Joanie Lavoie is Director of Operations (Directrice des operations) of the Érudit Consortium, located in Montreal, Quebec. After completing her studies in literature and publishing, as well as a Masters in Arts and Culture management, she decided to apply her keen interest in the digital environment to the service of scholarly publishers. She joined Érudit in 2011 as the Journal Manager, responsible for increasing the visibility of Canadian Frenchlanguage journals in the national and international market. She is now the Director of Operations and has been a driving force in the partnership for open access with the Canadian research libraries since its inception, and is responsible for implementing the economic outcomes of this shift to open access with the publishers Érudit represents.