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Timeline of the open-access movement

{{Short description|Overview of the international movement for open access to scholarly communication}}

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The following is a timeline of the international movement for open access to scholarly communication.

1940s-1990s

  • 1942
  • American sociologist Robert King Merton declares: "Each researcher must contribute to the 'common pot' and give up intellectual property rights to allow knowledge to move forward."{{cite web |title=Open Access to Research Data: Timeline |date= 30 April 2015 |work= Open Access Working Group |publisher=Open Knowledge Foundation |location=UK |url=https://access.okfn.org/2015/04/30/open-access-to-research-data-timeline |first1=Marieke |last1=Guy }}
  • 1971
  • "World's first online digital library is launched, Project Gutenberg."

{{cite web |url=https://symplectic.co.uk/open-access-timeline/ |title=A Brief Timeline of Open Access |publisher=Symplectic |location=UK |access-date =20 February 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190625175048/https://symplectic.co.uk/open-access-timeline/ |archive-date= Jun 25, 2019 }}

2000s

2010s

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  • 2010
  • "Beall's list" of predatory open access publishers begins circulating.
  • 2011
  • 20 January: #icanhazPDF begins on Twitter.
  • 5 September: Sci-Hub launched by Alexandra Elbakyan.
  • 16 December: United States Research Works Act bill introduced.
  • UK-based CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aggregation service founded.
  • 2012
  • Knowledge Unlatched established.
  • Pasteur4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) begins.
  • The Cost of Knowledge protest begins against high prices charged by large publisher Elsevier.
  • 22 October: Brussels Declaration signed, on open access to Belgian publicly funded research.
  • 2013
  • PeerJ megajournal begins publication.
  • Registry of Research Data Repositories begins operating.
  • 4 October: "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" published in Science.
  • 2014
  • FOSTER Project (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) begins.
  • 2016
  • 7 March: [https://openaccessbutton.org/?odb=true Open Data Button] (browser extension) launched.{{citation |title=Web widget nudges scientists to share their data: Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets |date= 10 March 2016 |journal=Nature |volume=532 |number= 7597 | doi=10.1038/nature.2016.19542|pmid= 27078571 |doi-access=free |last1= Singh Chawla |first1= D. |page= 136 }}
  • 2017
  • April: [http://unpaywall.org/ UnpayWall Button] (Browser extension) launched (90 million articles are indexed)
  • 10 October: [http://jussieucall.org/index.html Jussieu Call] statement issued
  • Plug-in search tool Canary Haz launched to enable access to PDF versions of articles (later renamed Kopernio.com).{{citation |doi=10.1038/d41586-017-05922-9|title=Need a paper? Get a plug-in |quote= A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable |work=Nature.com |volume=551 |issue=7680 |date=14 November 2017 |bibcode=2017Natur.551..399. |pages=399–400|last1=Singh Chawla |first1=Dalmeet |pmid=29144489 |doi-access=free }}{{cite web |url=https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.kopernio |title=Tag 'oa.kopernio' |work=Open Access Tracking Project |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date= 14 June 2018 }}

See also

References

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Citations

  • {{cite web |url=http://pitt.libguides.com/openaccess/oaorigins |title=Origins of OA |publisher=University of Pittsburgh |location=US }} (Includes timeline)
  • {{citation |work=Open Access Tracking Project |title=History of |url=http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.history_of |publisher=Harvard University }}. Also: [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.milestones Milestones]. (News feed)
  • {{cite web |url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/History_of_open_access |author=Peter Suber |title=History of open access |publisher=Harvard University }} Compilation of Peter Suber's contributions to the history of open access, 1992–present.
  • {{cite web |url=http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline |title = Timeline of the open access movement |publisher = Open Access Directory }} This timeline was [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm created and initially maintained] by Peter Suber, who crowd-sourced it in February 2009 by moving it to the [http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page Open Access Directory].

Further reading

  • {{cite journal |title=Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0020961 |author=Mikael Laakso |display-authors=etal |journal =PLOS One |year=2011|bibcode=2011PLoSO...620961L|pmc=3113847 |pmid=21695139 |volume=6 |issue=6 |page=e20961|doi-access=free }}
  • {{citation |url=http://blog.scielo.org/en/2013/10/21/the-evolution-of-open-access-a-brief-history/#.Wov_-maZNE4 |publisher=SciElo |work=SciElo in Perspective |title= Evolution of Open Access: A Brief History |date= 21 October 2013 |location= Brazil }}. (Timeline)
  • {{citation |url=https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/openaccesschronology/ |title=Open Access: a "chronology" (or timeline) |author= Marie Lebert |year= 2015 }}

External links

  • [http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Declarations_in_support_of_OA Declarations in support of OA]
  • [https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline Timeline of the open access movement] at the Open Access Directory since 2009.

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