Canadian Literature has just turned 55! Since the first web server was activated in 1991, our online presence has grown in ways we never could have imagined. Over the last two decades, we have developed a robust website of new book reviews, video and transcribed interviews, and databases of Canadian publishers, poets, and scholars; the dedicated submission system CanLit Submit; our popular teaching resource CanLit Guides; and an engaged social media presence on Facebook and Twitter. We’ve been working hard to keep up—by the time we turn 60, we know that everything will have changed again.
New ways of thinking about knowledge and its dissemination have encouraged us to remodel our online connections. We are excited to announce that we are currently preparing a new website and moving to Open Journal Systems to enhance our interactions with CanLit readers, contributors, and peers. With these developments, we hope to improve our open access commitments, ease of submissions, and connections with the broader community.
We hope you’ll like the new website and submissions system as much as we do, and thank you again for 55 years of support!