Open access in Canada explained

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] 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 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

Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following:

• 1998
  • French-language Érudit online publishing platform launched.
• 2006
  • November: Athabasca University begins policy encouraging deposits in its institutional repository.^{[7] [8]}
• 2009
  • October: York University 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
• Open access in other countries

Further reading

• Devon Greyson. etal. Open Access in Canada: A Strong Beginning . Feliciter . . 0014-9802 . 56 . 2010. 10760/13601.
  • Web site: Resources on Open Access in Canada . John Dupuis . Confessions of a Science Librarian . 2013.
• Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada . Taylor Price . Lakehead University . Master of Arts . 2016.

External links

• Web site: Scholarly Communication: Open Access . . Carl-abrc.ca.
• Web site: Tag oa.canada . . 1040261573 . Harvard University.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Canada . Global Open Access Portal . . 6 April 2018 .
2. Web site: Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications . Science.gc.ca . Government of Canada . 6 April 2018 .
3. Web site: History . Pkp.sfu.ca . 6 April 2018 .
4. Web site: Open Access . HLWIKI International . University of British Columbia . 3 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180605093319/http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Open_access . 5 June 2018 . dead .
5. Web site: Early OA journals . Nancy Pontika . . 757073363 . . US . 24 April 2018 .
6. Web site: Registry of Open Access Repositories . University of Southampton . United Kingdom . Browse by Country: Canada . 15 April 2018.
7. Book: Peter Suber . Peter Suber . Open Access . 2012 . . 9780262517638 . 192 .
8. Web site: Browse by country: Canada . ROARMAP

   Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies

   . . UK . 28 April 2018 .