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<div><Apologies for cross posting></div>
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<div>The AOASG has just posted a new blog: "<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.2; ">Assessing research impact: AOASG submission" </span><a href="http://aoasg.org.au/2013/08/26/assessing-research-impact-aoasg-submission" style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.2; ">http://aoasg.org.au/2013/08/26/assessing-research-impact-aoasg-submission</a><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.2; ">/ </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Background: </span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Measuring the impact of research has been on and off the government’s agenda for many years now </span><font color="#444444"><span style="line-height: 24px; ">… </span></font><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The
Department of Innovation in now planning to design and develop an assessment of impact with the plan to run a pilot exercise in 2014. To that end the Department released a Discussion Paper in July – “</span><a href="http://www.innovation.gov.au/Research/Documents/DiscussionPaper.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; color: rgb(159, 159, 159); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Assessing
the wider benefits arising from university-based research</a><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">” </span><font color="#444444" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 24px; ">… </span></font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 24px; ">Given
that one of the goals of AOASG is increasing the uptake of open access, we prepared a submission for the discussion paper with the general philosophy that open access should be recognised as a means for increasing impact and therefore some reward should be
associated with making work accessible.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254); ">We should have an indication of how the pilot will be structured in a few months.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">Dr Danny Kingsley</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">Executive Officer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">Australian Open Access Support Group</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">e: <a href="mailto:eo@aoasg.org.au">eo@aoasg.org.au</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">p: +612 6125 6839</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">w: wwww.aoasg.org.au</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">t: @openaccess_oz</p>
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