He was also named "Leiter Lecturer" at the National Library of Medicine in 1998. He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal "Surfaces" (started in 1991) and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. He is also on the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities. He has won academic prizes such as Prix International Charles Hélou de la francophonie (1996) and the Excellence Prize of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005. In 2018, the Jean-Claude Guédon Prize was established to reward "the best article on the issues of scholarly publications and/or open access."