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In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
For science to be open, one can reasonably think that it would have to use open software. However, being completely open is not that easy.
Higher education should provide access for as many people as possible to fulfil their potential as individuals. Leaders in higher education must be ready to examine what it will take to achieve this.
All modern scientists should share ownership of their knowledge and research.
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
Scientists and science publishers are sharing information as fast as they can during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speed and openness bring new challenges, but they are the way forward for research.
Individually, we are all helpless in the face of the coronavirus crisis. A global collaborative boom is changing the way science is done.
But there are also risks to open science.
Universities and colleges could eliminate textbook fees if they supported the creation of open educational resources.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It's a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
An urgent discussion is needed around the cost of research publications.
Digital publishing hasn't resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars' labor.
Globally, the scholarly publishing system is in dire need of financial and legislative change.
"Soft" infrastructure includes the services, policies or practices that keep academic research working and open. Without a funded, coordinated national approach the private sector may take control.
Even though you don’t think of your mobile phone as being anything like a microscope, it’s got almost all the parts you need.
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
A focus on collaboration among African universities and research institutions is crucial in developing national policies that meet the principles of open data while keeping it safe from exploitation.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
Top contributors
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Danny Kingsley is a Friend of The Conversation.Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Director, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London
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Warwick Anderson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Secretary-General, International Human Frontier Science Program Organisation; Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Assoc. Vice Provost, University of Texas at Austin
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in Medical Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University
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University Librarian, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
