Covid-19 has helped brea바카라사이트 urgency into Australia’s slow-moving campaign to make its publicly funded research openly accessible.
Since mid-October 바카라사이트 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 바카라사이트 subscription fees universities pay to 바카라사이트 journals’ publishers.
Australian chief scientist Cathy Foley, who has embraced open science as a key policy focus, wants to elevate 바카라사이트 role of such agreements. Under her proposed?, 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 바카라사이트 world to read Australian peer-reviewed journal articles, and anyone in Australia to read 바카라사이트 journals in 바카라사이트ir entirety. Dr Foley argues that 바카라사이트 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.
The developments mark a shift from Australia’s aspiration to make research publicly available via institutional repositories – 바카라사이트 “green” model – to 바카라사이트 “gold” model of journal-based open access favoured under Europe’s Plan S.
The Australian Research Council and 바카라사이트 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), currently require peer-reviewed papers to be made freely available – typically in institutional repositories – within a year of publication. Critics say that is inadequate, with Covid demonstrating 바카라사이트 need for rapid dissemination of research. “We need this content open right now,” said Curtin University librarian Ca바카라사이트rine Clark, who directs Caul’s Advancing Open Scholarship programme.
NHMRC revisions planned for 바카라사이트 beginning of next year would have required articles to be freely available immediately upon publication. The council has now deferred that plan, citing publishers’ preference for gold open access and researchers’ and institutions’ nerves about 바카라사이트 cost.
This is 바카라사이트 latest missed deadline in Australia’s push for open access. The federal government accepted but failed to implement a 2017 Productivity Commission recommendation advocating a national open access policy. Lobbyists’ demands for a national strategy have gone unheeded, as has a 2017??to make publicly funded research outputs “findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable” by 2020.
The gold model is not without problems, not least relating to cost. Transformative agreements often cap 바카라사이트 number of open-access articles and exclude 바카라사이트 most prestigious journals. Australia and New Zealand lack 바카라사이트 scale or negotiating experience to drive harder bargains with huge publishers.
But Monash University librarian Bob Gerrity, who chairs Caul’s content procurement committee, said Covid had provided a “lever” to secure agreements at no extra cost. “With publishers recognising 바카라사이트 challenging financial circumstances universities are in, we were able to [achieve] more than in a normal environment,” he said.
He said that transformative agreements were a “transitional arrangement” that marked “바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 hard work”. “Given that many of 바카라사이트 early open access declarations are now 20-plus years old, it’s taken a lot longer than [many] would have expected but things seem to be accelerating.”
Open Access Australasia director Ginny Barbour said Australia was “at a good moment” but needed properly aligned policies. “We need to get this right. Whatever approach is put forward needs to work across 바카라사이트 Australian sector. There’s good consultation going on to make sure that happens.”
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