Timeline of the open-access movement
The following is a timeline of the internationalmovementforopen accesstoscholarly communication.
1940s-1990s[edit]
- 1942
- American sociologistRobert King Mertondeclares: "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 Universityin the US issues one of the world's firstopen access journals,New Horizons in Adult Education(ISSN1062-3183).[3]
- 1991
- 14 August:ArXivrepository of physics research papers established atLos Alamos National Laboratoryin the US.
- 1994
- 27 June:Stevan Harnadposts a "Subversive Proposal"for authors to archive their articles for free for everyone online.
- July 1994. Electronic Green Journal was launched by the University of Idaho Library and today is published by the University of California eScholarship. As an early free online peer-reviewed journal.
- 1998
- Brazil-basedSciELO(Scientific Electronic Library Online) launched.
- Public Knowledge Projectfounded in Canada.
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalitionfounded in North America.
- 1999
- October:Open Archives Initiativeoninteroperabilitystandards holds its first meeting, in New Mexico, US.[4]
2000s[edit]
- 2000
- BioMed Centralpublisher established.[5]
- 2001
- 15 January:Creative Commonsfounded in the United States.
- Public Library of Sciencepublisher active.[5]
- Open Journal Systemsfree software published.[6]
- SPARC Europeestablished to promote open access in Europe.
- 2002
- 14 February:Budapest Open Access Initiativestatement issued.
- 28 June: US-basedOAIstercatalog begins.
- 2003
- 11 April:Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishingformed.
- 22 October:Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanitiespublished.
- 25 December:Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registrylaunched (later called ROARMAP).[7]
- Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal)established in Mexico.
- 2004
- UKDigital Curation Centrefounded.[1]
- Bielefeld Academic Search Enginelaunched byBielefeld University,Germany.
- PublisherSpringerbegins "hybridoption 'Open Choice' for their full portfolio of over 1,000 subscription journals. "[8]
- 30 January:Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmentissues "Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding."[1]
- 2005
- Directory of Open Access Repositoriesbegins publication.
- 2007
- European Research Councilissues "its first Scientific Council Guidelines for open access."[9]
- 2008
- Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipwritten.
- 7 April: United StatesNational Institutes of Health Public Access Policyeffected.
- July: Aaron Swartz releases the "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto",to send" a strong message against the privatization of knowledge ".
- 2009
- 12 January: European Commission-fundedOpenAIREproject begins, supporting implementation of open access in Europe.[10]
- Confederation of Open Access Repositoriesfounded.[11][12]
2010s[edit]
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- 2010
- "Beall's list"ofpredatory open access publishersbegins circulating.
- 2011
- 20 January:#icanhazPDFbegins on Twitter.
- 5 September:Sci-Hublaunched byAlexandra Elbakyan.
- 16 December: United StatesResearch Works Actbill introduced.
- UK-basedCORE(COnnecting REpositories) aggregation service founded.
- 2012
- Knowledge Unlatchedestablished.
- Pasteur4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) begins.
- The Cost of Knowledgeprotest begins against high prices charged by large publisherElsevier.
- 22 October: Brussels Declaration signed, onopen access to Belgian publicly funded research.
- 2013
- PeerJmegajournal begins publication.
- Registry of Research Data Repositoriesbegins operating.
- 4 October: "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"published inScience.
- 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 Callstatement issued
- Plug-in search tool Canary Haz launched to enable access to PDF versions of articles (later renamedKopernio.com).[14][15]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abcdGuy, 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.Archivedfrom the original on Jun 25, 2019.Retrieved20 February2018.
- ^Nancy Pontika (ed.)."Early OA journals".Open Access Directory.US:Simmons School of Library and Information Science.OCLC757073363.Retrieved24 April2018.
- ^"OAI Meeting History".Openarchives.org.Retrieved12 June2018.
- ^abJean-Claude Guédon(2017),Open Access: Toward the Internet of the Mind– via Budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
- ^"History",pkp.sfu.ca,Canada:Public Knowledge Project,retrieved18 June2018
- ^"Timeline of the open access movement: 2003".Open Access Directory.US: Simmons College.Retrieved20 February2018.
- ^Bo-Christer Björk (2017), "Growth of hybrid open access, 2009–2016",PeerJ,5:e3878,doi:10.7717/peerj.3878,PMC5624290,PMID28975059
- ^"Policy: Open Science (Open Access): Chronology".European Commission. Archived fromthe originalon 26 October 2015.
- ^"Project Factsheets: OpenAIRE Project".Openaire.eu.Retrieved4 March2018.
- ^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.ISBN978-3-86395-095-8– viaOpen 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,PMID27078571
- ^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,PMID29144489,
A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable
- ^"Tag 'oa.kopernio'".Open Access Tracking Project.Harvard University.OCLC1040261573.Retrieved14 June2018.
Citations[edit]
- "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 ofPeter Suber'scontributions to the history of open access, 1992–present.
- "Timeline of the open access movement".Open Access Directory.This timeline wascreated and initially maintainedbyPeter Suber,who crowd-sourced it in February 2009 by moving it to theOpen Access Directory.
Further reading[edit]
- 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.PMC3113847.PMID21695139.
- "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)