Journal Support
We organize our activities into three development priorities:
Publishing services and support for Canadian scholarly journals
Shared technological development for publishing software and platforms
Research activities investigating the scholarly publishing ecosystem
Priorities
Coalition Publica supports Canadian scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences in a variety of ways; through the digital publishing infrastructure we develop, through the services we offer, and through our connections with the various stakeholders involved in scholarly communication.
Our work to support journals includes areas such as:
Open standards and best practices
Financial support for journals through the Partnership for Open Access
Persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCID
Flipping subscription journals to Open Access
Metadata quality
Discoverability and indexing
Educational training and resources
Related Initiatives
Better Practices in Metadata
Ensuring accurate identification of a journal’s content to improve its discoverability, access, preservation, and, arguably, research impact is an ongoing process that we undertake in collaboration with journals and libraries. To that end, Coalition Publica and its working groups have created two essential guides: Preparing Quality Metadata in OJS and Better Practices In Journal Metadata (also available in PKP Docs Hub) to help journals improve their metadata quality.
Annual journal recruitment campaign
Every year, the Coalition Publica team works to recruit journals to be disseminated on the erudit.org platform and to benefit from Coalition Publica’s services. Since the inception of Coalition Publica in 2017, over 130 scholarly journals have joined Érudit, over 120 of which are fully open access, and nearly 100 of which are using OJS.
Collaboration with the DOAJ
Working with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), library partners, and Mir@bel, Érudit maintains the French translation of the DOAJ criteria and application guide. The Coalition Publica team works with library publishing and hosting services to support the application process for open access journals that would like to be indexed in the DOAJ.
Partnership for Open Access
The Partnership for Open Access (POA) enables open access publishing in Canada. It provides financial support to non-commercial scholarly journals through the ongoing commitment of library partners and is based on a close collaboration between all stakeholders of the research ecosystem. Part of the diamond open access movement, the POA is building a collective, equitable, and robust path for the dissemination of knowledge.
Education and Outreach
PKP and Érudit work with partners to develop and deliver educational and training materials relevant to journal editors, that range from practical application to keeping abreast of the changing landscape of scholarly communication and open access publishing. Some examples include webinars on Informed Use of Multilingualism in PKP Software and Implementing ORCID, as well as panel discussions on Partnerships for Open Access, Advancing Research Visibility through National Portals, and Inclusion in the DOAJ.