Published August 29, 2021 | Version v1
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Seek the New Zealand solution to open access publishing

Creators

  • 1. Royal Society Te Apārangi

Description

  • The three main routes for NZ to transition to open access are identified as author self-archiving, the article publication charge (APC) model, or transformative agreement.
  • The preprint initiative can effectively complement the above three approaches by making early versions of journal papers publicly accessible.
  • The author self-archiving model requires little extra cost and can make a huge difference to the accessibility of accepted manuscripts.
  • US$2,000,000+ needs to be set aside by NZ funders to publish all papers via the APC route, based on a rough estimate.
  • Council for New Zealand University Libraries (CONZUL) could seek to reach cost-neutral transformative agreements with publishers by re-purposing their current subscription expenditure.
  • An explicit national-level open access policy is expected to be made by NZ government and funders.
  • We need a NZ solution instead of simply replicating others.

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Seek the New Zealand solution to open access publishing (Fei He).pdf

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