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This list is part of the
Open Access Directory
Timeline of the open access movement
This is a list of landmark events in the history of OA. It started as a non-wiki
timeline
perma.cc link
) maintained by Peter Suber, who moved it to OAD in February 2009.
Please keep entries brief in order to save space. Whenever possible, link to the projects, policies, or organizations mentioned.
Whenever possible, please give year, month, and day for each item. When you know the year, but not the month or day, then list the item at the beginning of the year. When you know the year and month, but not the day, then list the item at the beginning of the month.
For reference, the timeline includes a small number of entries on the early history of the internet and world wide web, to show how quickly scholars moved to take advantage of the new medium. The dates for these entries are in a
green font
The timeline does not aim to include all OA journals or all OA repositories, only the early pioneers that helped to prove the concepts. It also omits individual books, articles, and speeches, no matter how important.
Related lists in OAD: (1)
Declarations in support of OA
, (2)
Early OA journals
, (3)
Unanimous faculty votes
Related lists elsewhere. These were started after the OAD list and are less comprehensive for the early years.
The timeline in Wikipedia
, started in February 2018.
Ironically, the
OAD
co-founders originally tried to put the OAD lists into Wikipedia, where they were routinely deleted. After several waves of this, they founded the OAD as a safe alternative.
The timeline at the Open Access Network
The timeline at Symplectic
Wikidata identifier for this page:
Q56229198
Timeline before 2000
Timeline 2000
Timeline 2001
Timeline 2002
Timeline 2003
Timeline 2004
Timeline 2005
Timeline 2006
Timeline 2007
Timeline 2008
Timeline 2009
Timeline 2010
Timeline 2011
Timeline 2012
Timeline 2013
Timeline 2014
Timeline 2015
Timeline 2016
Timeline 2017
Timeline 2018
Timeline 2019
Timeline 2020
For a visual timeline see
A brief timeline of Open Access
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