Canada’s new open access policy is a win for science, with a bill for taxpayers

The revised Tri-Agency policy requires immediate access to publicly funded research. It also leaves commercial publishers free to profit from public money.

Checking rights, managing metadata, and ensuring compliance is skilled work, and resources vary enormously between institutions, write Richard Hayman, Stefanie Haustein, Brianne Selman, and Bryn Williams-Jones. Pexels photograph by Tima Miroshnichenko

Opinion

BY RICHARD HAYMAN, STEFANIE HAUSTEIN, BRIANNE SELMAN, BRYN WILLIAMS-JONES

October 21, 2026

After years of consultation and delay, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) finally released their revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy earlier this...

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