{"id":6852,"date":"2018-10-23T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2018-10-23T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:37:59","slug":"open-access-week-at-aut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=6852","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Week at AUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Open Access Week<\/a>! Woohoo!<\/p>\n

October 22 – 28, 2018 is an international week of celebration for free and open scholarship. For those who are new to the term, ‘Open Access’ (often shortened to ‘OA’) is a mode of research dissemination that promotes free access instead of paywalls and profit. Open Access is a hot topic these days, because it challenges the near-monopoly of traditional research publishers, who are known to make eye-watering profits without paying the academics who write articles and perform peer reviews.<\/p>\n

In the traditional business model for academic publishing, a few big companies own the majority of academic journals, and they control access to research by charging universities to subscribe to databases (or charging for individual downloads). The AUT Library<\/a> maintains access to databases through a complex network of subscriptions with multiple research publishers, meaning that we as researchers don’t have to navigate multiple publishers and paywalls.<\/p>\n

But our library, and many other academic libraries, promotes OA as a better solution in the long-term. Research outputs from AUT staff and students are published via Tuwhera<\/a>, our open access repository. Anyone can access the research outputs within Tuwhera, without paying a cent. That means that the authors placing their work there can reach more readers, and the knowledge within those outputs can be shared, cited, and built upon freely.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to learn more, or join the conversation about Open Access, please come along to AUT Library’s Open Access Week event. You’ll see clips from a documentary about the academic publishing industry, and have a chance to discuss OA and what it means for you. \"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paywall – the business of scholarship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 25 October, 2-3pm<\/p>\n

WG404, City campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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