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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.[1][2] The Public Knowledge Project began in 1998 at University of British Columbia.[3][1]

Journals

As of April 2018, approximately 128 open access journals come from Canada. Examples include:[4]

  • Aestimatio : Critical Reviews in the History of Science (ISSN 1549-4470; ISSN 1549-4497)
  • Avian Conservation and Ecology (ISSN 1712-6568)
  • Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (ISSN 1913-200X)
  • Canadian Studies in Population (ISSN 0380-1489; ISSN 1927-629X)
  • East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (EWJUS)
  • Ecology and Society (ISSN 1708-3087)
  • Educational Technology & Society (ISSN 1176-3647; ISSN 1436-4522)
  • Encounters in Theory and History of Education (ISSN 1494-4936; ISSN 1925-8992)
  • Enfances, Familles, Générations [fr] (ISSN 1708-6310)
  • Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (ISSN 1715-720X)
  • Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition (ISSN 1918-5901)
  • Historical Studies in Education (ISSN 0843-5057; ISSN 1911-9674)
  • History of Science in South Asia (ISSN 2369-775X)
  • Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies (ISSN 1918-8439)
  • Journal of Community Informatics (ISSN 1712-4441)
  • Journal of Computational Geometry (ISSN 1920-180X)
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research (ISSN 1438-8871)
  • Journal of Research Practice (ISSN 1712-851X)
  • MediaTropes (ISSN 1913-6005)
  • Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture (ISSN 1920-602X)
  • Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (ISSN 1911-9593)
  • VertigO : La Revue Électronique en Sciences de l'Environnement (ISSN 1492-8442)
  • Voix Plurielles: Revue de l'Association des Professeur-e-s de Français des Universités et Collèges Canadiens (ISSN 1925-0614)
  • Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (ISSN 0710-0841)

Repositories

As of April 2018, the UK-based Registry of Open Access Repositories lists some 88 open access repositories of scholarly communication in Canada.[5] Examples include those maintained by the following:[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Canada". Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications". Science.gc.ca. Government of Canada. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  3. ^ "History". Pkp.sfu.ca. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  4. ^ "(Search: Country of Publisher: Canada)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK: Infrastructure Services for Open Access. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Browse by Country: Canada". Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Southampton. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Canada". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Institutional Repositories: Repositories in Canada". Carl-abrc.ca. Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Retrieved 6 April 2018.

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