Timeline of the open-access movement
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The following is a timeline of the international movement for open access to scholarly communication.
1940s-1990s
[edit | edit source]- 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 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).).[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.
- 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
- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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.
- July: Aaron Swartz releases the "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto", to send "a strong message against the privatization of knowledge".
- 2009
- 12 January: European Commission-funded OpenAIRE project begins, supporting implementation of open access in Europe.[10]
- Confederation of Open Access Repositories founded.[11][12]
2010s
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- 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
[edit | edit source]- Access to Knowledge movement
- History of open access
- Open access: history
- Timeline of free and open-source software
References
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Citations
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Includes timeline)
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. Also: Milestones. (News feed)
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Compilation of Peter Suber's contributions to the history of open access, 1992–present.
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 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.
Further reading
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- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (Timeline)
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Declarations in support of OA
- Timeline of the open access movement at the Open Access Directory since 2009.