Timeline 2000

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * This is a section within the larger Timeline of the open access movement.


 * 2000. The Cross-Archive Searching Service (ARC) is launched.


 * January 2000. Henry Hagedorn resigned (to take effect in July 2000) as editor of the Archives of Insect Biochemistry &amp; Physiology in order to launch the Journal of Insect Science. See Journal declarations of independence.


 * February 2000. PubMed Central (free full-text articles) launched to supplement PubMed (free citations and abstracts). See these details on the history of PubMed Central.


 * May 10, 2000. Tempe Principles For Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing issued.


 * May 16, 2000. Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) launched by the CalTech Library System. (Named "Caltech CODA" in September 2002.)


 * July 11, 2000. A United Nations Economic and Social Council ministerial declaration called for "universal access to knowledge and information" (Section 15).


 * July 19, 2000. BioMed Central published its first free online article.


 * September 29, 2000. Southampton University released Eprints, its OAI-compliant software for eprint archiving.