Canadian Science Publishing has announced that effective September 1, 2021, Elaine Stott has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. With over 30 years in the publishing industry and a proven record of success transitioning subscription journals to open access, Elaine is poised to lead the next chapters for the not-for-profit—and Canada’s largest—publisher of scientific journals.
Elaine has previously held senior management roles at Taylor & Francis, Wiley–Blackwell, and Cambridge University Press. She has published journals and books on behalf of global scientific societies and led strategy and high-performing teams transitioning subscription-based journals to sustainable open access journals.
Elaine’s breadth of experience and effervescent personality pairs with Canadian Science Publishing’s small-but-mighty leadership; the Ottawa-based company founded FACETS, Canada’s first and only multidisciplinary open access science journal and was the first publisher in Canada to sign a transformative open access agreement with the world-class University of California.
Now in its 11th year of independent publishing, Canadian Science Publishing is celebrating Elaine’s arrival to the company, and to Canada, from the United Kingdom.
Elaine succeeds Suzanne Kettley who retired in June after 33 years with Canadian Science Publishing and its predecessor publisher, the National Research Council of Canada Research Press. Suzanne served as Canadian Science Publishing’s Executive Director for six years, during which time she oversaw a corporate rebrand and website redesign and extensively grew the company’s journal portfolio, including the creation of four new peer-reviewed journals.
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