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We have curated a diverse set of open resources.

You are welcome to use any of the resources on this site, but ask that you credit Open Access Australasia or the original creator as the source.

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23 Nov 2021

Connecting the dots: 20+ years of open in Australia

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12 Oct 2021

OpenAIRE

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14 Jul 2021

What is Open Access?

What does Open Access mean?

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25 May 2021

What are article processing charges?

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25 May 2021

What are Transformative Agreements?

Publishing contracts are changing

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25 May 2021
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What are the different types of open access?

The different colours associated with Open Access have specific meanings

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25 May 2021

Open Licences

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21 May 2021

F.A.I.R. access to Australia's Research

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18 May 2021

Open Access Journal Publishing

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18 May 2021

How can I transform my journal to open access?

There are a lot of resources available.

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15 May 2021
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A renewed impetus for open research in Australia

Ginny Barbour and Fiona Bradley write in International Association of Universities magazine, Horizons

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11 May 2021

What are the benefits of open access?

Open access increases visibility and use of research

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20 Apr 2021
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Open Access Week 2021

October 25-31

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20 Apr 2021

Is there a citation advantage for open access research?

Yes, an overall citation advantage is seen for open access content.

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20 Apr 2021

Open Access: Should one model ever fit all?

Ginny Barbour and Scott Nicholls write in in Australian Quarterly on open access and disruption in scholarly publishing

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08 Apr 2021

Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) Open Access work

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08 Apr 2021

CAUL Advancing Open Scholarship (FAIR)

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08 Apr 2021
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Regional Communities of Practice

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07 Apr 2021
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Why is openly accessible science so important?

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07 Apr 2021

Wikipedia: Open access in Australia

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06 Apr 2021

Trove

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31 Mar 2021

SPARC EU

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30 Mar 2021
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Invest In Open

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30 Mar 2021

SCOAP3

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

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30 Mar 2021

DOAJ

The Directory of Open Access Journals

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30 Mar 2021

SPARC

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

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30 Mar 2021

OASPA

The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association

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30 Mar 2021

Atlas of Living Australia

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30 Mar 2021
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia

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30 Mar 2021

What are Creative Commons Licenses?

Creative Commons License are an important component of open access

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28 Mar 2021

Open Access in New Zealand universities: an environmental scan

Report to CONZUL, 12 August 2019

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28 Mar 2021

Wikipedia: Open Access in New Zealand

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28 Mar 2021

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

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28 Mar 2021
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Plan S & cOAlition S

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28 Mar 2021

Science publishing has opened up during the coronavirus pandemic. It won’t be easy to keep it that way

A new article by Ginny Barbour published on The Conversation.

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28 Mar 2021

Benefits of Open Access

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23 Mar 2021

What are all the different journal article versions?

What’s an “AAM”?

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19 Mar 2021

How do I know an OA journal is not a predatory journal?

Can I trust journal blacklists?

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19 Mar 2021

How do I find an OA journal?

My funder requires that I publish in an OA journal.

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08 Mar 2021

‘How Open Access Suddenly Became the Norm’

Professor Ginny Barbour presentation at the IP & education in the age of COVID-19 research symposium.

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Event Date: 29 Jul 2020

Set of graphics created by Mark Hooper for Open Access Week 2017

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23 Oct 2017

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