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Community over Commercialization 

Open Access Week October 23 - 29, 2023 

“Open Access Week 2023 is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.” - https://www.openaccessweek.org/ 

Tuesday 24th October 10am  

Free Options for Publishing  

What are the options for making your work Open Access without paying an Article Processing Charge? 

This session will introduce you to the "Green" Open Access route via Federation ResearchOnline, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and how to find Q1 & Q2 journals covered by the Read and Publish agreements that Federation has access to through CAUL. 

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Tuesday 24th  October 11am 

Federations Open access Presentation and Award event 

The Open Access Week 2023 presentation will consider the use of AI and its potential impact on research ethics and integrity. Issues including authorship, peer review, reviewing the literature, and research data governance and management will be discussed. The presentation will also include use cases on when it is or is not appropriate to use AI and in particular Generative AI. 

This will be followed by the presentation of the 2023 Library Open Access Award. 

Speakers: Dr David Blades, Senior Coordinator, Research Integrity and Governance, RMIT University 

Fotini Toso, Coordinator, Research Governance and Ethics, RMIT University 

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Tuesday 24th October 2023 12 noon 

Open Access Australasia: Community over commercialisation - What is community control and why does it matter? 

Different communities have different needs, aims and priorities about the knowledge they hold and create. There can be a tension between open access and community control of that knowledge. How do communities keep control of their knowledge while opening it to the world? How can open access be used to help build and strengthen communities? 

This session looks at the ways communities openly share their knowledge. It also explores how sometimes community and commercial interests can coexist. 

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Tuesday 24th October 2 pm 

CAUL Webinar:  Support for Open and FAIR Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTROs) 

This Open Access Week, CAUL is pleased to launch a framework for supporting Open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) non-traditional research outputs (NTROs), in Australian Academic Libraries. 

Join us for a webinar where the project team will share the goals, approaches, and key insights from this project, followed by an opportunity to ask your questions. 

This project is an initiative of the CAUL Advancing Open Scholarship program. 

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Tuesday 25th October 3 pm 

Open Educational Resources (OERs) – adopting open resources 

What are Open Educational Resources? We will give you a brief introduction into the world of OERs with a special focus on adopting an open textbook for your teaching. 

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Wednesday 25th October 10 am 

Federation's Read and Publish Agreements 

This short webinar will introduce you to the Read and Publish agreements Federation have access to through CAUL. These agreements with many of the top publishers allow Federation Authors to publish open access with no author fee's. 

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Wednesday 25th October 12 noon 

Open Access Australasia: Like an open book: can academic communities ensure our voices are heard by all? 

Books are where we record our knowledge, for us and for others. However, books remain far less open than journal articles. Why is this? What opportunities are there for academic communities to improve access to our knowledge and culture? How can uniquely Australasian voices be heard? 

In this session, we will hear from panellists working in different ways to improve access to books. In the second hour, participants will be given the chance to reflect on the discussion and share their thoughts. 

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Thursday 26th October 10 am  

Open Access Week: Finding Open Data 

This webinar gives an introductory overview of the open data landscape. The session will cover what open data is, how to find open data sources and how to share your own research data.  

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Thursday 26th October 26 12 noon 

Open Access Australasia: Shine on Diamond journals: making sure they’re forever 

Diamond open access journals are an important but undervalued part of the open access journal publishing system. They often lack infrastructure, funding and coordination. 

This workshop, which is being run as a satellite meeting as part of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access being held in Mexico this week, will hear from those already involved in successful diamond OA initiatives, workshop what is needed for successful diamond OA journals, and develop a plan for necessary next steps in this region. 

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Thursday 26th October 26 3 pm 

Open Educational Resources (OERs) – adapting to support your teaching 

One of the advantages of OERs is the possibility of adapting already existing materials to support your teaching and the needs of your student cohorts 

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Friday 27th October 12 noon 

Creating space for Indigenous and Pacific research 

Part 1: Publishing avenues for Indigenous-led research  

How do Indigenous academics share their research in a way that is meaningful to them and the communities they wish to serve? A number of Indigenous-led open access journals have been set up with the purpose of exploring Indigenous and Pacific issues and concerns, providing an opportunity to disseminate research. This session will explore the driving force behind the development of  these journals, and the challenges in getting Indigenous research out into the scholarly community. 

Part 2: Engagement with indigenous knowledge  

How do Indigenous communities share their knowledge in a way that aligns with their community rules and protocols? How can we ensure Indigenous knowledge is treated respectfully when it is in the public domain? This session will explore some of the recent initiatives seeking to tackle these questions. 

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