In Canada the Institutes of Health Research effected a policy of open access in 2008, which in 2015 expanded to include the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.^[1][2] The Public Knowledge Project began in 1998 at University of British Columbia.^[3][1] Notable Canadian advocates for open access include Leslie Chan, Jean-Claude Guédon, Stevan Harnad, Heather Morrison, and John Willinsky.^[4]

Journals

• Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal issued one of the world's first open access journals, Surfaces (ISSN 1188-2492) in 1991.^[5]
• 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.^[6]

Timeline

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Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following:^{[according to whom?]}

• 1998
  • French-language Érudit online publishing platform launched.^[7]
• 2006
  • November: Athabasca University begins policy encouraging deposits in its institutional repository.^[8][9]
• 2009
  • October: York University begins open access policy.^[8][9]
• 2017
  • Coalition Publica founded to support publishing in social sciences and humanities fields.^[10]

See also

• Open data in Canada
• Open educational resources in Canada
• Science and technology in Canada
• Open access in other countries

References

Further reading

• Devon Greyson; et al. (2010). "Open Access in Canada: A Strong Beginning". Feliciter. 56. Canadian Library Association. hdl:10760/13601. ISSN 0014-9802.
• Andrea Kwan (2011), Open Access and Scholarly Monographs in Canada, MPub Project Reports, Simon Fraser University
• John Dupuis, ed. (2013). "Resources on Open Access in Canada". Confessions of a Science Librarian.
• Taylor Price (2016). Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada (Master of Arts thesis). Lakehead University.

External links

• "Scholarly Communication: Open Access". Carl-abrc.ca. Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
• "Tag oa.canada". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573.

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