By becoming partners, research libraries support fair open access dissemination for all, in a concrete way. They directly contribute to the rise of digital humanities by helping to increase research perspectives in HSS and in arts and letters. 

Partner libraries gain access to the articles of journals that are currently in transition toward open access (12-month moving wall) as well as to the plain text of the Érudit corpus, for text and data mining purposes.

partnership principles

1- A funding model tailored to the economic reality of research libraries

2 - 100% of the Partnership revenues redistributed to journals

3- A representative, cooperative, open, and transparent model. 

Library consortia can elect a representative to attend the annual virtual assembly where new journals and project milestones will be presented.

open access in hss and in arts and letters

Open access dissemination allows access to scientific publications without a paywall. It ensures the circulation of knowledge within research communities as well as throughout society. A dissemination practice known to be essential in order to safeguard a dynamic and innovative scholarly publishing ecosystem, open access is supported by a growing amount of institutions and states worldwide. 

However, although it is now proven that open access significantly increases scholarly articles' influence and outreach, the same cannot yet be said for journals' financial viability, namely in HSS and in arts and letters. While the STM sector (science, technology, and medecine) has widely embraced the article processing charge model (APC), the funding structure for research in HSS and arts and letters does not allow journals to charge publication fees to authors.

The partnership model aims to offset the loss of library subscription revenues through direct and continuous funding of the journals' publishing activities as they transition to open access.  

further reading

• Shaping a Collective Future : An Investigation into Canadian Scholarly Journals' Socio-Economic Reality and an Outlook on the Partnership Model for Open Access. Paquin, É. et al. (2017).
  → http://www.erudit.org/public/documents/Canadian_Journals_Socio-Economic_Study.pdf
  

• A library-publisher partnership for open access: building an innovative relationship between scholarly publishers and academic libraries. Ward, M., & Lavoie, J. (2016), LIBER Quarterly, 25(4), 189–204.
  → https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10139
  

• De l’importance des revues de recherche nationales. Larivière, Vincent (2014), Septembre 2014, Magazine Découvrir, ACFAS.
  → http://www.acfas.ca/publications/decouvrir/2014/09/l-importance-revues-recherche-nationales
  

• Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing (CUSP). A white paper prepared on behalf of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) by Martha Whitehead and Brian Owen
  → http://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Can_Univ_Sustainable_Publishing_2016.pdf
  

• Open access publishing cooperative study. An initiative driven by the Public Knowledge Project in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and several other major stakeholders of the scholarly dissemination field. It explores the feasibility of implementing publishing cooperatives that would bring together libraries, journals, scholarly societies, and university presses around an open access scientific publishing model.
  → https://pkp.sfu.ca/2018/01/02/open-access-publishing-cooperative-study-final-report/