Community
Coalition Publica partners with a large and diverse community involved in the various challenges and opportunities around digital research infrastructure dedicated to scholarly communication.
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, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, 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 identified in Coalition Publica’s Strategic Plan 2020-2023, 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 ans 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
(2021-2023)
Voting Members:
Gwen Bird, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Simon Fraser University (Co-chair)
Frédéric Bouchard, Chair, Érudit Board of Directors, and Dean, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal (Co-chair)
Laëtitia Crémona, Major Initiatives Research Officer, Université de Montréal
Stephanie Gagnon, Executive Director, Direction des bibliothèques, Université de Montréal
Jason Luckerhoff, Chair, Coalition Publica Stakeholder Advisory Committee (ex officio)
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
(2022-2024)
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Amy Buckland, University Librarian, Concordia UniversityCanadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
Todd Mundle, University Librarian, Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityCanadian Science Publishing (CSP)
Michael Donaldson, Open Access SpecialistFederation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Hannah Paveck, Manager, Policy and Research, Federation for the Humanities and Social SciencesDigital Research Alliance of Canada
TBDMembers of the Canadian SSH journal community:
Jason Luckerhoff (UQTR), Director, Minorités linguistiques et société (Chair);
Rory McGreal (Athabasca University), Editor-in-Chief, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
Co-Chairs, Journal User Group:
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica (ex officio)
Sarah McCabe, Project Manager and Librarian, The Ontario Historical Society (Ontario History) (ex officio)
Co-Chairs, Library User Group:
Kristin Hoffmann, Associate Librarian, Western University (ex officio)
Pierre Lasou, Librarian - Scholarly Communications, Université Laval (ex officio)
Érudit
Tanja Niemann, Executive Director (ex officio)Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Kevin Stranack, Operations Director, PKP (ex officio)Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
Jason Friedman, Senior Manager, Heritage Services (ex officio)
International Advisory Committee
(2021-2023)
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
(2022-2024)
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica (Co-chair)
Catherine Cyr, Co-Director, Percées - Explorations en arts vivants
Samuel Dinel, Operations coordinator, Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations
Véronique Duché, Editor, Topiques, Études Satoriennes
Marc-André Éthier, Editor-in-Chief, Revue des sciences de l’éducation
Jeanette Hatherill, Senior Coordinator for Coalition Publica
Sarah McCabe, Project Manager and Librarian, The Ontario Historical Society (Ontario History) (Co-chair)
Dagmar Soennecken, Editor-in-chief, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees
Emma Uhl, Publication Support Specialist, PKP
Dominik Wujastyk, History of Science in South Asia
Library User Group
(2022-2024)
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 (Co-chair)
Pierre Lasou, Librarian - Scholarly Communications, Université Laval (Co-chair)
Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, University of British Columbia
Brianne Selman, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian, University of Winnipeg
Emma Uhl, Publication Support Specialist, PKP