In
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
the
Institutes of Health Research effected a
policy
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of
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
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; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, CRSNG) is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering rese ...
and
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH) is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and traini ...
.
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 th ...
began in 1998 at
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...
.
Notable Canadian advocates for open access include
Leslie Chan,
Jean-Claude Guédon,
Stevan Harnad, Heather Morrison, and
John Willinsky.
Journals
* Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal issued one of the world's first
open access journals, ''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 repositori ...
.
Timeline
Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following:
* 1998
** French-language
Érudit
Érudit () is a Quebec non-profit publishing platform. Founded in 1998, it publishes research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as select physical and natural science journals. The organization is a consortium of Université de Montré ...
online publishing platform launched.
* 2006
** November:
Athabasca University begins
policy
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encouraging deposits in its institutional repository.
* 2009
** October:
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
begins open access policy.
* 2017
** Coalition Publica founded to support publishing in social sciences and humanities fields.
See also
*
Open data in Canada
*
Open educational resources in Canada
*
Science and technology in Canada
Science and technology in Canada consists of three distinct but closely related phenomena:
* the diffusion of technology in Canada
* scientific research in Canada
* innovation, invention and industrial research in Canada
In 2019, Canada spent ...
* Open access in
other countries
Other often refers to:
* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
References
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