Technical Developments
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
Through Coalition Publica, PKP and Érudit harmonize key development activities to advance an open and sustainable national infrastructure that supports research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada.
Our technical developments have evolved over time to include areas such as:
Journal digital publishing and production (OJS-Érudit interoperability, persistent identifiers, decolonization)
Journal dissemination and discoverability (licences, protocols/standards, metadata, UI/UX, accessibility, search)
Metrics, statistics and reporting (usage data, dashboards/reports, COUNTER R5)
International collaborations (infrastructure, standards)
Cybersecurity
Recents Projects
Publication of Metadata Feedback for Coalition Publica technical report (fall 2021)
Developed by Coalition Publica’s Metadata Working Group, this report provides valuable insight on emerging trends in scholarly publication metadata that Coalition Publica may need to integrate in the coming years.OJS-Érudit interoperability: OJS 3 reference metadata (winter 2021)
Developments were completed to enable journals to add article bibliographies as unstructured reference metadata to OJS and to allow Érudit to harvest these automatically for dissemination on erudit.org. Implementation by individual journals supported with targeted communications and detailed instructions.
Full XML Fast Track (ongoing)
Development of new production workflow for Coalition Publica to permit the faster and more cost-effective production of journal articles in Full XML for dissemination on erudit.org. Developments will allow journals to attach source/layout files in OJS and will allow Érudit to harvest these automatically, for the preparation of metadata, references and full-text XML markup.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 DOIs within their OJS. Technical developments will support decentralized updating of DOI metadata and URLs.