Journal Support
We organize our activities into three development priorities:
Publishing services and support for Canadian SSH 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 of journals has evolved over time to include areas such as:
Open standards and best practices
Discoverability and indexing
Financial support for journals through the Partnership for Open Access
Persistent identifiers
Metadata quality
Educational training and resources
Recents Projects
DOI Pilot Project (ongoing)
A pilot project to test a potential new service for journals, with Coalition Publica providing sponsored Crossref memberships to journals and helping them configure Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) within their OJS.
Publication of Better Practices in Metadata (Fall 2021)
Developed by Coalition Publica’s Metadata Working Group, this guide provides detailed instructions about how to present and prepare metadata in OJS.2022 Journal recruitment campaign (2021)
Over the course of 2021, 22 scholarly journals successfully concluded dissemination contracts with Érudit. Out of this group, 19 of these journals currently use OJS, and 17 are in full open access.
DOAJ Pilot Project (2021)
Collaboration with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to test a potential new service, with Érudit supporting the application process for open access journals who would like to be indexed in the DOAJ, particularly French-language journals, which are poorly represented in the DOAJ.
POA - Renewal of COUPERIN (2021)
Renewal of the Partnership for Open Access (POA) agreement with France’s COUPERIN consortium of research libraries, for another 3-year period.
2021 Journal recruitment campaign (Fall 2020)
Over the course of 2020, 29 scholarly journals successfully concluded dissemination contracts with Érudit. Out of this group, 18 of these journals currently use OJS, and 28 are in full open access.