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Our collaborations

National collaborations

We collaborate with the members of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) to deliver the infrastructure, services, and financial support needed to sustain and grow Canadian diamond open access journals, ensuring scholarly knowledge remains open and community-owned.


We also work with organizations like ORCID-CA, The Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Scholars Portal, and Réseau Circé to strengthen Canada’s open digital research infrastructure and support a thriving culture of knowledge sharing. Through collaborations with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canadian Association of Learned Journals and Canadian Science Publishing, we connect journals and researchers across disciplines and regions, advancing open access and research sovereignty.


Our work with memory institutions, including BAnQ, Library and Archives Canada, and Canadiana, ensures access to rich textual data for research and teaching.

Library collaborations

We partner with over 30 Canadian libraries who provide OJS hosting and publishing services for nearly 150 journals on Érudit. Library professionals contribute to Coalition Publica’s governance, working groups, and educational initiatives, helping build national capacity for diamond open access, a model that is free for both authors and readers.

Financial support for participating journals is made possible through the Partnership for Open Access (POA), a global initiative backed by over 90 libraries worldwide. These contributions help sustain a non-commercial, open access publishing ecosystem in Canada.

International collaborations

Coalition Publica is a Canadian national project that operates in a global context of open infrastructures and standards for scholarly publishing. Our work with libraries and those dedicated to open infrastructure extends internationally as both Érudit and PKP are proud Strategic Affiliates of the Library Publishing Coalition and members of OASPA.

Our teams are involved in international partnerships and collaborations such as OPERAS, CRAFT-OA, OSS-ORE, ALMASI, COMMONS, and we work with organizations such as COAR, NISO, SciELO, ORCID, IFLA, Crossref, DataCite and DOAJ to advance common priorities such as multilingualism, bibliodiversity, JATS XML, metadata quality and interoperability, persistent identifiers, and discoverability.

Our partnerships

We partner with the following organisations to advance our common goals.

Our governance

Coalition Publica’s work is overseen by its governance committees. 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 (2025-2027)
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Steering Committee

Frédéric Bouchard, Chair, Érudit Board of Directors, and Dean, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal (Co-chair)

Amy Buckland, Chair, Coalition Publica Stakeholder Advisory Committee (ex officio)

Stephanie Gagnon, Executive Director, Direction des bibliothèques, Université de Montréal

Francis Gingras, Vice-recteur adjoint pour le secteur Société et culture, Université de Montréal

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

Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Director of Research, PKP

Vincent Larivière, Scientific Director, Érudit

Terms of reference
Stakeholder Advisory Committee (2024-2026)
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Stakeholder Advisory Committee

Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Amy Buckland, University Librarian, Concordia University (Chair)

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)

Joanne Smyth, Director, Collections Strategy and Scholarly Communication, University of New Brunswick Libraries

Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Lee Wilson, Director of Research Data Management

Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Karine Morin, President and CEO

Hannah Paveck, Manager, Policy and Research (currently on leave)

Canadian Science Publishing (CSP)
Michael Donaldson, Open Access Specialist

Members of the Canadian SSH journal community:

Rosa Bruno-Jofre (Queen’s University), Director, Encounters in Theory and History of Education

Anne-Marie Fortier (Université Laval), Director, Études littéraires

Co-Chairs, Journal User Group:

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica (ex officio)

Dominik Wujastyk, Editor, History of Science in South Asia (ex officio)

Co-Chairs, Library User Group:

Pierre Lasou, Librarian – Scholarly Communications, Université Laval (ex officio)

Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, University of British Columbia (ex officio)

Érudit
Tanja Niemann, Executive Director (ex officio)

Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Kevin Stranack, Operations Director (ex officio)

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
Amanda Holmes, Senior Licensing Officer (ex officio)

Terms of reference
International Advisory Committee (2025-2027)
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International Advisory Committee

Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Director of Research, PKP

Joanna Ball, Managing Director, DOAJ

Arianna Becerril García, Executive Director, Redalyc, and Chair, AmeliCA

Kornelia Korzec, Director of Community, 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)

Terms of reference
Journal User Group (2024-2026)
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Journal User Group

Carla Barroso Da Costa, Editor-in-Chief, Mesure et évaluation en éducation

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica (Co-chair)

Marie-Eve Dugas, Digital Publishing Officer, Érudit

Mathieu Dupuis, Operations coordinator, Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations

Marc-André Éthier, Editor-in-Chief, Revue des sciences de l’éducation

Jeanette Hatherill, Senior Coordinator for Coalition Publica

Sharon Hu, Managing Editor, The Canadian Journal of Education (CJE)

Sarah McCabe, Project Manager and Librarian, The Ontario Historical Society (Ontario History)

Dagmar Soennecken, Editor-in-chief, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees

Emma Uhl, Publication Support Specialist, PKP

Dominik Wujastyk, Editor, History of Science in South Asia (HSSA) (Co-chair)

Terms of reference
Library User Group (2024-2026)
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Library User Group

Leigh-Ann Butler, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Ottawa

Robin Elizabeth Desmeules, Scholarly Communications Librarian, McGill University

Marie-Eve Dugas, Digital Publishing Officer, Érudit

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

Pierre Lasou, Librarian – Scholarly Communications, Université Laval (Co-chair)

Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, University of British Columbia (Co-chair)

Brianne Selman, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian, University of Winnipeg

Emma Uhl, Publication Support Specialist, PKP

Terms of reference

Past members

Coalition Publica is grateful for the engagement of all those who have participated in our governance groups.
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