About
CO.SHS – the open cyberinfrastructure
for the humanities and social sciences – is dedicated to supporting research in
the humanities and social sciences and the arts and letters in three different
ways.
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Production
Strengthening the production capacity of digital scholarly publications.
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Discovery
Increasing the discoverability of research results disseminated on the Érudit platform.
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Exploration
Facilitating the exploration of vast textual corpora with analysis and visualization tools.
Financed by the Canada Foundation for Innovation as part of the Cyberinfrastructure initiative (read the funding announcement), the project is overseen by Vincent Larivière, associate professor of information science at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, holder of the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication and scientific director of Érudit. It is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of researchers and a strong network of partners.
The leading digital dissemination platform of HSS research in Canada, Érudit is an interuniversity consortium comprised of Université de Montréal, Université Laval and Université du Québec à Montréal and is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture.