CQUni joins worldwide movement, makes research easier to access
Published on 25 October, 2012
CQUniversity has joined the international 'Open Access Week' campaign to ensure academics embrace open and transparent access to their research findings.
The campaign aims to make the copyright rule work better by reclaiming the ability for research findings to be accessed, even if they are in articles hidden behind pay walls in journals.
Link to http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/openaccessweek for details.
Open Access Week launch participants Professor Chad Hewitt, Library Director Graham Black, Dr Corneel Vandelanotte and Copyright and Repository Services Librarian Catherine Wattiaux The University boosted its 'Open Access Week' campaign by holding video-linked morning teas at eight campuses stretching all the way from Mackay to Melbourne.
Twenty-five researchers who together submitted 202 publications to CQUniversity's ACQUIRE database* went into a draw for five $2000 grants towards their research or publishing activities. The grant winners were: Dr Corneel Vandelanotte, Karin Stokes, Nirmal Mandal, Professor Bruce Knight and Mitchell McClanachan.
CQUniversity Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Chad Hewitt says that major grants bodies are now demanding an open access approach. In addition, articles published under open access are attracting two to three times the number of citations (mentions by other academics).
"Research is often funded by the public purse so it's desirable that industry and other stakeholders have open access to research findings.
"We hope to double the rate of open access publication submissions this week alone through our campaign."
* There are currently 7986 works in the ACQUIRE database, 25-30% of which are Open Access.
for more information on Open Access itself and what you can do to promote it check out the links below:
- ü A very brief introduction to Open Access
- ü WhatFacultycan do to promote Open Access
- ü WhatLibrarianscan do to promote Open Access
- ü WhatResearch Funderscan do to promote Open Access
- ü WhatUniversities and Administratorscan do to promote Open Access