Canada Foundation for Innovation renews its support for Coalition Publica
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Coalition Publica will strengthen its digital services to the Canadian and international scholarly community with continued investment from CFI.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is awarding a $10 million grant to Coalition Publica under the Major Science Initiatives Fund 2023-2029. Through this program, CFI contributes to the ongoing operation and maintenance needs of research facilities of national importance in order to enable Canadian researchers to undertake world-class research.
Coalition Publica is developing an open, non-commercial infrastructure for digital research, dissemination, and scholarly publishing. It is based on the complementarity between the publishing software Open Journal Systems, developed by the Public Knowledge Project (Simon Fraser University (SFU)), and the erudit.org dissemination platform of the Érudit Consortium (Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université du Québec à Montréal), two leading technological solutions dedicated to open access and open science. In collaboration with the editorial teams of more than 250 scholarly and cultural journals, Coalition Publica also offers access to the largest corpus of Canadian research results in the humanities and social sciences. More than 220,000 publications are available, and 8,000 new articles are disseminated each year. Rich and diverse, the collections are representative of Canadian and international research and creation: archaeology, economics, history, literary studies, psychology, education... They are consulted each year by nearly 6 million users worldwide.
"Research in the humanities and social sciences is essential to help us better understand the world we live in, and to offer concrete solutions to today's problems, including climate change, economic crises and social inequalities," says Marie-Josée Hébert, Vice-Rector of Research, Discovery, Creation and Innovation at Université de Montréal. "The publications disseminated by Coalition Publica present the results of this research, and thus contribute to the development of an informed citizenry in an era increasingly dominated by the phenomenon of fake news. CFI's investment in our facility will help improve the discoverability of these publications and promote their access around the world," she adds.
Open access and open science are at the heart of Coalition Publica, which is committed to sustaining scholarly journals in a rapidly changing environment. "Coalition Publica's activities have grown significantly in recent years, both in terms of the size of the corpus disseminated and the number of journals supported, as well as in the number of users accessing the collections," says Dugan O’Neil, SFU’s Vice-President, Research and International. "CFI's investment in our facility will support this growth, but more importantly, it will help to raise the profile of Canadian research in the humanities and social sciences, and position Canada as a world leader in digital publishing and open science," he concludes.
Supported by CFI and a network of partners in Canada and abroad, Coalition Publica will continue to strengthen its national production, dissemination, and research infrastructure in English and French, based on the principles of open access and open source development.
Contact Persons :
Gwendal Henry - Communications Advisor, Érudit - gwendal.henry@erudit.org
Kevin Stranack - Director of Operations, PKP - kevin_stranack@sfu.ca
About Coalition Publica
Coalition Publica is a partnership created by Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project dedicated to the advancement of research dissemination and digital publishing in the social sciences and humanities in Canada, specifically designed to support the SSH community in the transition towards sustainable open access. Coalition Publica will pursue this goal through the development of a non-commercial, open source national infrastructure dedicated to digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research—combining PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) software and Érudit’s digital dissemination platform (erudit.org). https://www.coalition-publi.ca/
About the Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a multi-university initiative that develops open source (free) software to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. PKP’s flagship software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), is a journal management and publishing system that assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Over 275 Canadian journals and over 32,000 journals worldwide use OJS. https://pkp.sfu.ca/
About Érudit
Érudit is an inter-university consortium that provides research and cultural communities with a wide range of services in digital publishing and dissemination. The Érudit platform—erudit.org—is the leading digital dissemination platform of SSH research in Canada. It hosts over 240 journals and its collections are consulted by the research community and the general public, including the members of over 1100 institutions worldwide. https://www.erudit.org/