2001- MIT’s OpenCourseWare boasts 2,340 courses and has encouraged over 250 other institutions to partake in Open Education.

2003- NIH implements Data Sharing Policy

2003- PLOS, nonprofit open access publisher, is launched

2013- NSF holds an Open Data Memorandum

2014- Elsevier opens it's 100th open access journal

2016- Authorea redesign makes publishing even easier