A Partnership in Support of Open Access to Scholarly Journals in HSS and Arts and Letters
The Partnership for Open Access is an innovative model for collaboration between university libraries and scholarly journals designed to provide ongoing financial support to humanities and social sciences publishers, in an equitable and sustainable open access environment.
taking concrete action
Reinforcing the support provided by university libraries to Canadian scholarly publishing
Accelerating the development of research practices in HSS
Supporting open access dissemination
this partnership is driven by
Coalition Publica is a strategic partnership created by Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). It stems from an intensive and collaborative reflection process within the Canadian research community, aiming to develop a national infrastructure for the open access dissemination of publications in HSS and arts and letters.
Coalition Publica is a Canadian initiative that falls within an international movement redefining the power dynamic in the field of scholarly publishing, in support of a free circulation of knowledge.
it was initiated by
Érudit ensures the digital dissemination of scientific and cultural publications in the humanities and social sciences.
Érudit is an interuniversity consortium (Université de Montréal, Université Laval and Université du Québec à Montréal). It is recognized as a major science initiative by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is a partnership of 76 Canadian universities.
Through the coordinated leadership of librarians, researchers, administrators and other stakeholders in the research community, CRKN undertakes large-scale content acquisition and licensing initiatives in order to build a knowledge infrastructure to support research and teaching in Canadian universities.