Strategic Partnerships

The Public Knowledge Project fosters partnerships, memberships, and close relationships with universities, organizations, labs, institutions, publishers, and other agencies similarly committed to serving the field of scholarly communication. Among these partnerships, a number have been identified as strategic in terms of PKP’s mission, and foremost among them is Coalition Publica.


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Coalition Publica

Representing a long-term alliance between the Université de Montréal’s Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project on Canadian scholarly publishing initiatives, Coalition Publica is an advocacy organization that seeks to advance research dissemination and scholarly publishing in Canada. Coalition Publica works in close collaboration with Canadian publishers, academic libraries, and researchers. It is actively supporting the move of the social sciences and humanities journal community to sustainable open access built on a non-commercial, open source national infrastructure. It is a source of scholarly communication research, while generating and curating publicly available data sets for other researchers. Given its foundational role in developing platforms for Canada’s community of social science and humanities scholars, Coalition Publica is being generously funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Other partnerships

In addition to Coalition Publica, PKP maintains critical strategic relationships with leading professional scholarly communication organizations. These partners are aligned with PKP in their efforts to advance scholarly publishing in general with many sharing a commitment to greater public access to this work. 
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