Leslie Chan is an advocate for open access. He is a professor at University of Toronto Scarborough.
Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1959.[1] When he was 16 he moved to Canada to attend university.[1] He received a degree in anthropology.[1] While working to have his research published, he began to perceive problems with academic publishing and began exploring options to fix them.[1]
Chan supports the open access movement.[2]
Chan was a signatory to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.[1]
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In 1993 Chan founded Bioline International.[3] Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative which seeks to share open access journals published in developing countries. Chan believes that developing countries need access to journals.[4]