Factsheet on Open Licences
New resources for Open Access week, October 24-28 2016

AOASG has partnered with OA experts working around Australia and New Zealand to produce a series of fact sheets on specific topics. The series was launched in Open Access week 2016 and the topics are listed below. Comments and suggestions for future topics are welcome.
Factsheet on Article Processing Charges

Graphic on OA journal Publishing

AOASG resources
- Open Access Scholarly Publishing – an overview of open access publishing Open Access_Briefing_Paper
- Downloadable graphics explaining open access
Overview & mythbusting of open access
- The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a wiki of all manner of lists about open access maintained by the open access community
- Suber, P. (2009). A field guide to misunderstandings about open access.
- Common Myths and Misperceptions about Open Access from Griffith University

- Making Science Public 2012 Open access – what’s out there? has many useful links
- The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Policy Department Briefing: Open Access – an overview of the key drivers behind the development and growth of open access as at July 2013
- COSIAC 2012 briefing paper “Increasing access to scholarly outputs”
- COSIAC 2012 Open Access FAQ
- College & Research Library News published Making your publications open access – Resources to assist researchers and librarians – useful information with links – esp if developing a LibGuide
- Erway, R, (2013) Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy, OCLC Research, 9 December
- Open Access Resource Centre from CCC & ALPSP includes policy from around the world, opinion pieces and practical advice on how to approach your open access publishing as well as other relevant websites, categorised by region and resource type
- Open Access Daily is a blog maintained by a pharmacist and links out to tweets, news, blogs etc
Links to open access pages in Australia
Note: these are mostly pages of information. For specific policies see here.
- Australian Catholic University Scholarly Publishing & Open Access
- Australian National University Open Access pages
- Central Queensland University Open Access LibGuide
- Charles Darwin University Open Access Subject Guide
- Curtin University Open Access and espace@Curtin
- Deakin University Open Access and Copyright
- Flinders University About Open Access
- Griffith University Open Access pages
- James Cook University Open Access Publishing LibGuide
- Macquarie University Open Access page
- Melbourne University Open Access and scholarly communication
- Monash University FAQS: Self-Publishing, Open Access, Legal Deposit and ISBN Numbers
- Murdoch University Creative Commons & Open Access
- QUT Open Access
- Sunshine Coast University Open Access page
- Sydney University Open Access page
- University of Adelaide Adelaide Research & Scholarship
- University of Canberra OA Toolkit
- University of Newcastle Open Access Guide
- University of Queensland Open Access pages
- University of South Australia Open Access Publishing LibGuide
- University of Tasmania Open Access Resources
- University of Technology, Sydney Open Access
- University of Western Australia Open Access Toolkit
- University of Western Sydney Open Access page
- Victoria University Open access publishing & NHMRC/ARC mandates
- Wollongong University Open Access LibGuide
International organisations supporting open access
- Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
- Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
- OA2020 initiative (OA2020)
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Page last updated November 15, 2016
