Mission
To help develop and coordinate an open and sustainable national infrastructure supporting research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada.
Vision
Canadian research and scholarly publishing stakeholders working together in an innovative partnership to support the open dissemination of peer-reviewed scholarship, ensuring its widest possible reach.
Values
Openness
Collaboration
Equity and Diversity
Innovation
Objectives
We are guided by our values as we work towards our shared objectives:
Circulating Knowledge
Enabling
Research
Furthering Innovation
Developing Relationships
Sustainable Financing
History
1998
Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) were both founded in 1998 as university-based initiatives with the same ambition to create digital tools and offer services to scholarly journals.
2002
Érudit pursued this objective by developing expertise in XML tagging and, in 2002, pioneered an XML schema for scholarly journal articles, which laid the foundation for its digital dissemination platform erudit.org. Meanwhile, PKP developed its open source journal management and publishing software, Open Journal Systems (OJS).
2008
Érudit and PKP formally partnered for the first time on the CFI-funded Synergies Project, which allowed both groups to develop their respective expertise and services in scholarly communication in the context of a pan-Canadian partnership. This first partnership paved the way for ongoing collaboration between PKP and Érudit.
2014
Érudit became the first social sciences and humanities research infrastructure project to be designated a Major Science Initiative (MSI) by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
2017
Érudit invited PKP to submit a joint application to renew its CFI funding. To formalize this partnership, PKP and Érudit created Coalition Publica, a collaborative initiative to bring together and serve Canadian scholarly journal publishers, university research libraries, and researchers in the social sciences and humanities.
2020
Together as Coalition Publica, PKP and Érudit received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through the Pan-Canadian Knowledge Access Initiative (PCKAI). With this funding, Coalition Publica continues to develop its services for journals, its funding model for sustainable open access, and its research program.
2023
Funding for Coalition Publica is renewed by both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Foundation for Innovation for an unprecedented 6 year term. Both PKP and Érudit celebrate their 25th anniversaries.
Today
Through Coalition Publica, Érudit and PKP are joining forces to continue the development of their non-commercial, open source national infrastructure dedicated to digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research, based on their well-recognized platforms. This collaboration also facilitates various research activities to better understand the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem, with its unique linguistic, regional, and disciplinary diversity.
Coalition Publica is supported in part by funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.