Welcome to the Open Access Australasia website

Australasian Communities of Practice

A number of groups across Australasia support Open Research Practices:

Australian Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

An initiative of Open Access Australasia, CAUL, and Creative Commons Australia. The CoP replaces the previous Australian Open Access Community of Practice Discussion group, managed by Open Access Australasia in collaboration with the Creative Commons Australia Chapter, and the CAUL Research Support Community of Practice (CAIRSS group).

The CoP meets at 1-2pm AEST on the second Thursday of every month. Further information

Diamond Open Access Publishing Group

This special interest group was formed by members of the Australian Scholarly Communications CoP wishing to focus on the benefits and challenges of diamond open access. The group meets bimonthly online on Thursdays at 1pm AEST.

Aotearoa New Zealand Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group

Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) communities of Practice

Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS)

Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) Communities of Practice