Open Access Week 2021 @JCU Library

Following our post of 15 October, we are pleased to report that Open Access Week went off with a bang! The two major events we organised went off very well with good engagement and interest from the JCU community.

Open Access Awards

For the second year running we were very pleased to present two open access awards.

Firstly the HDR Open Access Advocate Award, a competition organised by the Library jointly with the GRS, invited HDR candidates to submit entries to a competition to answer the question,

“How do you benefit from open knowledge and why?”

The 2021 winners are:

Winner: Emenike Okonkwo (College of Science and Engineering)

Eminike holds his orange, pad-lock shaped trophy and smiles while Library Director Helen Hooper presents him with the certificate
Eminike Okinkwo with Director of Library
and Information Services, Helen Hooper


Highly Commended 1: Pamela Arumynathan (JCU Singapore)

A headshot of Pamela, who is smiling. She looks professional in a charcoal jacket and has a building in the Tropics as her background.
Pamela Arumynathan

Highly Commended 2: Hina Sheel (JCU Singapore)

Hina sits at a table arranging coloured plastic objects into some kind of pattern. She is looking up at the camera and smiling.
Hina Sheel

The ECR Open Access Champion Awards 2021 were presented to the JCU ECRs who, in the opinion of an expert judging panel, had made the greatest contribution to Open Access through their research publications within the previous three years.

The winners of the 2021 Awards are:

ECR Open Access Champion: Rachel Hay (College of Business, Law and Governance)

Rachel is holding her trophy, which is an orange and white representation of the Open Access open padlock, and smiles happily.
Rachel Hay


ECR Green Open Access Champion: Jacqueline Lau (ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reefs)

Jacqueline is holding her trophy, which is a 3D representation of the Green Open Access open padlock, and smiles. Next to her stands the Library Direcore, Helen Hooper, who is holding Jacquiline's certificate.
Jacqueline Lau with Helen Hooper


Highly Commended Adjunct for Open Access Publishing: Adeshine Adekunle (Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine)

Photo of Adeshine as he stands outside a building in a Tropical location. He is wearing a white polo shirt and looking directly at the camera through his glasses, with a slight smile.
Adeshine Adekunle

Opening up Research Webinar

This event was held online on 28 October with two great speakers:

·        Dr Ginny Barbour, Director, Open Access Australasia

Headshot of Ginny, who wears a red scarf around her neck. She is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.
Ginny Barbour

Opening up research in 2021: global and national developments and what it means for you

If 2020 was the year when open access really came to prominence because of its importance in dissemination of research and advancing knowledge in the pandemic, then 2021 was the year when concrete open policy initiatives were realised.

This talk gave us an insider’s perspective on some of the key international and regional developments and to discuss what they mean at a university and researcher level - including their relevance to publishing that supports locally important, including Indigenous, research.


Professor Sarah Larkins, Dean, College of Medicine and Dentistry

Headshot of Sarah, whi is wearing a floral shirt and standing in front of a number of Troipical plants. She is looking directly at the camera and smiling.
Sarah Larkins

Open access publication from a researcher’s perspective: good intent but problematic execution

The world of open access publication is changing rapidly, and researchers, funders and universities are struggling to keep up.  The intent to facilitate free and open availability of research findings is a good and fair one, and funders have responded by mandating open access for funded research.  Whilst there are small numbers of open access publications with no or low article publishing fees, many more are wildly expensive and beyond the capacity of most researchers or academic groups.   Libraries meanwhile are devoting their stretched resources to subscription fees.  This presentation will outline some of the challenges of this transitional period from the perspective of a researcher and research group leader.

 

The presentations were well received by the JCU academic and research community – if you happened to miss the webinar, you can still access the recording and speaker slides from here.

Want to know more about open access? Check out our Open Access Guide for information about the many benefits of open access and how you can publish open access, or contact us!

Five people are lined up in front of a shelf of bound volumes in a library. They are smiling at the camera, and the three in the middle are holding trophies and certificates.
Librarian Jayshree Mamtora, Rachel Hay,
Eminike Okonkwo, Jacqueline Lau
and Library Associate Director Bronwyn Mathiesen


Three women who are all wearing orange are standing in a library building, in front of a large window. The woman in the middle is holding a trophy, which is also orange, and they are all looking directly at the camera, smiling.
Wearing Orange for Open Access:
Anna Gibbons, Neha Neupane (with Eminike's award),
Jayshree Mamtora


A group selfie image taken in an office space shows four women wearing green clothing. Each person is wearing a different style of green shirt, in a different shade of green. They are all looking up at the camera and smiling
Wearing Green for Green Open Access (the most Open publishing method):
Librarians Jayshree Mamtora, Bronwyn Mathiesen, Sharon Bryan and Tove Lemberget


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