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. The Public Knowledge Project began in 1998 at University of British Columbia. Notable Canadian advocates for open access include Leslie Chan, Jean-Claude Guédon, Stevan Harnad, Heather Morrison, and John Willinsky.

• Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal issued one of the world's first open access journals, Surfaces (ISSN 1188-2492) in 1991.
• 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.

There are some 88 collections of scholarship in Canada housed in digital open access repositories.

Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following:^{[according to whom?]}

• 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
• 2000
  • PKP releases first open source software package, Open Conference Systems (OCS), which it supports until 2014
• 2002
  • PKP launched Open Journals Systems (OJS) as an open source journal publishing platform
• 2003
  • 12 Canadian universities host OA journals on their IRs (Institutional Repositories)
• 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.
• 2009
  • October: York University begins open access policy.
• 2017
  • Coalition Publica founded to support publishing in social sciences and humanities fields.

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

• Devon Greyson; et al. (2010). "Open Access in Canada: A Strong Beginning". Feliciter. 56. Canadian Library Association. hdl:10760/13601. ISSN 0014-9802.
• Andrea Kwan (2011), Open Access and Scholarly Monographs in Canada, MPub Project Reports, Simon Fraser University
• John Dupuis, ed. (2013). "Resources on Open Access in Canada". Confessions of a Science Librarian.
• Taylor Price (2016). Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada (Master of Arts thesis). Lakehead University.

• "Scholarly Communication: Open Access". Carl-abrc.ca. Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
• "Tag oa.canada". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573.