Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

the Institutes of Health Research effected a

policy Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an or ...

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

in 2008, which in 2015 expanded to include the

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; , CRSNG) is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering research in Canada. NSERC directly funds university professors and students as ...

and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The

Public Knowledge Project The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a non-profit research initiative that is focused on the importance of making the results of publicly funded research freely available through open access policies, and on developing strategies for making thi ...

began in 1998 at

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

. Notable Canadian advocates for open access include Leslie Chan, Jean-Claude Guédon,

Stevan Harnad Stevan Robert Harnad (Hernád István Róbert, Hesslein István, born 1945) is a Canadian cognitive scientist based in Montreal. Early life and education Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University an ...

, Heather Morrison, and John Willinsky.

Journals

* Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal issued one of the world's first

open access journals Pulsus Group is a health informatics and digital marketing company and publisher of scientific, technical, and medical literature. It was formed in 1984, primarily to publish peer-reviewed medical journals. Pulsus published 98 hybrid and fu ...

, ''Surfaces'' () in 1991.
''FACETS''
is Canada's first and only multidisciplinary open access journal in Canada. *
Anthropocene Coasts
', is a multidisciplinary international open access journal jointly published by Canadian Science Publishing and East China Normal University. *
Arctic Science
' is a quarterly open-access peer-reviewed journal.

Repositories

There are some 88 collections of scholarship in Canada housed in digital

open access repositories An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such reposito ...

Timeline

Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following: * 1994 ** 27 June: Stevan Harnad posts a Subversive Proposal calling on authors to archive their articles for free online. * 1998 **

(PKP) established by John Willinsky * 1998 ** French-language Érudit online publishing platform launched, as a university-based initiative with the ambition to create digital tools and offer services to scholarly journals * 2000 ** PKP releases first open source software package, Open Conference Systems (OCS), which it supports until 2014 * 2002 ** PKP launched Open Journals Systems (OJS) as an open source journal publishing platform * 2003 ** 12 Canadian universities host OA journals on their IRs (Institutional Repositories) * 2005 ** SFU Dean of Libraries Lynn Copeland initiates PKP partnership with

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...

Library and the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, led by Rowly Lorimer. * 2006 ** November:

Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first Canadian ...

begins

encouraging deposits in its institutional repository. * 2009 ** October:

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

begins open access policy. * 2017 ** Coalition Publica founded to support publishing in social sciences and humanities fields.

References

External links

* * Academia in Canada Communications in Canada

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Journals

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Timeline

See also

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