« In 2022 Open Access Australasia investigated 187 research active institutions across four sectors in the ANZ region to see what OA initiatives were being practised at the institutional level. We looked at universities and compared them with research institutions in the health, government and non-profit sectors to see if approaches…
« Open Access Australasia welcomes the public release of the Chief Scientist’s Advice to government on open access models for Australia. In particular, we welcome the Addendum to the Advice referencing rights retention strategies, diamond open access initiatives and investing in repository infrastructure. As the…
« The current system for assessing research careers for hiring, promotion and funding is not fit for purpose.
Assessment practices tend to focus on how many publications a researcher has, the number of citations and journal status, as well as success in grant funding rounds.
While there are good…
« Open Access Australasia reports on open access initiatives currently practised by research active institutions in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in 2022. Data has been collected for universities, health, government and non-profit research institutions across the region. Open access policies, guidelines and statements, repositories and open publishing ventures were collected…
« If the ARC’s research metrics are abolished they will be replaced by commercially-motivated providers of league tables and research metrics – when other nations are working on new ways of assessment. (…)
Australian universities have pursued higher rankings because their influence on international student recruitment drives short term financial…
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« QUT’s revised Open Access policy protects your right to make your research publications open access. (…)
QUT researchers are now required to make their refereed research articles available via QUT ePrints, immediately upon publication, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence. Ideally,…
« An outline of why the Australian Research Data Commons is pursuing the development of a national persistent identifier strategy and roadmap.
Delivered to the National PID strategy and roadmap workshop held in Canberra, Australia on Monday 20 February 2023. (…) »
« This project explores the role of Australian institutional repositories in sharing academic research.
22 library leaders and repository managers from 17 Australian universities were interviewed. In this webinar, we share the findings including:
• The challenges university libraries face for their institutional repositories
• The strategic directions for and…
« Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are unique alpha-numeric codes that positively identify entities such as people, places, and things. In addition, they are connected to registries of information about those entities, known as metadata, that enable robust linking to and between those entities. This establishes provenance and attribution, as specified by the…
« (…) Under NHMRC’s revised Open Access Policy, all peer-reviewed publications arising from NHMRC-funded research must be made available immediately upon publication, removing the 12-month embargo period. They must also be published with the use of an open licence, which means publications can be used and shared widely.
These requirements…
