Research 

Increasingly, funding agencies and institutions are becoming agents of change for Open Access:

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has a policy

• National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) has a new policy
  
  
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) has a new policy

• Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA) is promoting open access to their Research

• The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has an open access repository

• 26 universities in Canada have Institutional Repositories and counting!
  uO Research is the University of Ottawa's Institutional Repository

• University of Calgary has an open access fund

• The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is currently developing a policy, and already lists open access publishing related costs as an eligible expense

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) have endorsed open access in principle and continue to aid journals in the transition to Open Access

The University of Ottawa promotes and preserves scholarly work of its research community through uO Research at the uOttawa Library. uO Research is a free, secure and permanent repository offering worldwide access to the broad spectrum of the uOttawa community’s scholarship.

The uO Research repository, captures, distributes and preserves digital research products. Here you can find theses, articles, working papers, preprints, technical reports, conference papers and data sets in various digital formats. Content grows daily as new communities and collections are added to uO Research, so add the site to your favourites.

uO Research is also an Electronic Thesis (ET) tool, the aim of which is to:

• enable graduate students at uO to submit their theses electronically (final defended and corrected version);
• provide long-term storage of the final versions of these documents:
• provide web-based access to these documents to researchers inside the University and around the world.

Aporia is dedicated to scholarly debates in nursing and the health sciences. The journal is committed to a pluralistic view of science and to the blurring of boundaries between disciplines.

Aporia is the University of Ottawa's first Open Access journal.

NRC-CISTI and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are working together on plans for PMC Canada — a national digital repository of peer-reviewed health science research resulting from CIHR funding. NRC-CISTI and CIHR have approached the US National Library Medicine to co-sponsor the service, as a mirror site to PubMed Central. CIHR will provide the funding and NRC-CISTI will contribute its technological expertise to build and host the infrastructure and manage and develop the e-repository.