September/October 2019: what's in this issue
What's new in OA & scholarly publishing in AU & NZ
What's new in OA & scholarly publishing globally
Recent writing & resources on OA
Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing
In the lead up to International Open Access this month we are pulling together a list of OA events happening in Australian & New Zealand. If you would like us to promote any event on our OA Week page or on Twitter please let us know.
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NHMRC Symposium
The theme of this year's annual NHMRC Symposium is 'Research Translation in the digital age: harnessing the power of data and analytical technologies.' The full program for the 8th Annual event, this year in Melbourne is now available online. REGISTER HERE
Tohatoha campaign goes public
 Our friends across the ditch, Tohatoha Aotearoa Commons, have launched a new public engagement campaign around open access. It's been 12 months in the making and is aimed at the general public as well as researchers. Tohatoha is a not for profit organisation focusing on openness and equity in the digital world and is funded by StatsNZ and InternetNZ. Look at the great videos they've created, read the report, and sign up to the declaration here.
ARDC summits
The Australian Research Data Commons' Infrastructure and Data Summits are being held on 21 October. The infrastructure summit provides an opportunity to engage with research organisations looking at issues, trends, gaps & requirements for research storage & compute Infrastructure. The data services summit will bring together stakeholders interested in developing a more coherent national data system.
CAUL research repositories Community event in Sydney
An opportunity for the research repository community and those interested in research repositories to come together, discuss what is going on in their institutions, share best-practice and to hear about the latest developments in research repositories.
Registration is open to repositories practitioners from within universities and outside.
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General news
Call for international coordination on negotiations
Carlos Moedas, the outgoing European commissioner for research, science and innovation, has said to the T imes Higher Education that nations should strike deals with academic publishers together, rather than negotiating country by country and weakening their power. Read more.
Scholarly publishing initiatives in South Asia
There is an analysis of developing world scholarly publishing and Open Access initiatives in South Asia from Aamir Raoof Memon (Institute of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women, Pakistan - Read more Scholarly publishing and research dissemination in South Asia: some exemplary initiatives and the way forward
Plan S
Pledge from COAR for respostories
COAR and cOAlitionS share a common aim to accelerate the transition to full and immediate open access to scholarly publications and COAR supports the vision and principles outlined in Plan S. In order to ensure that repositories can comply with Plan S, COAR and cOAlitionS have announced that they intend to work together to support repositories in adhering to the requirements through the following activities:
- COAR will engage with the most widely adopted repository platforms to determine their current capabilities to support Plan S, identify any challenges, and provide expertise and knowledge to help with the adoption of technical requirements by the platforms.
- COAR will work through its members, partners and regional networks to provide leadership and guidance related to the adoption of persistent identifiers, standard vocabularies, and quality metadata in repositories.
- COAR will provide cOAlitionS with relevant feedback from different regions and the repository community about issues or barriers to the endorsement and implementation of Plan S.
- COAR and cOAlitionS will work on a strategic roadmap to strengthen and transform the role of repositories in supporting open access and open science.
WHO backing Plan S
The World Health Organization has joined the group of national research agencies, institutions and funders backing Open Access advocates cOAlition S. Read more. Another new supporter is Aligning Science Against Parkinson’s (ASAP).
UK Consultancy appointed for Plan S comms
A key aim for cOAlition S is to help make the nature and prices of OA publishing services more transparent. The Wellcome Trust, UKRI & cOAlition S have thus engaged the Information Power consultancy to lead a collaborative project with publishers, funders and universities to develop a communication framework for stakeholders to work together to accelerate the transition to Open Access.
Champion announced
The new champion for Plan S has been announced. Johan Rooryck is a Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University, and probably most notable recently for his work in taking his entire journal (Lingua) and editorial board from Elsevier to found a new Fair Open Access journal, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. Read more.
Report & toolkit created for transition
A good piece of work that has come out of Plan S is this Report and Toolkit to Support Learned Society Publishers Transition to Immediate Open Access, which was commissioned by Wellcome and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – two UK members of cOAlition S – in partnership with the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers. It includes licences, information on negotiations and contract templates.
Past and future of OA
Growth of OA
There is a very interesting analysis on the projected future growth and readership of OA from Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem and Richard Orr. Headlines include that In 2019: 31% of all journal articles are available as OA but 52% of article views are to OA articles. They notes that "Green, Gold, and Hybrid papers receive more views than their Closed or Bronze counterparts, particularly Green papers made available within a year of publication." Read more.
PLOS Medicine turns 15
On a more historical note, it's 15 years since PLOS Medicine launched - as the second journal from PLOS. The journals is running a set of pieces reflecting on the journal.
Going beyond FAIR
A new set of Prin ciples (CARE) for Indigenous Data Governance have been developed by the
Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
CARE stands for Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics Read more here.
Preprints
JISC report on dramatic effects of preprints
A new report Accelerating scholarly communication: The transformative role of preprints has been released looking at the dramatic effect that preprints have had on scholarly publishing. Read report.
Preprint on Preprints
A preprint by Naomi Penfold and Jessica Polka from ASAPBio, discusses the rapid adoption of preprints, entitled Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences. They note four factors behind this adoption: that not sharing research immediately is now becoming usual in some fields; that experienced publishers have been drivers on the preprint initiative and they have established good links with journals; that funders are supporting preprints; and that Twitter has generally been a supportive community for preprints.
Peer review for preprints
EMBO and ASAPbio have partnered on a new platform for preprint review, which will launch in December 2019. Read more.
Report
SPARC Connect OER Annual Report out
2018-2019 Connect report offers insights about Open Education Resources (OER) activities & examines the current state of OER activities featuring data from 132 institutions in the US and Canada.
OPERAS & EASSH report on open book publishing
Open scholarly communication in the European research areas for social sciences and humanities and the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities have published a report of a meeting about open book publishing. This seems to have been driven in part by concerns about Plan S from the humanities, but seems to have been constructive in discussions.
Surveys of research assessment and culture
DORA are doing a survey ahead of a meeting on research assessment in October and are keen to get global feedback
Wellcome is also doing a survey on research culture - the background to which is laid out in this blog from the Director, Jeremy Farrar.
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Books & scholarly writing
Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing Joe Deville; Jeroen Sondervan; Graham Stone; Sofie Wennstrom
Open Access: Will the Paywalls Come Tumbling Down? Judy Ozkan
Assessing the Effectiveness of Open Access Finding Tools Elena Azadbakht; Jonathan Bull; Rosalind Bucy; Jeremy Floyd
10 Simple Rules for Innovative Dissemination of Research Tony Ross-Hellauer; Viltė Banelytė; Edit Gorogh; Daniela Luzi; Peter Kraker; Lucio Pisacane; Roberta Ruggieri; Electra Sifacaki; Jonathan Tennant; Michela Vignoli
Comparison of bibliographic data sources: Implications for the robustness of university rankings Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang; Cameron Neylon, Chloe Brookes-Kenworthy; Richard Hosking; Lucy Montgomery; Katie Wilson; Alkim Ozaygen
Blogs we're reading
Open access to teaching material – how far have we come? LSE Impact Blog
Top 5 Resources on Transformative Agreements OASPA - A Guest post from CCC
What Do Statements of Support for California Tell Us About the Big Deal? The Scholarly Kitchen
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Want more OA news?
We can't cover everything here! This is a curated list of items that caught our eye and/or which seem especially relevant to OA in this region. For daily updates the best source is the Open Access Tracking Project or if you prefer to be more selective, our Twitter account which has posts throughout each day.
The newsletter archive provides snapshots of key issues throughout the year. Other ways to keep in touch with discussions at AOASG include joining our community of practice calls or the listserve.
Follow us via twitter @openaccess_anz or online at http://aoasg.org.au
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