Open access in Canada

• Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal issued one of the world's first open access journals, Surfaces ({{issn|1188-2492}}) in 1991.{{cite web |url= http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Early_OA_journals |title=Early OA journals |editor=Nancy Pontika |work=Open Access Directory |oclc=757073363 |publisher= Simmons School of Library and Information Science |location=US |access-date= 24 April 2018 }}
• [https://www.facetsjournal.com/ FACETS] is Canada's first and only multidisciplinary open access journal in Canada.
• [https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/anc Anthropocene Coasts], is a multidisciplinary international open access journal jointly published by Canadian Science Publishing and East China Normal University.
• [https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/as Arctic Science] is a quarterly open-access peer-reviewed journal.

There are some 88 collections of scholarship in Canada housed in digital open access repositories.{{cite web |work=Registry of Open Access Repositories |publisher=University of Southampton |location=United Kingdom |url=http://roar.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname=5F2=5FCA.html |title=Browse by Country: Canada |access-date=15 April 2018}}

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Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following:{{according to whom|date=April 2018}}

• 1994
• 27 June: Stevan Harnad posts a Subversive Proposal calling on authors to archive their articles for free online.  
• 1998
• Public Knowledge Project (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{{citation |url=https://apropos.erudit.org/en/erudit-en/history/ |title=History |work=Érudit |location=Montréal |access-date=18 June 2018 }}
• 2000
• PKP releases first open source software package, Open Conference Systems (OCS), which it supports until 2014 {{Cite web |title=PKP Timeline |url=https://pkp.sfu.ca/about/timeline/ |access-date=April 29, 2025}}
• 2002
• PKP launched Open Journals Systems (OJS) as an open source journal publishing platform {{Cite web |title=PKP Timeline |url=https://pkp.sfu.ca/about/timeline/ |access-date=April 29, 2025}}
• 2003
• 12 Canadian universities host OA journals on their IRs (Institutional Repositories){{Cite journal |last=Shearer |first=Kathleen |date=2003 |title=Institutional Repositories: Towards the Identification of Critical Success Factors |url=https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/handle/1880/43357 |journal=Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science |language=en |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=9-108 |doi=10.11575/prism/29084}}
• 2005
• SFU Dean of Libraries Lynn Copeland initiates PKP partnership with Simon Fraser University Library and the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, led by Rowly Lorimer.
• 2006
• November: Athabasca University begins policy encouraging deposits in its institutional repository.{{cite book |author=Peter Suber |author-link=Peter Suber |title=Open Access |url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_%28the_book%29 |year=2012 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=9780262517638 |page= 192 }}{{cite web |url= http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/124.html |title=Browse by country: Canada |work=ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies |publisher=University of Southampton |location=UK |access-date= 28 April 2018 }}
• 2009
• October: York University begins open access policy.
• 2017
• Coalition Publica founded to support publishing in social sciences and humanities fields.{{citation |url=https://www.coalition-publi.ca |title=Coalition Publi.ca |location=Canada |access-date=18 June 2018 }}

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

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• {{cite thesis |title=Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada |author=Taylor Price |publisher=Lakehead University |degree=Master of Arts |url=http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/806 |year=2016}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/scholarly-communication/open-access/ |title=Scholarly Communication: Open Access |publisher=Canadian Association of Research Libraries |work=Carl-abrc.ca}}
• {{cite web |url=https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.canada |title=Tag oa.canada |work=Open Access Tracking Project |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University}}

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