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Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in Canada
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 .
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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
2009
2017
Coalition Publica founded to support publishing in social sciences and humanities fields.
[10]
See also
References
Further reading
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