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.
Open scholarship and the use of corporate software services such as Zoom are not always compatible.
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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.
India’s plan indicates that commercial publishers are winning over the application of the open access system to make scholarly literature available for everyone.
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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.
Network of Covid-19 projects on the JOGL platform.
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Universities have a responsibility to reduce barriers in student learning, and one way to do this is through creating textbooks that are free to students.
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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.
Open access journals come with hidden costs.
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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.
There’s huge societal value in opening up access to knowledge resources.
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"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.
Soon you could be looking at microscopic creatures with your mobile phone.
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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.
Data should be open, shareable - but not at the expense of African researchers and communities.
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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.
Locking articles away behind a paywall stifles access.
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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.
There is a huge appetite for science and other research - so why aren’t more academic publications truly ‘open access’?
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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.