Open Access Australia Discussions - Open Access Week2024-03-28T21:27:46Zhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/group/openaccessaustralia/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noOAWk in Australia list of eventstag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2013-10-15:5385115:Topic:1011922013-10-15T22:02:50.387ZDr Danny Kingsleyhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/DrDannyKingsley
<p>HI all,</p>
<div>The Australian Open Access Support Group has compiled this page - <a href="http://aoasg.org.au/oawk-events-2013" rel="nofollow">http://aoasg.org.au/oawk-events-2013</a>/ listing OAWk events. There will be events in every state and territory across the country and more than half the universities around the nation are celebrating the week in some manner (with more events to be added shortly).</div>
<div>Events range from competitions to win iPads or money to cover APCs,…</div>
<p>HI all,</p>
<div>The Australian Open Access Support Group has compiled this page - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://aoasg.org.au/oawk-events-2013">http://aoasg.org.au/oawk-events-2013</a>/ listing OAWk events. There will be events in every state and territory across the country and more than half the universities around the nation are celebrating the week in some manner (with more events to be added shortly).</div>
<div>Events range from competitions to win iPads or money to cover APCs, through to demonstrations, conferences, seminars and workshops.</div>
<p>Kerry, you will find on this page that there are HEAPS of things happening in Queensland.</p>
<p>If you guys are interested in OA issues then you might want to join the Australian Open Access Community Discussion List - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/australian_oa_community" target="_blank">http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/australian_oa_community</a></p>
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<p>Danny</p> OA week at UNSWtag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2013-10-10:5385115:Topic:1007142013-10-10T22:00:33.274ZSigi Jottkandthttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/SigiJottkandt400
<p>Come and join Tom Apperley, me and Clare McKenzie for our OA Week panel in Rm 327, Webster Building, UNSW, 22/10 at 12.30-2pm. We're also holding a workshop where we'll train people in using OJS and PKP's new Open Monograph Press. All very welcome, esp students and postgrads!</p>
<p>Come and join Tom Apperley, me and Clare McKenzie for our OA Week panel in Rm 327, Webster Building, UNSW, 22/10 at 12.30-2pm. We're also holding a workshop where we'll train people in using OJS and PKP's new Open Monograph Press. All very welcome, esp students and postgrads!</p> Come to meetup/drinkup open research Sydneytag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2012-07-13:5385115:Topic:665372012-07-13T01:59:04.153ZAlex Holcombehttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/AlexHolcombe
<p><span>Please come to our informal meetup/drinkup open research Sydney, first week September, RSVP here: </span><a target="_blank" class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://t.co/U1SKywxe"><span>http://</span><span class="js-display-url">openresearchsyd.eventbrite.com.au</span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span> </span></span></a><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="https://twitter.com/search/%23openscience"><s><br/></s></a></p>
<p><span>Please come to our informal meetup/drinkup open research Sydney, first week September, RSVP here: </span><a target="_blank" class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://t.co/U1SKywxe"><span>http://</span><span class="js-display-url">openresearchsyd.eventbrite.com.au</span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span> </span></span></a><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="https://twitter.com/search/%23openscience"><s><br/></s></a></p> Open Access: How Open? How Accessible Symposium, Deakin University, Victoria, Australiatag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2010-10-20:5385115:Topic:95102010-10-20T02:56:50.510ZSue Owenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/SueOwen
It's great to see that we're celebrating Open Access Week in Australia with several events this year. Thanks for starting the group, NMIT!!<br></br><br></br>The Open Access: How Open? How Accessible Symposium is taking place tomorrow - Thursday 21st October at Deakin University in the Richard Searby Room, Building hd, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood. <br></br><br></br>This media release, says it all!<br></br><br></br>If anyone would like to attend, please contact me directly at the details below.…<br></br>
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It's great to see that we're celebrating Open Access Week in Australia with several events this year. Thanks for starting the group, NMIT!!<br/><br/>The Open Access: How Open? How Accessible Symposium is taking place tomorrow - Thursday 21st October at Deakin University in the Richard Searby Room, Building hd, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood. <br/><br/>This media release, says it all!<br/><br/>If anyone would like to attend, please contact me directly at the details below.<br/>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Deakin symposium to explore vexed issue of Open Access- How Open? How Accessible?</span></b> <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";"><br/></span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">A Deakin University forum provides an opportunity to explore the hotly debated issues surrounding access to research. <br/></span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">The forum will tackle the challenging question - how do we make research freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone via Open Access. </span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3">Deakin University’s Librarian Ms Anne Horn said Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright licensing<br/></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“It is compatible with peer review and many Open Access initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance,” she said.</span><br/></font>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“What makes Open Access possible is the technology of the internet and the consent of the author or copyright holder.</span><br/></font>
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<font size="3">“The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether<br />
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";"> </span>The forum to be held to celebrate Open Access week on Thursday, 21 October 2010 will feature keynote speaker Professorial Fellow, Victoria University,<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Professor John Houghton who has examined the economic implications of the Open Access and other scholarly publishing models.</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“Studies in Australia, the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and the US suggest that not only are Open Access publishing models lower cost than the subscription or toll access model, but they also have wider cost implications through access and<br/>
authentication system and library handling cost savings,” he said.</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“They have even wider economic and social benefits, as open access to the findings of research enables us to realise higher returns on public investment in research by making it more widely and freely available and maximising its impact."</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Ms Horn said the forum would give researchers, academics, publishers and librarians the opportunity to learn more about Open Access and to debate Open Access issues in Australia. </span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“It is pertinent for Deakin’s Library to host this forum on Open Access,” she said.</span></font></p>
<font size="3"><br/></font><p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">"A library’s core business is to make information accessible, and Open Access is an inclusive approach that ensures research publications are available to the global community for the advancement of knowledge.”</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“Library staff add their expertise in assuring access and preservation. </span></font></p>
<font size="3"><br/></font><p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“Furthermore, our research repository, Deakin Research Online, opens a new avenue for Deakin researchers to showcase their research and to engender collaborative projects with researchers around the world.”</span></font></p>
<font size="3"><br/></font><p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Ms Horn said the debate between advocates of Open Access and subscription/publishers has been lively, with each side pushing its case via a number of studies, reports and initiatives.</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“Academics occupy the uneasy middle ground, unsure of what open access may mean for peer review and highly concerned about breaching copyright agreements,” she said.</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“Globally, many research funders and institutions have mandated Open Access.</span></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">“There is growing support among academics and research funding bodies for the provision of facilities which apply the Open Access ethos to a wide range of scholarly outputs not just journal publications.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><br/></font><p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">If you are interested in attending the ‘Open Access: How Open? How Accessible?’ forum, please contact Ms Sue Owen, Deakin University Library on 9251 7180 or email</span> <a href="mailto:uni-librarian@deakin.edu.au"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">uni-librarian@deakin.edu.au</span></a></font></p>
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<p class="Recommendationnumber" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Other speakers at the forum will be Mr John Lamp, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University and Mr James Mercer, Springer publishers.</span></font></p>
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<br/> OA Week activitiestag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2010-10-15:5385115:Topic:83292010-10-15T00:53:04.329ZSigi Jottkandthttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/SigiJottkandt
I thought it would be good to hear about what other institutions are doing in Australia for OA Weeek. David, Elizabeth and Tinka are hosting an info session at NMIT Library's Greensborough Campus on Wednesday 20th. Paul Ashton and I will attend with our students from the Bachelor of Writing and Publishing to talk about some of the OA initiatives we're involved with (Open Humanities Press and re.press).<br></br>At one point we talked about coordinating with other academic libraries in Melbourne. It…
I thought it would be good to hear about what other institutions are doing in Australia for OA Weeek. David, Elizabeth and Tinka are hosting an info session at NMIT Library's Greensborough Campus on Wednesday 20th. Paul Ashton and I will attend with our students from the Bachelor of Writing and Publishing to talk about some of the OA initiatives we're involved with (Open Humanities Press and re.press).<br/>At one point we talked about coordinating with other academic libraries in Melbourne. It would be great if people posted here about their activities.<br/>