2007 editions)
- Professional development for journal managers and editors
- Travel subsidy to attend professional development events
- CALJ member web pages on the CALJ website
- Marketing and promotion: Congress book fair booth, full-colour print directory
- International marketing: three-year pilot program in China
- Collective advertising: University Affairs and Congress delegate’s guide
- Industry resources: legal opinion document, LAC document, eco-kit
- Liaison with SSHRC, CFHSS and other organizations
- Executive Director’s quarterly report and other industry news
- CALJ listserve for the membership
Industry initiatives and enhancing collective strengths
- Collaboration with University Affairs to identify shared interests and mutual benefits for CALJ, member journals, University Affairs and the research community.
- Transitioning the CALJ membership application and renewal process online to include annual data capture for analysis, reported to the membership.
- Collaboration with the Public Knowledge Project to promote electronic editions and/or back issue content online.
- Consultation and with industry stakeholders in Canada and internationally to identify areas of chief concern on the horizon for scholarly journal publishing.
- Identifying collaborative partners to engage in workshops and research.
- Bringing together the collective strengths of more than 200 journal professionals: journal managers and scholars serving as journal editors.
Join the CALJ community and strengthen the journal industry: click here to complete the online membership form.
