Alliances - PKP WP [LOCAL]

The Public Knowledge Project maintains alliances, memberships, and close relationships with organizations, labs, institutions, publishers, and other agencies similarly committed to serving the field of scholarly communication.

These alliances involve collaborating on research projects; developing software solutions; providing language translations; assisting with software documentation, learning materials, and technical support; offering joint workshops, seminars, or conference presentations; participating in UI/UX software testing, and contributing to advocacy initiatives, all concerned with advancing scholarly publishing.

In addition to working closely with its Development Partners and Sustainers, there are four organizations with which PKP is closely aligned and in which it is actively involved.

Core Alliances

Coalition Publica

This coalition between PKP and Érudit is dedicated to advancing research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. Together, we are supporting the social sciences and humanities journal community in the transition towards sustainable open access.

ScholCommLab

The ScholCommLab is an interdisciplinary team of researchers based in Vancouver and Ottawa, interested in investigating scholarly communication, with its Co–Director Juan Pablo Alperin also serving as PKP’s Co-Scientific Director.

Libraria

Libraria operates as a collective of scholars in anthropology and related areas supported by a small number of libraries, commissioned a study of the ways in which independent open access social science journals might begin to work together.

S2O

S2O is a pragmatic approach for converting subscription journals to open access—free and immediate online availability of research—without reliance on either article processing charges (APCs) or altruism.

Additional Alliances

PKP is also aligned with, as well as an active collaborator in the following scholarly communication organizations.