<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div>[Forwarding from Council of Australian University Librarians. --Peter Suber.]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)<br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b>Context</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>CAUL’s mission is to support its members in the achievement of their objectives, especially the provision of access to, and training in the use of, scholarly information; leadership in the management of information and contribution to the university experience. In this context, Open Scholarship is a core issue for CAUL.</div>
<div><br></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>Open Scholarship is an umbrella term used to describe developments such as open access[1], open science and other “open” initiatives. It reflects the increasingly open nature of access to information, research collaboration, and the sharing and re-use of research data. The free flow of information and ideas underpins excellence in scholarship. It also contributes to the building of informed communities, reduces barriers to learning, facilitates the elimination of social and economic disadvantage and fosters international collaboration and understanding.</div>
<div><br></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>Advancing Open Scholarship is dependent on systems of publishing and communication that enable the rapid and affordable dissemination of the outcomes of research and scholarship, and on the preservation of the scholarly record for future use. The support of Open Scholarship by CAUL recognises that:</div>
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Digital communications offer opportunities for the development of more efficient and effective systems for the dissemination of information including academic publishing.</div></font></div></div></blockquote><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>
<br></div></font></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>Research is increasingly conducted globally by collaborations facilitated by grids of communications and computing power. Access to shared information resources assists such endeavours.</div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>Open access to the outcomes of scholarship enhances the profile of universities and research programs, contributes to the further advancement of knowledge, and highlights the contributions of research funders.</div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>Maintaining the quality and authority of academic publishing; the integrity of the scholarly record and the rights of creators is of critical importance and integral to open scholarship.</div>
</font></div></div></blockquote><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div><br></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b>Goals</b></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">CAUL and its members seek to facilitate Open Scholarship by:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Collaborating with researchers, research institutions and publishers to raise awareness </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">of the principles, practice and benefits of open access publishing.</span></div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Working with researchers and others to enable appropriate open access to both their </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">published works and their primary research data.</span></div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Advocating and implementing policies to ensure fair use of copyrighted information for </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">educational and research purposes.</span></div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Cooperating with the Australian Government to improve access to scholarly information </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">through maximising the amount of information in the public domain or otherwise </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">available without economic restriction through open access to publicly funded research </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">findings and data.</span></div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Developing infrastructure components, including institutional repositories, that will </font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">facilitate open access to scholarly information</span></div>
</blockquote><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">CAUL acknowledges declarations in support of open access from the OECD, the World Summit on the Information Society, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), universities and university groups, research funding organisations, and from many bodies dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the building of open democratic societies.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">-- 1 October 2010</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[1] </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Open Access may be achieved in a variety of ways including publication in an open access journal or other open scholarly medium </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">or deposit in an open access repository but its availability must satisfy the definition of open access in the Budapest Open Access </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Initiative 2002 (<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml</a> ):</span></span></div>
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<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.</span></div>
</font></div></div></blockquote><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br></span></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">For an overview of Open Access see <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm</a></span></font></div>
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