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"As part of our work for the PASTEUR4OA Project Open Knowledge will be writing a briefing paper on Open Access to research data, to form one in a series of advocacy papers. Sharing the raw data behind published outputs is a key complementary activity to Open Access and the paper will give an overview of the benefits, challenges, policy developments and European Commission directions in this area.  We will be including a simple visual European timeline showing key dates and initiatives in the move towards Open Access to research data. Unfortunately one-page of A4 won’t do the timeline justice so I wanted to share my findings with you and ask if there are any significant events that have been missed! This timeline builds on Peter Suber’s excellent Open Access timeline and the EC Open Science (Open Access) chronology, and adds in complimentary dates ..."