Created in the spring of 2017, Coalition Publi.ca aims to establish an infrastructure dedicated to the digital production and dissemination of research results in the Canadian humanities and social sciences (HSS). The project is now guided by an advisory committee with representatives from various stakeholders within academia.
Créée au printemps 2017, Coalition Publi.ca a pour mission d’établir une infrastructure dédiée à la production et à la diffusion numérique des résultats de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) au Canada. Le projet est désormais encadré par un comité consultatif composé de représentants des différents acteurs du milieu universitaire.
We welcome the opportunity to submit a response to the Investing in Canada’s Future report. We were glad of the government and advisory panel’s outreach in the year leading up to the report, and the opportunities to respond through organizations such as the Federation and Social Sciences and Humanities and others in the months that followed the report’s publication.
In December 2017, Clare Appavoo, Executive Director of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) agreed to talk with Sarah Milligan about the Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE), a project envisioned “as a means to advance integration within the academic library community in Canada by understanding the complexity of the digital landscape and by seeking opportunities facilitate alignment of key stakeholders and providers” (“Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) Project”, n.p.).
The Érudit and Public Knowledge Project team members want to affirm their formal and enthusiastic support for the Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity. The two organizations, which have been developing open and interoperable research infrastructures for some time, joined together in 2017 (CO-SHS project) to create a sustainable open access funding model based on partnerships with Canadian research libraries.