Timeline of the open-access movement

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

1940s-1990s

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  • 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."[1]
  • 1971
  • 1987
    • Syracuse University in the US issues one of the world's first open access journals, New Horizons in Adult Education (ISSN 1062-3183).[3]
  • 1991
  • 1994
    • 27 June: Stevan Harnad posts a "Subversive Proposal" for authors to archive their articles for free for everyone online.
    • July 1994. Electronic Green Journal (EGJ) was launched by the University of Idaho Library. Since 2009 it is published by the University of California eScholarship. The EGJ is a peer-reviewed publication devoted to information about international sources on environmental protection, conservation, management of natural resources, and sustainability.
  • 1998
  • 1999

2000s

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2010s

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Guy, Marieke (30 April 2015). "Open Access to Research Data: Timeline". Open Access Working Group. UK: Open Knowledge Foundation.
  2. ^ "A Brief Timeline of Open Access". UK: Symplectic. Archived from the original on Jun 25, 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  3. ^ Nancy Pontika (ed.). "Early OA journals". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons School of Library and Information Science. OCLC 757073363. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  4. ^ "OAI Meeting History". Openarchives.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  5. ^ a b Jean-Claude Guédon (2017), Open Access: Toward the Internet of the Mind – via Budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
  6. ^ "History", pkp.sfu.ca, Canada: Public Knowledge Project, retrieved 18 June 2018
  7. ^ "Timeline of the open access movement: 2003". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons College. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  8. ^ Bo-Christer Björk (2017), "Growth of hybrid open access, 2009–2016", PeerJ, 5: e3878, doi:10.7717/peerj.3878, PMC 5624290, PMID 28975059
  9. ^ "Policy: Open Science (Open Access): Chronology". European Commission. Archived from the original on 26 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Project Factsheets: OpenAIRE Project". Openaire.eu. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  11. ^ Eloy Rodrigues (2009), DRIVER and COAR: from infrastructure to confederation (PDF) – via Stellenbosch University, DSpace User Group Meeting, Sweden
  12. ^ Birgit Schmidt; Iryna Kuchma (2012). Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe: OpenAIRE Study on the Development of Open Access Repository Communities in Europe. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. ISBN 978-3-86395-095-8 – via Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN).
  13. ^ Singh Chawla, D. (10 March 2016), "Web widget nudges scientists to share their data: Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets", Nature, 532 (7597): 136, doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19542, PMID 27078571
  14. ^ Singh Chawla, Dalmeet (14 November 2017), "Need a paper? Get a plug-in", Nature.com, vol. 551, no. 7680, pp. 399–400, Bibcode:2017Natur.551..399., doi:10.1038/d41586-017-05922-9, PMID 29144489, A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable
  15. ^ "Tag 'oa.kopernio'". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573. Retrieved 14 June 2018.

Citations

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Further reading

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