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] Notable Canadian advocates for open access include Leslie Chan, Jean-Claude Guédon, Stevan Harnad, Heather Morrison, and John Willinsky.
[4] There are some 88 collections of scholarship in Canada housed in digital open access repositories.
[6] Key events in the development of open access in Canada include the following:[according to whom?]