Timeline of the open-access movement

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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
  • 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

• 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

• History of open access
• Open access journal: history
• List of open access projects: Policies and timelines
• Access to Knowledge movement

References

1. Open Access Working Group (30 April 2015). "Open Access to Research Data: Timeline". Access.okfn.org. UK: Open Knowledge Foundation.
2. "A Brief Timeline of Open Access". UK: Symplectic, Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd. 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. 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. "Web widget nudges scientists to share their data: Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets", Nature, 532 (7597), 10 March 2016, doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19542
14. Singh Chawla, Dalmeet (14 November 2017), "Need a paper? Get a plug-in", Nature.com, 551 (7680), pp. 399–400, Bibcode:2017Natur.551..399., doi:10.1038/d41586-017-05922-9, 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.

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.