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How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity
Open Access – Open Science is a movement to make research outputs available to all instead of being locked behind a paywall. Open Access Week is celebrated worldwide and is an opportunity to promote and learn about the benefits of Open Access publishing and the latest developments occurring world wide. Attend the events listed below to learn more about Open Access and why it is important for building equity in scientific research information.
Open Access publications are digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Suber 2012). The Open Access movement is based on the philosophy that knowledge derived from public funding should be freely accessible for public use.
Open Access can make the difference between being cited and not cited. The easier it is to access a work, the more likely it is to be downloaded, read and cited. Increasingly, funding agencies are placing Open Access conditions on the publications resulting from research grants, requiring you to deposit a copy of your article in your institution’s Repository, ResearchOnline@JCU.
OA Events at JCU and beyond.
Open Access Week webinar
Open Access Week Webinar will be held online on 28 October with Dr Ginny Barbour, Director, Open Access Australasia, and Professor Sarah Larkins, Dean, JCU College of Medicine and Dentistry as speakers. Registrations and more information.
Award presentations
Winners of the two JCU Open Access awards, the HDR Open Access Advocate Award 2021, and the ECR Open Access Champion Award 2021 will be will be announced at a presentation event to be held on 25 October. Registrations and more information.
National events organized by the Australasian Open Access
For more details and registration for all the below events please visit the website.
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Monday October 25 |
12-1pm |
Growing the Value of Research by Nurturing the Open Knowledge Ecosystem
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Tuesday October 26 |
12-1pm |
Shaking up the Culture of Research Assessment
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Tuesday October 26 |
2-3pm |
Hack OA Everyday: Virtual Escape Room
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Wednesday October 26 |
12-1pm |
Open Across the Research Spectrum: what different disciplines can learn from each other
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Wednesday October 26 |
2-3pm |
How to Address Global Challenges with Open Science
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Thursday October 27 |
12-1pm |
Indigenous Voices: research principles and practice through a First Nations lens
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Friday October 28 |
12-1pm |
Another Kind of Open: exploring the benefits and barriers to the creation and use of open educational resources
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Friday October 28 |
2-3pm |
Making Research Truly Accessible: insight unshared is thwarted potential
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