[GOAL] PRESS RELEASE - Launch of new Australian Open Access Support Group

[Danny Kingsley]

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

Please find a press release about the launch of a new Australian Open
Access Support Group attached. The body of the release is copied below.

 

Regards

 

Dr Danny Kingsley

 

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PRESS RELEASE

 

A new voice for Australian open access celebrates Open Access Week 2012 

 

The new Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) was launched this
week to coincide with international Open Access Week 2012
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12> . Open Access makes the results of publicly funded research freely
available on the web to the world. Open Access helps to increase the
speed and visibility of research and improves community awareness of the
results.

 

AOASG aims to be a concerted and coordinated Australian voice in support
of open access. The group will lobby government, have a media presence,
and provide advice and support to both research funding agencies and
research institutions on how to best implement open access policy,
practices and supporting infrastructure. 

 

The AOASG is being founded by six Australian universities which already
have an open access policy requiring published research outputs to be
made available: the Australian National University, Charles Sturt
University, Macquarie University, University of Newcastle, Queensland
University of Technology and Victoria University.

 

Support for the open access movement has been increasing steadily. This
year marks the sixth international Open Access Week - designed to raise
awareness of and celebrate open access around the world - with the call
to 'set the default to open access'. Many Australian universities are
marking the week with events and giveaways. 

 

Developments in open access have attracted significant attention in the
media in recent months. One of Australia's two main funding bodies, the
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has a new open
access policy requiring that the results of any research funded by NHMRC
research grants are made available open access within 12 months of the
publication date. The Australian Research Council (ARC) is considering a
similar policy. 

 

Every university in Australia has a digital database, called a
repository, in which research outputs can be made freely available to
the world. There are already more than 200,000 Australian research
outputs feely available in these Australian repositories.

 

The AOASG is developing resources and advocacy materials which will be
available on an open access website early 2013.

 

Ms Judy Stokker, Director, Library Services QUT and Chair AOASG

 

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Dr Danny Kingsley

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Manager, Scholarly Communications and ePublishing

Scholarly Information Services

Room 3.12b

Chifley Library, Building 15

The Australian National University

Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

 

E: danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au <mailto:danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au> 

T: +612 6125 6839

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NOTE: I work three days a week: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think
about open access 24/7.

 

 

 

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