Registration is open for 2025 Canada Student Journal Forum

PKP, an organizing partner, invites students involved in or interested in student journals to register for the Canada Student Journal Forum happening February 18 – 20, 2025.

Registration is now open for the Canada Student Journal Forum 2025, February 18 – 20, 2025. Now in its 10th year, this free online event is open to everyone, and has a specific focus on post-secondary students in Canada who are involved with, interested in, or considering starting a student journal.

This year’s forum includes talks from Canadian student journal teams, as well as skill sessions and panels from folks who will share their experience.

Details

Learn from student journal presenters about publishing practices, building community, journal growth, quality control, supporting student capacities, going national, interdisciplinary procedures, promoting research, reach, impact, publishing workflows, knowledge mobilization, continuance, brand consistency, and more!

Learn from panelists and skill sessions about student editor grants, project management, open access, copyediting, artificial intelligence in scholarly publishing, and careers in scholarly publishing.

Here’s a brief breakdown of what to expect and be sure to check out the full program for all the details.

February 18, 2025

(3 hours 30 minutes with breaks)

• Panel – Student Editor Grants: A Funding Opportunity from Coalition Publica
• Student presentations
  • Going Beyond Publications: Optimizing Publishing Practices and Building Community Engagement in Undergraduate Research
  • Student Journal Growth & Quality Control
  • Supporting Graduate Students’ Capacity as Authors and Editors
  • Going National: Lessons Learned from Opening Up Submissions to Authors Across Canada
  • Globalizing ‘The Mirror’: Taking Your Journal International
  • The Meducator’s Blueprint: Crafting Efficient Interdisciplinary Procedures For A Student Journal 
• Skill Session – Planning for Success: Project Management for Journal Editors

February 19, 2025

(3 hours 45 minutes with breaks)

• Panel – Student Journals and Open Access: An Important Part of a Big Movement
• Student presentations
  • Promouvoir la recherche dans les domaines d’études appliquées
  • Reviving Student Journals: Lessons from a ‘Selected Works’ Approach
  • Knowledge Mobilization from Within: Digital & Arts-Based Publishing
  • “This could die on a vine”: Keeping a Student Journal Alive
  • Publishing, Privilege, and Passion: The Costs of Culture
  • A Guide to Support Journal Editorial Processes             
• Skill Session – Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Publishing

February 20, 2025

(4 hours with breaks)

• Panel – You Can Do That? Careers in Scholarly Publishing
• Student presentations
  • Beyond Boundaries: Expanding Reach and Impact in Student-Led Academic Publishing with Eureka
  • Knowledge Gaps, Resource Sharing and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Undergraduate Student Publishing
  • Annual Review Panel vs Editorial Board: What is the Difference and Why Should I Care?
  • The Long Game: Developing Brand Consistency in Student Publications
  • Inclusive, Alternate Approaches to Truth: Undergraduate Philosophy in the UBC Journal of Philosophical Enquiries
  • Resurrecting a student journal: Reflections on identity, scope, and relevance    
• Skill Session – Revising for Journal Copyediting

SJF 2025 Organizers and Sponsors

This year’s SJF is jointly organized by individuals from Carleton University, Érudit, Mount Royal University, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser University, Université de Montréal, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Regina, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, and York University. Check out the Co-Chairs and Committee Members on the Full Program.

This event is sponsored by the University of Toronto Libraries, PKP, and Coalition Publica.

Sign up for Forum updates

Join the listserv for student journal editors in Canada to receive news and updates about SJF 2025 and other events for editors. You can also initiate a discussion and make connections with fellow editors via the listserv.

Subscribe to the listserv or contact Shelby Thaysen to be added.

Contact Us

Questions about the event? Please contact Shelby Thaysen Co-Chair of SJF 2025, by email at shelby.thaysen@utoronto.ca

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