SSHRC renews its support of Coalition Publica for the Development of Open Access
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This ongoing investment will build on Coalition Publica's success in advancing the discoverability and impact of social sciences and humanities research in Canada and abroad.
Coalition Publica is pleased to announce the renewal of SSHRC funding to contribute to its ongoing operations for the next six years (2023-2029). With this support, Coalition Publica will continue to develop its services for journals, including interoperability and compliance with international standards, and contribute to research on the scholarly publishing landscape.
Created by the Érudit Consortium and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Coalition Publica is a pan-Canadian partnership that brings together key players in scholarly publishing and research in Canada and abroad, in support of an equitable, open and sustainable ecosystem for scholarly communication.
Coalition Publica currently supports 225 Canadian scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences through services offered in both official languages. These services, sought by a growing number of journals, succeed due to the complementarity between the platform erudit.org, which serves more than 5 million unique users per year, and the PKP community's Open Journal Systems (OJS) software, used by more than 30,000 scholarly journals worldwide.
SSHRC renewed Coalition Publica’s support through the Pan-Canadian Knowledge Access Initiative (PCKAI), following an evaluation conducted by a committee composed of experts in the social sciences and humanities research and library communities. With funding of $1.5M per year for six years, SSHRC's support complements Coalition Publica’s infrastructure funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation's Major Science Initiatives fund.
More information on the PCKAI program is available on SSHRC’s website.
Contact-Persons :
Gwendal Henry - Communication Advisor, Érudit - gwendal.henry@erudit.org
Alejandra Casas Niño de Rivera - Communications Coordinator, PKP - alejandra@publicknowledgeproject.org
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 free and open software for journals, books, and preprints, 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 350 Canadian journals and over 30,000 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 300 journals and its collections are consulted by the research community and the general public, including the members of over 1,200 institutions worldwide. https://www.erudit.org/