National infrastructure supporting research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada.
Coalition Publica is a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project that centralizes capacity and resources to provide digital publishing services that would otherwise be inaccessible to researchers and research groups. In collaboration with libraries and the academic community, Coalition Publica advances sustainable, non-commercial open access scholarly publishing. Rooted in the Canadian research community, it also provides access to textual datasets that support research in the social sciences and humanities, as well as open datasets that advance understanding of scholarly communication.
Coalition Publica's open-source infrastructure is built on the interoperability between Open Journal Systems (OJS) software and the erudit.org dissemination platform. Based on this infrastructure, Coalition Publica offers a suite of integrated services and tools that cover the entire article production cycle, from manuscript submission and review to publication and preservation. A pillar of Coalition Publica, the Partnership for Open Access (POA), was developed by Érudit in collaboration with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).
By mobilizing the community around open infrastructure and non-commercial journals rooted in the scientific community, the initiative promotes diamond open access as the most effective way to advance the goals of the open access movement and to reclaim research as a common good.
- Open datasets: Scholarly publications are rich sources of data that reflect the intellectual, social, and historical development of research. Coalition Publica provides open datasets that enable researchers to explore how knowledge is created, shared, and shaped over time within the scholarly ecosystem.
- Text as big data: In the social sciences and humanities, where text is both subject and method of research, Coalition Publica provides large-scale textual data corpora to support computational and data driven inquiry. By transforming diverse scholarly publications into structured datasets, these services make texts more accessible for analysis and new knowledge creation. The collections support research across disciplines such as history, sociology, linguistics, economics, and literature, as well as digital research methods, including discourse analysis, natural language processing, and text mining.
- Support for early career researchers: Coalition Publica supports the next generation of early career researchers at Canadian post-secondary institutions.
- Digital publishing services: Coalition Publica partners provide a range of digital scholarly publishing services. Érudit offers XML markup and production for current issues, as well as digitization and dissemination services for journal archives and back issues. The Partnership for Open Access (POA) supports non-commercial open access publishing in Canada. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) offers hosting and publishing services for journals, monographs, and preprint servers using its open-source publishing software.
- Education and Training: Coalition Publica offers education and capacity-building services to support high-quality scholarly publishing. This includes open, online, self-paced training modules delivered through PKP School, as well as practical guides and documentation available through PKP Docs and the Érudit platform, covering software use and best practices in digital open access publishing.
- Arts and cultural industries
- Education
- Information and communication technologies and media
- Policy and governance
- Professional and technical services (including legal services, architecture, engineering)
Specialized labs and equipment
- Cloud computing infrastructure (CPU and GPU servers): Secure cloud environment, accessible at all times, hosted on the Béluga platform, physically located at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montréal and operated by Calcul Québec. This infrastructure supports continuous platform operation, storage, processing, and public access service.
- Open‑source repository and discovery platforms: Institutional and public data repositories built on Fedora Commons and dSpace, with Solr used for search and indexing, and ELK Elasticsearch for log processing, monitoring, and usage statistics.
- Commercial productivity and infrastructure support tools: Operational and service‑level tools supporting staff workflows and system reliability, including Antidote, Adobe Suite, Google Workspace, code editors, Sentry, HealthCheck, Mailgun, DigiCert, Cloudflare, and Gandi.
Private and public sector research partners
• Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN)
• Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
• Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
• ORCID Canada Consortium (ORCID-CA)
• The Digital Research Alliance of Canada
• Scholars Portal
• Réseau Circé
• Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ)
• Canadian Science Publishing
• Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
• Library and Archives Canada
• Canadiana
• Partnership for Open Access (POA)
• Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)
• Open (Quantitative) Structure-activity/property Relationship App (OPERAS)
• CRAFT-OA (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access)
• OSS-ORE (Open Source Software for Open Repositories)
• Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally (ALMASI)
• Canadian HSS Commons
• Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
• Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
• ORCID
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• Crossref
• DataCite
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)