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March 2025: What’s in this issue What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally Recent writing & resources on OA Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing
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Welcome to our new Executive Committee members! A warm welcome to our three new Executive Committee members, who were appointed at the AGM on March 27th 2025. Jess Howie, Assistant Director, Open Research and Teaching & Learning at University of Waikato Library. Yanti Ropeyarn, Senior Specialist, Indigenous Initiatives (ATSIDA) UTS Library. Anne Lennox, Associate Director, Library Services (Teaching and Research), RMIT University Library.
We very much look forward to working with you and to connecting with our members again very soon to continue the work started at the AGM & Planning meeting. Thanks to all those who attended. |
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What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand |
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 University of Waikato’s Open Research Position Statement Principles released
In 2023 the University of Waikato Research Committee approved Aotearoa’s first Open Research Position Statement. “This document describes the six principles that accompany the statement. The purpose of the principles is to breathe life into the statement, and provide a framework which researchers can use to guide their decision-making across the research lifecycle.” Read the Principles |
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Upcoming webinar: April 30th: Nathalie Fargier presents HAL and Episciences OAA is thrilled to be hosting Nathalie Fargier, Director, Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) who will be presenting on HAL, the multidisciplinary open archive of French research and Episciences, a complete platform for the publication of open access diamond journals. April 30th 3pm AEST/5pm NZST More info & Register |
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Registration open for CAUL Exhibition Events 2025 now open The CAUL Office welcomes library staff to attend a CAUL Exhibition Event at one of the following locations and days: Brisbane: Monday June 16, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane Melbourne: Wednesday June 18, The Events Centre, Collins Square, Melbourne CBD Adelaide: Friday June 20, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide CBD
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eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa – The Case for Open Source in the Science System of Aotearoa Open Source Software (OSS) “plays a critical role in the global technology ecosystem. It fosters collaboration, transparency, and innovation, providing a foundation for modern computing and research.” This paper presents the results of a birds-of-a-feather workshop held at the 2025 eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa conference in February |
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Some changes to where to find and how to join the CoPs
Information on the CoPs can now be accessed from the OAA homepage under ‘communities’. We are also happy to be able to provide information about the Aotearoa CoPs here as well. To join just sign up under the group of your choice. Old invites to meetings have now been cancelled. Existing members have already received the link to sign up for 2025 meetings and new members will receive that information in the welcome email when they sign up. 
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AuSCCoP Next meeting for the Australian Scholarly Communications Community of Practice (AuSCCoP) will be Thursday April 11th. More information and how to join AuSCCoP Diamond Open Access Publishing group. The next meeting for the Diamond group will be on Thursday April 17th. More information about the Diamond Publishing group and how to join AuSCCoP Repositories group There is currently a convener position vacant for this group. Please contact the conveners if you are interested. More information about the Repository group and how to join. Next meeting is scheduled for May 15th. 
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What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally |
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Plan of action to strengthen and future-proof research repositories in Europe. The plan, a joint initiative of LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR, addresses the role of repositories for impact, inclusiveness, trust and innovation. “ …the vision of open science depends on a robust network of well-functioning repositories that not only collect, preserve, and provide access to millions of valuable research outputs but also serve as critical institutional assets. In an era where AI is reshaping research and knowledge discovery, repositories play a key strategic role as curated collections of an institution’s intellectual production, ensuring visibility, integrity, and trustworthiness of research outputs.” |
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PKP launches updated OJS, OMP and OPS PKP announces the release of Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS) version 3.5.0rc2 (Release Candidate 2) and welcomes community testing! To participate and try out the new version or for more information please visit the community forum |
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cOAlition S provides feedback on the Canadian Tri-Agency Open Access policy cOAlition S has responded to the consultation on the draft, revised Open Access policy on publications announced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). |
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DOAJ announces its move to the DOAJ Foundation “We are excited to announce that DOAJ is moving to become a new legal entity, the DOAJ Foundation, a Danish nonprofit foundation. We will gradually transfer DOAJ’s operations over the coming months from our current host, Infrastructure Services for Open Access, to the new foundation. The move will secure DOAJ’s sustainability by providing more robust community governance and simplifying our organisation, meaning we can focus on our core mission.” |
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Reports COAR 2025 Activity Plan “Our vision is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for open science and scholarship, which is connected with other value added
services, thereby transforming the system, making it more inclusive, research-centric, and innovative, and collectively managed and governed by the scholarly community.” |
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Moving from the article to a full “knowledge stack” PLOS announces a new project to go beyond the traditional research article to address two systemic barriers to open science: a lack of recognition for all research outputs, and the economic costs that prevent broader participation. |
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Open access: Māori perspectives on publishing by Spencer Lilley “This short paper presents the results of a project that looked at Māori researchers’ attitudes to open access publishing. It presents an overview of their engagement with green and gold publishing options, including barriers and challenges they encountered when considering open access publishing and the role that Māori liaison librarians have in encouraging Māori academics to utilize the range of open access resource opportunities available..” |
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What we are reading: Keeping up with AI |
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem by Alex Reisner This article explores how Meta and OpenAI used the pirated Library Genesis (LibGen) dataset, containing millions of books and research papers, to train their AI models, raising ethical and legal concerns. It highlights the scale of this issue, the companies’ reliance on “fair use” defenses, and the broader implications for copyright, intellectual property |
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AI bots are destroying Open Access This blog post highlights how AI bots are overwhelming open-access repositories by aggressively scraping content, which disrupts their functionality and accessibility for legitimate users. |
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AI & Scholarly Publishing: Did you know? |
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The Toluca-Cape Town Declaration on Diamond OA: Sharing Knowledge as a Public Good This SPARC webcast explores how the Toluca-Cape Town Declaration can help to shape Diamond Open Access initiatives in North America. Arianna Becerril García and Reggie Raju, chairs of the first two Diamond OA Summits, led the discussion. |
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Open Science policies and the role of libraries – initiatives from China and Indonesia Initiatives promoting international collaboration, research data sharing, and open access publishing in China and Indonesia are presented y Professor Dr Jinxia Huang, Open Science Research Center, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Madiareni Sulaiman, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN Indonesia) and PhD Student University College London, Indonesia/United Kingdom. The webinar was hosted by Fiona Bradley, Chair of IFLA Open Science and Scholarship Advisory Committee, Director Research & Infrastructure UNSW Sydney Library, Australia |
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OE Global Voices: the podcast“OEGlobal Voices is our podcast that brings to you the voices and ideas of open educators from around the world” |
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Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing |
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