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Coalition Publica is pleased to showcase materials that help build capacity for diamond open access publishing in Canada. These are developed and maintained by Coalition Publica, PKP, Érudit, the CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team and other community partners to support journals to adhere to best practices in digital scholarly publishing. We also highlight research that supports the development and understanding of scholarly publishing in Canada. Resources include articles, guides, tutorials, webinar recordings, reports, and templates, and are tagged according to the target audience.

How to Embed Fonts in a PDF File

This guide explains how to embed fonts in a PDF file, allowing readers to view it with the desired layout regardless of their connection location or the screen they are using (mobile, tablet, computer, etc.), even when offline.

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Preparing Quality Metadata in OJS: A Guide for Coalition Publica Journals

This guide is intended to help Coalition Publica journals to prepare their issues and articles in Public Knowledge Project (PKP)’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) software for production and dissemination on erudit.org and to improve the online discoverability of their OJS journal.

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PKP’s 25th anniversary Annual Report (2022-2023)

The year 2023 marked the 25th anniversaries of PKP and Érudit, the two partner organisations that together form Coalition Publica. As two national infrastructures, the occasion was an important milestone in the history of scholarly communication in Canada

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Creating a Canadian Library Publishing Community to Support Diamond Open Access

This poster illustrates how Coalition Publica and the LPC CCDWG are cooperating to organize the Canadian community of library publishers to support Diamond OA publishing in a national, bilingual context.

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Érudit’s 25th anniversary Annual Report (2022-2023)

The year 2023 marked the 25th anniversaries of Érudit and PKP, the two partner organisations that together form Coalition Publica. As two national infrastructures, the occasion was an important milestone in the history of scholarly communication in Canada.

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Les revues savantes canadiennes en sciences humaines et sociales. Portrait quantitatif et qualitatif

This report provides an overview of Canadian scholarly journals operating in 2019. It presents characteristics such as access modes, languages ​​of publication, the presence of different disciplines, support from funding agencies, and the organizations that support editorial teams. The report is divided into two sections. Quantitative analyses were used to present detailed information on all journals. In addition, a qualitative survey was conducted on the finances and organizational practices of a sample of journals.

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Characteristics of Canadian scholarly journals – And why these journals need our attention

Presentation at the virtual Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals / Symposium canadien des revues savantes, November 14th, 2024.

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Template for New Journal Proposal for a Library Publishing Program

Example template created by the University of Alberta Libraries for new journal proposals. This template is intended for other library publishing programs to adapt to their service.

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Template application form – Journal proposal: Title already in publication

Example template created by the University of Alberta Libraries for new journal proposals of titles already in publication. This template is intended for other library publishing programs to adapt to their service.

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Journal Policy Toolkit for Journals Using OJS

Example of a policy toolkit including policies recommended to journals participating in the University of Alberta’s Open Access Journal Publishing Program. This document is intended for library publishing programs to adapt to their service, however journals can also use the document independently of a library publishing service.

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Generic template – Canadian ISSN Application

Example template created by the University of Alberta Libraries for Canadian ISSN applications. This template is intended for library publishing programs to adapt to their service.

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Example Training Session for OJS Editorial Teams

Example training session on Open Jounal Software (OJS) for journal editorial teams. This document is intended for library publishing programs and can be adapted to their service. Journals with familiarity of OJS could use independently of a library publishing service to onboard new team members.

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