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."[1]
- 1971
- "World's first online digital library is launched, Project Gutenberg."[2]
- 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
- 14 August: ArXiv repository of physics research papers established at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US.
- 1994
- 27 June: Stevan Harnad posts a "Subversive Proposal" for authors to archive their articles for free for everyone online.
- 1998
- Brazil-based SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) launched.
- Public Knowledge Project founded in Canada.
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition founded in North America.
- 1999
- October: Open Archives Initiative on interoperability standards holds its first meeting, in New Mexico, US.[4]
2000s
- 2000
- BioMed Central publisher established.[5]
- 2001
- 15 January: Creative Commons founded in the United States.
- Public Library of Science publisher active.[5]
- Open Journal Systems free software published.[6]
- SPARC Europe established to promote open access in Europe.
- 2002
- 14 February: Budapest Open Access Initiative statement issued.
- 28 June: US-based OAIster catalog begins.
- 2003
- 11 April: Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing formed.
- 22 October: Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities published.
- 25 December: Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry launched (later called ROARMAP).[7]
- Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) established in Mexico.
- 2004
- UK Digital Curation Centre founded.[1]
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine launched by Bielefeld University, Germany.
- Publisher Springer begins "hybrid option 'Open Choice' for their full portfolio of over 1,000 subscription journals."[8]
- 30 January: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development issues "Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding."[1]
- 2005
- Directory of Open Access Repositories begins publication.
- 2007
- European Research Council issues "its first Scientific Council Guidelines for open access."[9]
- 2008
- Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship written.
- 7 April: United States National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy effected.
- 2009
2010s
- 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.[1]
- 2016
- 7 March: Open Data Button (browser extension) launched.[13]
- 2017
- April: UnpayWall Button (Browser extension) launched (90 million articles are indexed)
- 10 October: Jussieu Call statement issued
- Plug-in search tool Canary Haz launched to enable access to PDF versions of articles (later renamed Kopernio.com).[14][15]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Guy, Marieke (30 April 2015). "Open Access to Research Data: Timeline". Open Access Working Group. UK: Open Knowledge Foundation.
- ↑ "A Brief Timeline of Open Access". UK: Symplectic. Archived from the original on Jun 25, 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
- ↑ Nancy Pontika (ed.). "Early OA journals". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons School of Library and Information Science. OCLC 757073363. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ↑ "OAI Meeting History". Openarchives.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- 1 2 Jean-Claude Guédon (2017), Open Access: Toward the Internet of the Mind – via Budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
- ↑ "History", pkp.sfu.ca, Canada: Public Knowledge Project, retrieved 18 June 2018
- ↑ "Timeline of the open access movement: 2003". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons College. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
- ↑ Bo-Christer Björk (2017), "Growth of hybrid open access, 2009–2016", PeerJ, 5: e3878, doi:10.7717/peerj.3878, PMC 5624290, PMID 28975059
- ↑ "Policy: Open Science (Open Access): Chronology". European Commission. Archived from the original on 26 October 2015.
- ↑ "Project Factsheets: OpenAIRE Project". Openaire.eu. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ↑ Eloy Rodrigues (2009), DRIVER and COAR: from infrastructure to confederation (PDF) – via Stellenbosch University,
DSpace User Group Meeting, Sweden
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Tag 'oa.kopernio'". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
Further reading
- Mikael Laakso; et al. (2011). "Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009". PLOS One. 6 (6): e20961. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620961L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961. PMC 3113847. PMID 21695139.
- "Evolution of Open Access: A Brief History", SciElo in Perspective, Brazil: SciElo, 21 October 2013. (Timeline)
- Marie Lebert (2015), Open Access: a "chronology" (or timeline)
External links
- "Origins of OA". US: University of Pittsburgh. (Includes timeline)
- "History of", Open Access Tracking Project, Harvard University. Also: Milestones. (News feed)
- Peter Suber. "History of open access". Harvard University. Compilation of Peter Suber's contributions to the history of open access, 1992–present.
- "Timeline of the open access movement". Open Access Directory. This timeline was created and initially maintained by Peter Suber, who crowd-sourced it in February 2009 by moving it to the Open Access Directory.
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