<div dir="ltr"><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><i>During
6-8 February 2013, several dozen citizens from different sectors of
Australia, New Zealand, the US and the UK came together for the
inaugural New Zealand Australia Open Research Conference. The group
included researchers, lawyers, librarians, research infrastructure
providers, technology consultants, and software developers.</i></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><i>New
Zealand and Australia are among those nations pioneering open
approaches across the public sector and in some aspects of research. The
Tasman Declaration recommends key actions through which New Zealand and
Australia can coordinate and advance their respective open approaches
to research towards greater economic, societal, and environmental
impact. </i></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Tasman Declaration</b></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Publicly
funded research should be openly available to maximise return on
investments into research, and to increase participation in research and
its translation beyond the traditional research sector.</span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">"Open
Research" is about removing barriers for society to benefit from
research, by ensuring open access to and reuse of research papers, data,
materials, metadata and code, and by developing the supporting
practices and policies.</span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">In
the absence of a good reason, research outputs should be made available
with as few restrictions as possible and as soon as possible.</span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Vision</b></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Society is able to access and reuse the outputs of publicly funded research for economic, societal, and environmental benefit.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Benefits of Open Research</b></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px">
<span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Open research is more transparent, accessible, efficient and reproducible.</span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Open Research will: </span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Open up the processes and practices of research</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Enable public involvement in the entire research process</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Give society better returns for the money invested in research</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Facilitate research translation thereby increasing societal, economic, and environmental impact</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Accelerate discovery by allowing timely and efficient feedback and quality control of the entire research process</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Recommendations</b></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px">
<span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">1) </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Policy Mandates</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> support and prioritise Open Research</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">2) </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Infrastructure and Capability</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> enable Open Research</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">3) </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Research Practice and Measurement</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> encourage and reward Open Research</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">We recommend that Australian and New Zealand research communities, institutions, policy makers, and funders </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>carry out the following actions</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">:</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><u>1) </u></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b><u>Policy Mandates</u></b></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Australian
and New Zealand governments should build Open Research into research
and innovation policy, particularly for the investment of public funds</span></li></ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">New Zealand and Australia should coordinate actions and share knowledge on policies and actions for Open Research</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><u>2) </u></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b><u>Infrastructure and Capability</u></b></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Governments
and institutions should coordinate actions to ensure that their
technical and social research infrastructure supports Open Research
policies and practices </span></li></ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Institutions
and researchers should enable and encourage access to, mining of, and
reuse of any and all research outputs, with as few restrictions as
possible and as soon as possible</span></li></ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Roles
and responsibilities of communities, institutions and government for
the curation and re-use of research outputs should be clearly
articulated. </span></li></ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><u>3) </u></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b><u>Research Practice and Measurement</u></b></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Government and institutions should expand the measures for research performance to incorporate Open Research practices</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Institutions and communities should foster research collaboration to exploit Open Research</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Conclusion</b></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px">
<span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Doing
research in the open brings research into alignment with worldwide
changes in government and business, where open innovation has enabled
people to achieve more together than they ever could alone.<br><br>(<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/tasman-declaration">https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/tasman-declaration</a>)<br></span></div>
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