Open Educational Resources (OER)

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2010 release of Access to Research Results: Guiding Principles by the three federal granting agencies--the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

An introduction to open access (OA) written by Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project.

These reports highlight the faster than previously thought growth of open access to scientific literature, showing that around 50% of papers published in 2011 are now available online for free.

480 open datasets.
Nova Scotia Government's Open Data Portal. Making government data easier to access for individuals, businesses, and researchers

A newly created not-for-profit educational organization that aims to support Canadian education by providing free open source textbooks.

Science and medicine journals with peer-reviewed open access content using a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for all the works they publish.