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September 2024: What’s in this issueWhat’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New ZealandWhat’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globallyRecent writing & resources on OAUpcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing |
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What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand |
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Chief Scientist holds webinar to discuss the advice to government on open access models Thursday September 12th 2024. The Chief Scientist held a webinar to discuss the recently released advice to government on open access – Advice on open access models. Unlocking knowledge for national benefit. The document can be downloaded from the Australia’s Chief Scientist websit Both Open Access Australasia and CAUL presented their views at the webinar, citing the lack of bibliodiversity, and the continued entrenchment of the problematic publisher agreement model as among the reasons not to support the proposal as it stands. |
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CAUL releases new Board position statement on open access On the day of the Chief Scientist’s webinar CAUL released the Board’s new position statement on open access explicitly endorsing bibliodiversity, the importance of repositories and diamond open access models, the urgent need to transform current scholarly publishing, and the application of the CARE principles to Indigenous research outputs, recognising that “the rights of Indigenous people related to their knowledges may take precedence over the imperative to make research outputs open access.” |
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Open Access Australasia’s OA Week 2024 events are now open for registration! Open Access Australasia announces three events for OA Week 2024, featuring both regional and international expert panelists addressing accessibility, OERs, diamond journal publishing and technology – yes including AI! – and community. For more information and to register visit the OAA website |
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What is your institution doing for OA Week 2024? We want to know what OA week event you are planning! Send your event details to contact@oaaustralasia.org and we will include it on our website. |
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Institutional Repositories: gone by lunchtime? Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha – University of Canterbury is holding a two-day symposium exploring the evolving roles of institutional repositories and open access in today’s academic and scientific communities. Day one will focus on the challenges and future of institutional repositories, while day two will delve into the mainstream adoption of open access. Keynotes from Local Contexts and OpenAlex |
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Kummargii Yulendji Symposium 2024 Symposium co-convened by Informit and CAVAL on how we describe, apply, and amplify First Nations Knowledges and publications. The 2024 Kummargii Yulendji Symposium was held on Thursday 12 September at RMIT in Naarm/Melbourne, as part of Social Sciences Week. |
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AuSCCoP The Australian Scholarly Communications Community of Practice (AuSCCoP) next meets on October 10th at 1pm AEST/4pm NZDT. Please add your agenda items. If you would like to join the AuSCCoP and/or attend the next meeting please email contact@oaaustralasia.org AuSCCoP Diamond Open Access Publishing group. The Diamond group met on August 15th and featured lightning talks comparing open journal publishing platforms. Their next meeting will be October 17th at 1pm AEST/4pm NZDT. More information about the Diamond Publishing group and how to join AuSCCoP Repositories group The last meeting was held on September 19th and featured discussions on platforms Eprints, Figshare and DSpace. For more information or to sign up to the group please see the group’s webpage |
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What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally |
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SPARC Open Access 101 recordings available SPARC has been holding a three part series on open access designed to introduce those interested to the basics, then to build in some examples of practical approaches to OA, concluding with thoughts about OA’s future. These sessions have been held at a fairly unsociable hour for our timezone but the recordings for all three parts are now available. |
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New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models A new online tool designed to assess the equity of scholarly communication models is launched today at the OASPA 2024 conference. The “How Equitable Is It” tool, developed by a multi-stakeholder Working Group, comprising librarians, library consortia representatives, funders and publishers, and convened by cOAlition S, Jisc and PLOS, aims to provide a framework for evaluating scholarly communication models and arrangements on the axis of equity. |
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Antitrust lawsuit filed against large academic publishers On September 12, a San Francisco-based law firm filed an antitrust lawsuit on behalf of UCLA professor Lucina Uddin against six prominent academic publishers and the trade association that represents them: Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (“STM”) The lawsuit alleges that the publishers have illegally agreed amongst themselves not to pay for peer review, to only allow a manuscript to be submitted to one journal at a time, and to disallow any discussion of the manuscript prior to publication. |
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Launch of new diamond journal based in the US: The Journal of Open Initiatives in Academic Libraries Journal of Open Initiatives in Academic Libraries is calling for submissions for its inaugural volume. The new journal aims to explore and promote the advancement of open research and scholarship initiatives involving academic libraries or other academic and research support units. |
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SPARC Europe: Setting the Default to Open. Rights Retention Project Retain II launches A follow-up to SPARC Europe’s Project Retain. Enabling the dissemination of Knowledge has recently been approved. The Retain II project focuses on studying institutional policies in a far wider range of countries in Europe than in the previous project, aiming to promote rights retention. |
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OPERAS Annual report 2023 OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. The OPERAS Annual Report provides a detailed record of the work of the organisation in 2023, including news from the OPERAS Assemblies, Special Interest Groups and projects. |
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What we are reading: Keeping up with AI |
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Is that LLM Actually “Open Source”? We Need to Talk About Open-Washing in AI Governance “Understand the historical context of Open Source licensing, the current challenges in defining “openness” in AI, and the phenomenon of “open-washing”, which is misleading consumers and developers alike.” |
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What we are watchingPCI webinar series – Brian Nosek – Reimagining scholarly publishing to promote credible research “The purpose of scholarly publishing is to facilitate the communication and interrogation of evidence and claims to advance knowledge production. The business of scholarly publishing interferes with this purpose.” Brian Nosek critiques the current scholarly publishing ecosystems and introduces an alternative approach. |
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What we are listening toKnowledge Equity Lab: Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Podcast Recorded in 2021 and 2022, this initiative of the Knowledge Equity Lab and SPARC, examines the politics of global knowledge production and circulation and the power dynamics that shape it – as well as highlighting alternative models and approaches from Other Knowledge systems. |
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Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing |
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