November 2019: latest news on open access from the AOASG

What's new in OA & scholarly publishing in AU & NZ

OA WEEK 2019

CONZUL revised statement on Open scholarship
The Council of New Zealand University Libraries has released their new statement statement on Open scholarship which includes acknowledgement of the rights of Māori to maintain autonomy and control over access to taonga and intellectual property. It has also released its State of OA in New Zealand report which, as you can see in the infographic above, found a significant increase in citations of open access outputs.

NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation keynote
This month's national health funder symposium, Research translation in the digital age: harnessing the power of data and analytical technologies, will reflect on how we might more effectively optimise the use of health and medical research data, to inform health care policy and practice. Keynote speaker Prof Miguel Hernan has co-authored and just published a new book (open access, data & code) Causal Inference.

ARMS showcasing priorities
The Australasian Research Management Society has released a new video showcasing its five strategic priorities.

OA in the air
CEO of Tohatoha Aotearoa Commons, Mandy Henk, spoke on Radio NZ about keeping research open and their new campaign.You can listen to the broadcast here. She also spoke to 95bFM News and did a blog on The Spinoff. Our own Ginny Barbour was one of a panel of three who delivered a webinar (with a staggering 1600 registered participants) aimed at advancing research in Indonesia. You can listen here.

General News

UK Government Dept makes OA a priority
A review of Open Access Research commissioned by the UK's Department of International Development has found the department needs to align its approach to OA with other key donors and funders in the UK and around the world. It outlines a number of themes and recommendations to improve the current situation:

Top ten for funding Open Infrastructure
SPARC Europe is proposing a set of principles by which Open infrastructures can be sustained. Read more.

Develop a scholarly infrastructure landscape that promotes diversity, one that is more coordinated; a commons.
A balance of power needs to exist, since more infrastructure must be shared and built upon together, developing Alfred Marshall’s idea of the industrial district where both collaboration and competition thrive.
Engage and model on existing scholarly communication infrastructure networks to build a healthier connected ecosystem that integrates and works.
Establish a solid understanding of the academy, funding, and infrastructure offering in order to identify needs, lessons learnt, and contexts to develop a successful strategy for funding infrastructure.
Streamline not-for-profit infrastructure back-offices so that they are able to manage administrative processes, marketing and other challenges more easily and more efficiently.
To fund infrastructure, Open Research policy matches with practice so that infrastructure acquires the funding it needs. Funds are made available for scholarly infrastructure through more national Open Research or Open Science funds, as seen in France, for example.
Consolidate more funding streams among and across stakeholders to reach infrastructure goals more rapidly.
Make scholarly infrastructure a fixed budget line for ministries, funders, the academy and its libraries, for learned societies, and service providers.
Simplify payment mechanisms for those who wish to fund and for those who acquire funding.
And, last but not least, consistently collaborate regionally, nationally and internationally for a global solution to sustain scholarly infrastructure.

Disinformation tool for Wikipedia
A new tool that automatically links every Wikipedia citation to a print source to the exact page and passage from the book itself, which can be read on the Internet Archive, has been instituted on Wikipedia. The citations will strengthen Wikipedia authority in this era of fake news and misinformation. Read more.

UNESCO issues Guidelines on the development of open educational resources policies
From the introduction "It is meant to be referenced as a hands-on plan to develop subject-matter knowledge for policy makers on OER and a framework to provoke critical thinking on how OER should be leveraged to address challenges in achieving the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) in different local contexts." Available here.

Publisher negotiations

MIT launch publisher negotiation guide

MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts

No author will be required to waive any institutional or funder open access policy to publish in any of the publisher’s journals.

No author will be required to relinquish copyright, but instead will be provided with options that enable publication while also providing authors with generous reuse rights.

Publishers will directly deposit scholarly articles in institutional repositories immediately upon publication or will provide tools/mechanisms that facilitate immediate deposit.

Publishers will provide computational access to subscribed content as a standard part of all contracts, with no restrictions on non-consumptive, computational analysis of the corpus of subscribed content.

Publishers will ensure the long-term digital preservation and accessibility of their content through participation in trusted digital archives.

Institutions will pay a fair and sustainable price to publishers for value-added services, based on transparent and cost-based pricing models.

Hungary and Elsevier agree pilot national license for research access and Open Access publishing

EISZ consortium

Concerns raised over terms of potential agreement between Netherlands and Elsevier

A leaked document