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(Australia) Australian open access push goes from green to gold – Times Higher Education (John Ross | November 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in on December 6, 2021

The Linked Original Item was Posted On November 22, 2021

A view along a Nullarbor highway banked by trees under a sunny sky.

While progress has been hamstrung by lack of scale or regulatory force, advocates say the time has come

Covid-19 has helped breathe urgency into Australia’s slow-moving campaign to make its publicly funded research openly accessible.

It is a shame not to see similar moves by Australia’s peak research funding bodies or our Federal government, we are thrilled by this development.  We strongly believe science should not only be open, it should be not-for-profit as well.  We hope this great move will further the drive towards democratising scientific knowledge.

Since mid-October the Council of Australian University Librarians (Caul) has signed “transformative agreements” with major scholarly publishers Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press and Wiley. The deals wrap processing charges to exempt journal articles from paywalls into the subscription fees universities pay to the journals’ publishers.

Australian chief scientist Cathy Foley, who has embraced open science as a key policy focus, wants to elevate the role of such agreements. Under her proposed Australian model for open access, a “central implementing body” armed with a “central pool of funds” would negotiate comprehensive national agreements with each publisher.

The agreements would enable anyone in the world to read Australian peer-reviewed journal articles, and anyone in Australia to read the journals in their entirety. Dr Foley argues that the costs may not exceed what Australian research institutions already pay in article processing and subscription fees, which she estimates at between A$460 million (£252 million) and A$1 billion a year.

 

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1 thought on “(Australia) Australian open access push goes from green to gold – Times Higher Education (John Ross | November 2021)”

  1. Em Johnson
    December 7, 2021 at 10:12 am

    “[…] the costs may not exceed what Australian research institutions already pay in article processing and subscription fees, which she estimates at between A$460 million (£252 million) and A$1 billion a year.”

    How can you possibly consider this ‘not for profit’? The Gold model preserves the for-profit business model. Green OA is free of cost.

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