The Érudit and PKP partnership

As a digital research infrastructure, we help drive innovation in how research is shared and accessed.

Coalition Publica is a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project, supported by universities and federal funding. Together with libraries and the academic community, we advance non-commercial, open access scholarly publishing. Rooted in the Canadian research landscape, we provide access to large datasets and play a central role in the emergence of the disciplinary field of meta-research.

To help develop and coordinate an open and sustainable national infrastructure supporting research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada.

Canadian research and scholarly publishing stakeholders working together in an innovative partnership to support the open dissemination of peer-reviewed scholarship, ensuring its widest possible reach.

Values

Openness

Openness is at the heart of Coalition Publica, from the software we develop, to how we work, to what we advocate for. We believe that by gathering community support for non-commercial, scholar-led journals, diamond open access is best placed to achieve the objectives of the open access movement and to reclaim research as a public good.

Collaboration

We cannot achieve the transition to sustainable open access without collaboration across multiple stakeholders in the scholarly communication landscape.  We work with national and international organizations, libraries, journals, societies, associations and community members to understand how working together can achieve our collective goals. Learn more about our collaborations on our  Community page.

Equity, diversity, inclusion

Coalition Publica recognizes that equity, diversity and inclusion must be at the heart of its activities and our approach reflects the diversity of perspectives and experiences of our community. We firmly believe that the full 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 will enable transformational change toward a diamond open access future. Consult the PKP and Érudit websites to see how our organizations embody these values in our activities. Read our website accessibility statement.

Innovation

Innovation drives the Coalition Publica infrastructure, its services and the research it supports. Our open source infrastructure merges editorial workflow software with a national dissemination platform to support and enhance scholarly publishing. As a pillar of the Coalition Publica service offer, the Partnership for Open Access, recognized as a social innovation by the RQIS, supports the transformation toward diamond open access in partnership with libraries worldwide. Finally, the rich journal content on erudit.org forms the foundation of a large data corpus, enhanced by contributions from libraries, archives, and other memory institutions—all fueling further research in the social sciences and humanities.

Strategic plan

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Our people

Our co-management team

Tanja Niemann

Executive Director, Érudit

Tanja holds a Master’s degree in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Leipzig. She joined the Université de Montréal in 2006, where she held various positions in digital publishing before becoming Executive Director of the Érudit Consortium in 2012. In this role, she works to promote open access and advance digital practices that foster the dissemination and democratization of knowledge. Since 2017, she has been co-leading the Coalition Publica project.

Teresa Lee

Managing Director, Public Knowledge Project

Teresa is a librarian and publisher with experience in Canadian academic libraries, the US government sector, and UN publishing. She is a graduate of UBC’s iSchool. She brings a well-rounded perspective that is informed by experience and ongoing professional interest in health librarianship, e-resources, licensing, copyright, intergovernmental publishing, bibliometrics, and scholarly communications. She is committed to equity in the making and sharing of knowledge.

Urooj Nizami

Outreach Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project

Urooj works to build and maintain relationships with PKP’s diverse international community and partners. She is a trained librarian with a master’s degree from McGill University’s School of Information Studies and holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Temple University.

Élise Bergeron

Associate Director, Érudit

Élise is Associate Director and leads Érudit's strategy and partnerships team. She acquired extensive expertise in scholarly communications as Director of Operations for several years at Érudit. A graduate of UQAM and HEC Montréal, she has also worked as an editor.

Coordinator

Jeanette Hatherill

Senior Coordinator, Coalition Publica

Jeanette coordinates the activities of Coalition Publica. She has an MLIS from the University of Montréal and prior to joining Coalition Publica in 2023, she managed open access initiatives at the University of Ottawa including the library’s journal publishing services, the institutional repository, and its open access investments.

Coalition Publica team

The highly-qualified teams at Érudit and PKP advance Coalition Publica’s projects.

Our story

1998

Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) were both founded in 1998 as university-based initiatives with the same ambition to create digital tools and offer services to scholarly journals.

2002

Érudit pursued this objective by developing expertise in XML tagging and, in 2002, pioneered an XML schema for scholarly journal articles, which laid the foundation for its digital dissemination platform erudit.org. Meanwhile, PKP developed its open source journal management and publishing software, Open Journal Systems (OJS).

2008

Érudit and PKP formally partnered for the first time on the CFI-funded Synergies Project, which allowed both groups to develop their respective expertise and services in scholarly communication in the context of a pan-Canadian partnership. This first partnership paved the way for ongoing collaboration between PKP and Érudit.

2014

Érudit became the first social sciences and humanities research infrastructure project to be designated a Major Science Initiative (MSI) by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The Partnership for Open Access is established between Érudit and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.

2017

Érudit invited PKP to submit a joint application to renew its CFI funding. To formalize this partnership, PKP and Érudit created Coalition Publica, a collaborative initiative to bring together and serve Canadian scholarly journal publishers, university research libraries, and researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

2020

Together as Coalition Publica, PKP and Érudit received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through the Pan-Canadian Knowledge Access Initiative (PCKAI). With this funding, Coalition Publica continues to develop its services for journals, its funding model for sustainable open access, and its research program.

2023

Funding for Coalition Publica is renewed by both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Foundation for Innovation for an unprecedented 6 year term. Both PKP and Érudit celebrate their 25th anniversaries.

Today

Through Coalition Publica, Érudit and PKP are joining forces to continue the development of their non-commercial, open source national infrastructure dedicated to digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research, based on their well-recognized platforms. This collaboration also facilitates various research activities to better understand the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem, with its unique linguistic, regional, and disciplinary diversity.

Our technical infrastructure

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a widely used, decentralized, open-source editorial management software for scholarly journals, while the erudit.org platform provides centralized access to a vast collection of digital publications in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Together, these two platforms form the innovative Coalition Publica infrastructure that supports Canadian research dissemination.

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Our commitments

In line with our values, Coalition Publica supports the following initiatives promoting bibliodiversity, multilingualism, open science, the fair evaluation of research, and principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the research ecosystem.