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Open Access Initiative

OA Journals @ CQUniversity

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development

Transformations: online journal of region, culture and society

Australian University Open Access
Institutional Repositories - see below

NEWS
28 Sept 2006 - QUT Open Access Knowledge (OAK) Project releases report on copyright management for research output http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ 

What is Open Access?

An Open Access work requires that:

  • the author/copyright holder/s to grant all users a free, irrevocable, world-wide, perpetual (for the lifetime of the applicable copyright) right of access to, and a licence to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

  • a complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organisation that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.

"What Is Open Access?" By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. A preprint is now available. It will appear in: Jacobs, Neil, ed. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2005).

Harnad, Stevan. 'The self-archiving initiative: freeing the refereed research literature online '. Nature, 410, 2001, p.1024.

 

Open Access Statements and Definitions

"Budapest Open Access Initiative ", February 2002.
"Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing ", 20 June 2003.
"Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities ", 22 October 2003.

"Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee Open Access Statement ", 17 December 2004.
Group of Eight "Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Information", 25 May 2004.

 SHERPA-logo.gif Sherpa (RoMEO) Project - Harmonizing Open Access self-archiving and journal publication.
 OA100.gif The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) promotes interoperability of archives-compliant software to the research community to aid searching across an increasing international network of institutional repositories.
 linkse1.gif Creative Commons offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
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Home page of Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity and co-founder of Creative Commons.

 

Open Access Institutional Repositories

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 Australian Digital Theses ADT Access to PhD and Masters (coursework) Theses
 arrowlogo.gif CQUniversity has launched an IR called aCQUIRe.
CQU is a partner in ARROW - Australian Research Repositories Online to the World
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 aCQUIRe uses the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 2.5 License as the default licence for works deposited.


See also:

Australian Maritime College
 http://library.amc.edu.au/amcpubs.htm  
Australian Catholic University 
  
Australian National University http://dspace.anu.edu.au
http://eprints.anu.edu.au
Bond University http://epublications.bond.edu.au/
CQUniversity http://library.cqu.edu.au/cgi-bin/chameleon?skin=acquire
Curtin University
 http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au
Charles Darwin University
 under development
Charles Sturt University
 under development
Deakin University  
Edith Cowan University  
Flinders University http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/
Griffith University
 http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/
James Cook University
 http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/
La Trobe University under development with ARROW
Macquarie University under development with ARROW
Monash University http://arrowprod.lib.monash.edu.au
http://eprint.monash.edu.au
Murdoch University under development with ARROW
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) http://eprints.qut.edu.au
RMIT University  
Southern Cross University http://epubs.scu.edu.au
Swinburne University of Technology http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au
University of Adelaide http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/
University of Ballarat  
University of Canberra  
University of Melbourne
 http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au
University of New England
 under development with ARROW
University of New South Wales
 http://arrow.unsw.edu.au
University of Newcastle http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/access/
University of Queensland http://espace.library.uq.edu.au
http://eprint.uq.edu.au
University of South Australia
 http://arrow.unisa.edu.au
University of Southern Queensland http://eprints.usq.edu.au
University of Sydney http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au
University of Tasmania http://eprints.utas.edu.au/
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace
University of the Sunshine Coast under development with ARROW
University of Western Australia  
University of Western Sydney under development with ARROW
University of Wollongong http://ro.uow.edu.au
Victoria University http://eprints.vu.edu.au