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.
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.
Stanford University Press
One of America’s first university presses has joined forces with one of the earliest open access publishing projects to expand the academic community’s publishing opportunities.
Formed in 2023, the collaboration between Stanford University Press and the Public Knowledge Project is designed to offer those scholars and researchers, having served as editors of their field’s key journals, the means of publishing journals owned by and aligned with the academic community’ values.
Inspired by the notable resignations of experienced, well-regarded editorial teams from the large corporate publishers, unhappy with the publishers’ business priorities, John Willinsky, PKP founder and retired Stanford University faculty member, approached SUP Director Alan Harvey with the idea of offering such teams a non-profit publishing option for launching new open access journals or for moving scholarly society journals back into the academy.
The journals will utilize PKP’s open-source publishing infrastructure, which is the most widely used in the world, and the subscribe-to-open publishing model PKP helped initiate.
Other partnerships
