ON THE PUBLISHER’S TRACKS: PRESENTATION OF A PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH PROJECT ON FRENCH-LANGUAGE PUBLISHING ARCHIVES

Abstract

This paper aims to present the research partnership project of francophone publishers’ archives, which made the platform possible. This project gathered archivists and researchers from various institutions (universities, archives centers, publishers’ associations) and various regions (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland) in the francophone world, with the main objectives to advance and to study archives of the publishing world. The article focuses on the birth of the partnership project, on the internet platform Archives éditoriales, and on other outcomes of the project. It also addresses the questions of why, how and when publishing houses tend to donate their archives to public institutions.