> > From: Erin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > “ALTERNATIVES” MAGAZINE THREATENED > LAST CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE MAY BE SHUTDOWN BYFEDERAL AGENCY > > For more than 28 years, “Alternatives” magazine, created in 1971, > published out of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, has been > providing Canada with excellent environmental information and > advanced thinking on many of the emerging issues. Other great > Canadian environmental magazines like “Probe Post” and “Ecolutions” > have disappeared, leaving “Alternatives” as the last major Canadian > magazine. Now its very survival is at stake. Its annual $30,000 funding > from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada > (SSHRC) is being stopped by the Council. > > Dr. Robert Gibson, long time Editor of “Alternatives” said that, > “Alternatives is the official publishing vehicle of the Environmental > Studies Association of Canada, which represents scholars in universities > across Canada and is part of the Humanities and Social Sciences > Federation of Canada. It is heavily used in university libraries and its > contents are widely adopted as university course text material. To us > this suggests that our approach is indeed appropriate. Alternatives is a > successful, if atypical, scholarly journal that actually does reach a > wide audience of scholars and practitioners.” > > The funding was provided by SSHRC through the Aid to Research > and Transfer Journals Program, under the Ministry of Industry Canada. > The SSHRC decision to end its annual funding was based on an > adjudication committee's assessment which apparently concluded that the > journal does not meet the SSHRC transfer journal criteria. Yet the > journal had met the criteria for the last decade and has not changed its > basic intellectual approach. So why now? What is different? What would > cause the SSHRC to change its mind? It doesn’t make sense. > > If you want to save Canada’s last prestigious environmental > journal, write or call, Marc Renaud, President, SSHRC, Tower II, 10th > Floor, Constitution Square, 350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1610, Ottawa, > Ontario K1P 6G4, Ph. (613) 995548, email [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Their website is <http://www.sshrc.ca/>http://www.sshrc.ca/ > > You should also contact the Hon. Sheila Copps, Minister of Heritage, > responsible for Canada’s culture and cultural publications like > magazines. As well, you may also wish to contact the Hon. John Manley, > Minister, Industry Canada, 235 Queen St., Ottawa. He is the Minister > responsible for SSHRC, and indirectly, for the funding for > “Alternatives”. Contact him at ph. (613) 995- 9001, Fax (613) 992 0302, > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Erin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> “ALTERNATIVES” MAGAZINE THREATENED LAST CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE MAY BE SHUTDOWN BYFEDERAL AGENCY For more than 28 years, “Alternatives” magazine, created in 1971, published out of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, has been providing Canada with excellent environmental information and advanced thinking on many of the emerging issues. Other great Canadian environmental magazines like “Probe Post” and “Ecolutions” have disappeared, leaving “Alternatives” as the last major Canadian magazine. Now its very survival is at stake. Its annual $30,000 funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is being stopped by the Council. Dr. Robert Gibson, long time Editor of “Alternatives” said that, “Alternatives is the official publishing vehicle of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, which represents scholars in universities across Canada and is part of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. It is heavily used in university libraries and its contents are widely adopted as university course text material. To us this suggests that our approach is indeed appropriate. Alternatives is a successful, if atypical, scholarly journal that actually does reach a wide audience of scholars and practitioners.” The funding was provided by SSHRC through the Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Program, under the Ministry of Industry Canada. The SSHRC decision to end its annual funding was based on an adjudication committee's assessment which apparently concluded that the journal does not meet the SSHRC transfer journal criteria. Yet the journal had met the criteria for the last decade and has not changed its basic intellectual approach. So why now? What is different? What would cause the SSHRC to change its mind? It doesn’t make sense. If you want to save Canada’s last prestigious environmental journal, write or call, Marc Renaud, President, SSHRC, Tower II, 10th Floor, Constitution Square, 350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1610, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6G4, Ph. (613) 995548, email [EMAIL PROTECTED], Their website is <http://www.sshrc.ca/>http://www.sshrc.ca/ You should also contact the Hon. Sheila Copps, Minister of Heritage, responsible for Canada’s culture and cultural publications like magazines. As well, you may also wish to contact the Hon. John Manley, Minister, Industry Canada, 235 Queen St., Ottawa. He is the Minister responsible for SSHRC, and indirectly, for the funding for “Alternatives”. Contact him at ph. (613) 995- 9001, Fax (613) 992 0302, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
