Coalition Publica is led by Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), two Canadian university-based initiatives that create digital tools for and offer services to scholarly journals. It serves Canadian scholarly journal publishers, university research libraries, and researchers in the social sciences and humanities. It is supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Simon Fraser University (PKP), Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and Université du Québec à Montréal (Érudit).

Its financial assistance for scholarly journals is made possible by the Partnership for Open Access, an innovative model for collaboration between university libraries and scholarly journals established by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and Érudit, and now expanding internationally.

Coalition Publica is part of the international movement in support of open access, open science and open-source software.

Equity, diversity, inclusion

With such a broad network, Coalition Publica recognizes that equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) must be at the heart of its activities.

That’s why EDI is one of the core values in Coalition Publica’s Strategic Plan, and why Érudit has stated its support for EDI and PKP has implemented a Community Code of Conduct. These first steps support the equitable participation of all community members, encompassing many vectors of diversity including sex, gender, disability, Indigenous identity, ethnic background, sexual orientation, religion, age, language, lineage, immigration, geographic location and/or socioeconomic status.

Coalition Publica will continue to develop its approach to EDI to reflect the diversity of perspectives and experiences of its community.

Governance

Coalition Publica’s work is overseen by the respective governance committees of Érudit and PKP, and guided by its own expert committees and user groups.

In order to provide a framework and to encourage the practice of French-English bilingualism in its meetings, Coalition Publica has established Principles and Practices for Bilingual Meetings.

Steering Committee
(2023-2025)

Voting Members:

• Frédéric Bouchard, Chair, Érudit Board of Directors, and Dean, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal (Co-chair)

• Amy Buckland, Chair, Coalition Publica Stakeholder Advisory Committee (ex officio)

• Laëtitia Crémona, Major Initiatives Research Officer, Université de Montréal

• Stephanie Gagnon, Executive Director, Direction des bibliothèques, Université de Montréal

• Tanja Niemann, Executive Director, Érudit (ex officio)

• Dugan O’Neill, Associate Vice-President Research, Simon Fraser University

• Ray Siemens, Chair, Coalition Publica International Advisory Committee (ex officio)

• Kevin Stranack, Operations Director, PKP (ex officio)

• Marco Tullney, Chair, PKP Advisory Committee, TIB

Non-Voting Members:

• Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Director of Research, PKP

• Vincent Larivière, Scientific Director, Érudit

Stakeholder Advisory Committee
(2024-2026)

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
  Amy Buckland, University Librarian, Concordia University (Chair)

• Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)

  Joanne Smyth, Director, Collections Strategy and Scholarly Communication, University of New Brunswick Libraries

• Digital Research Alliance of Canada
  Lee Wilson, Director of Research Data Management

• Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
  Karine Morin, President and CEO

  Hannah Paveck, Manager, Policy and Research (currently on leave)

• Canadian Science Publishing (CSP)
  Michael Donaldson, Open Access Specialist

• Members of the Canadian SSH journal community:

  Rosa Bruno-Jofre (Queen’s University), Director, Encounters in Theory and History of Education

  Anne-Marie Fortier (Université Laval), Director, Études littéraires 

• Co-Chairs, Journal User Group:

  Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica (ex officio)

• Co-Chairs, Library User Group:

  Pierre Lasou, Librarian - Scholarly Communications, Université Laval (ex officio)

  Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, University of British Columbia (ex officio)

• Érudit
  Tanja Niemann, Executive Director (ex officio)

• Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
  Kevin Stranack, Operations Director (ex officio)

• Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
  Jason Friedman, Senior Manager, Heritage Services (ex officio) 

International Advisory Committee
(2023-2025)

• Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Director of Research, PKP

• Joanna Ball, Managing Director, DOAJ

• Arianna Becerril García, Executive Director, Redalyc, and Chair, AmeliCA

• Ginny Hendricks, Director of Member & Community Outreach, Crossref

• Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager, EIFL

• Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives, Lyrasis

• Vincent Larivière, Scientific Director, Érudit

• Pierre Mounier, Co-Coordinator, OPERAS, and Deputy Director, OpenEdition  

• Tanja Niemann, Executive Director, Érudit (ex officio)

• Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor of English and Computer Science, University of Victoria (Chair)

• Kevin Stranack, Operations Director, PKP (ex officio)

Journal User Group
(2024-2026)

• Carla Barroso Da Costa, Editor-in-Chief, Mesure et évaluation en éducation

• Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica (Co-chair)

• Samuel Dinel, Operations coordinator, Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations

• Marc-André Éthier, Editor-in-Chief, Revue des sciences de l’éducation

• Jeanette Hatherill, Senior Coordinator for Coalition Publica

• Sharon Hu, Managing Editor, The Canadian Journal of Education (CJE)

• Sarah McCabe, Project Manager and Librarian, The Ontario Historical Society (Ontario History)

• Dagmar Soennecken, Editor-in-chief, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees

• Emma Uhl, Publication Support Specialist, PKP

• Dominik Wujastyk, Editor, History of Science in South Asia (HSSA)

Library User Group
(2024-2026)

• Leigh-Ann Butler, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Ottawa

• Robin Elizabeth Desmeules, Scholarly Communications Librarian, McGill University

• Patrick Gamsby, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Memorial University of Newfoundland

• Jeanette Hatherill, Senior Coordinator for Coalition Publica

• Richard Hayman, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Mount Royal University

• Kristin Hoffmann, Associate Librarian, Western University

• Pierre Lasou, Librarian - Scholarly Communications, Université Laval (Co-chair)

• Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, University of British Columbia (Co-chair)

• Brianne Selman, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian, University of Winnipeg

• Emma Uhl, Publication Support Specialist, PKP