2023 Coalition Publica Call for Applications
Coalition Publica is launching a call for applications for scholarly journals wishing to be disseminated on the Érudit platform (erudit.org) as of January 2023. The journal should submit its application before Sunday, April 24, 2022. Applications received after this date may be evaluated for the following year.
SELECTION CRITERIA
To be eligible, applicant journals must meet the following criteria:
- The journal must follow a rigorous and independent peer review process.
- At least one third of the journal’s editorial committee must be made up of researchers affiliated with a Canadian post-secondary educational institution and/or the journal must be owned by a Canadian not-for-profit organization.
- The journal must publish at least six scholarly articles per year.
- The journal must have been published for at least two years as a peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
- The journal must be related to a social science or humanities discipline.
- The journal must publish primarily in English and/or French.
PROCESS
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Complete the online application form at https://forms.gle/KGtkzj2ySC4Ss5768
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Érudit’s Scientific Committee will examine the applications and will approve, reject or outline conditions for the inclusion of the journal on the erudit.org platform.
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Choose a type of digital production. Érudit will provide applicant journals with a proposal with two options:
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Minimal XML (metadata tagging in XML, dissemination of articles in PDF format)
example: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1055543ar)
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Full XML (metadata and full text markup in XML, dissemination of articles in PDF and HTML; other formats also available (e.g. ePub))
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Sign contracts between the journal and Érudit. Contracts must be returned to Érudit before September 1, 2022, otherwise the journal cannot be integrated in 2023.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with Coalition Publica’s services for journals.
CONTACTS
To communicate in French:
Hocine Chehab, Digital Publishing Officer
hocine.chehab@erudit.org
514 343-6111, ext. 44607
To communicate in English:
Jessica Clark, Coalition Publica Coordinator
jessica.clark@erudit.org
613 277-0363
ABOUT COALITION PUBLICA
Coalition Publica is a partnership created by Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project dedicated to the advancement of research dissemination and digital publishing in the social sciences and humanities in Canada, specifically designed to support the SSH community in the transition towards sustainable open access. Coalition Publica will pursue this goal through the development of a non-commercial, open source national infrastructure dedicated to digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research—combining PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) software and Érudit’s digital dissemination platform (erudit.org).