Partner with an Experienced Team

Founded in 1998, both Érudit and PKP have over 25 years of experience helping journals publish and disseminate research. As non-commercial university-led initiatives, Érudit and PKP provide personalized client support that responds to the unique needs of Canada’s research communities.

A Game-changing National Initiative

By joining Coalition Publica, journals make a strong statement in support of the international movement redefining the power dynamic in scholarly publishing, towards the free and open circulation of knowledge. With support from our cost-effective professional publishing services and financial contributions from the Partnership for Open Access, all Coalition Publica journals are published in immediate open access or with a 12-month embargo.

Strength in Numbers

Coalition Publica journals benefit from being part of an important research dissemination consortium with the capacity to reach new research communities around the world. Negotiations with library consortia in Canada and abroad continue to extend the Partnership for Open Access, with a goal to increase both readership and financial support for Coalition Publica journals.

Professional Publishing Options

Coalition Publica works with journals to determine their unique needs and provide services that meet industry standards for scholarly publications.

• Complete submission, peer review, and editorial workflow management with OJS

• Journal website creation tools within OJS (announcements, custom pages, masthead, publication of journal policies, etc.)

• High-quality metadata and digital document production

• Long-term preservation with Portico, Scholars Portal, and PKP|PN (LOCKSS)

• Detailed usage statistics and reports

• Support for best practices for citability and persistent linking (DOI and ORCID)

• Mobile-friendly interfaces based on latest usability standards

• Assistance meeting Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) criteria

• Training and professional development opportunities for journal staff

Financial Support and Funding Opportunities

By providing cost-effective, professional digital publishing services, Coalition Publica helps make open access achievable for Canadian scholarly journals. Our digital publishing tools help streamline processes to maximize financial and human resources. Coalition Publica is also developing sustainable financial models for open access journals in collaboration with libraries and funding agencies. 

The Partnership for Open Access—established by Érudit and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and now expanding internationally—provides financial support to Canadian publishers in transition toward complete open access. Through this partnership, Coalition Publica journals receive financial support for their editorial activities.

Through its Aid to Scholarly Journals program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) provides supplementary funding for journals hosted on Canadian, not-for-profit digital content and distribution platforms (value of up to $5000 per annum). Coalition Publica journals, due to their inclusion on Érudit, are eligible for this supplementary funding.

Wider Dissemination, Greater Visibility, and Higher Impact

Coalition Publica journals will benefit from being part of a central aggregation platform (erudit.org) with high international visibility and a robust indexing strategy that improves discoverability. The content that is disseminated on Érudit also joins other heritage documents to become the basis of a textual data corpus available to Canadian researchers for non-commercial research purposes.

• 5 million users (75% international)

• Maximum visibility and discoverability in Google Scholar, Wikipedia and OpenAlex

• Agreements with discovery tools (e.g. ExLibris, OCLC)

Contact us to learn more about how your journal could benefit from joining Coalition Publica!