« 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…
« 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
« 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,…
« 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…
« 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…
![Open Access Publish with power: rights protected by QUT’s revised open access policy [Queensland University of Technology]](https://i0.wp.com/lalist.inist.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cnrs_20120001_1405_MD.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1)
« 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…
« 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…
« 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…
« 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…
« (…) 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…
