The University of OttawaLibrary announced that it’s increasing its support for the Partnership for Open Access (POA), by making an important additional contribution to the POA’s Open Access Acceleration Fund. The Open Access Acceleration Fund increases the financial support provided to the diamond open access journals on the erudit.org platform.
Established in 2014 by Érudit, in collaboration with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, the Partnership for Open Access (POA) provides funding for non-commercial scholarly journals and enables open access publishing in Canada. The POA is based on diamond open access, a model that does not charge fees to either readers or authors.
To learn more, we invite you to read the news article on the University of Ottawa’s website, in which Talia Chung, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Ottawa, and Tanja Niemann, Érudit’s Executive Director, explain the importance of this contribution:
“The University of Ottawa recognizes the great value of Érudit’s work and is delighted to support its efforts to promote and disseminate scholarly knowledge in Canada, particularly in French. Through this additional contribution to the POA, the Library is proud to support University of Ottawa researchers who chose open access, particularly those who wish to publish in French. It’s important that members of our research community have access to publishing opportunities without processing charges, as well as a more equitable research ecosystem.” — Talia Chung, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, University of Ottawa
“We would like to express our sincerest thanks to the University of Ottawa Library for its generosity and active involvement in supporting diamond open access scholarly journals, which are disseminated without fees to read or to publish. This contribution to the Partnership for Open Access directly supports over 290 journals with roots in Canadian research communities, including at the University of Ottawa. Independent and diverse, these journals reflect the linguistic diversity and the vitality of research conducted in Canada and beyond.” — Tanja Niemann, Érudit’s Executive Director