Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Events are listed here: https://www.openeducationweek.org/events

The University of California Press formally launched two open access publishing programs, Collabra (an open access megajournal) and Luminos (open access monographs). Both Collabra and Luminos launch with a distinguished group of advisory board members, editors, authors, and reviewers from universities and associations around the globe. From the UC Press Announcement: “These programs have been […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the world’s strongest policy in support of open research and open data. see: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-information/open-access-policy As from January 2015, Gates-funded researchers must make open their resulting papers and underlying data-sets immediately upon publication. Papers must be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY) allowing unrestricted […]

Free webinar: Open Educational Practice – what, why and how? Tuesday 9th December, 1–2pm (Australian EDT) 3-4pm in New Zealand OERs are only a part of the wider topic; OEP includes a different way of thinking, planning and managing for the open sharing of teaching practices. But how much is aspirational and how far have […]

Following the successful project to produce an open text book and document the process members of the Open Minds Group have developed a useful guide to selecting open course resources. Refer: A Guide to selecting the right course resources This guide outlines activities for selecting, compiling and maintaining peer reviewed content that will provide benefits […]

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, recommends in his newly released STEM strategy that the government “enhance dissemination of Australian STEM research by expanding open access policies and improving the supporting infrastructure.” and “Support the translation and commercialisation of STEM discoveries through: … a modern and flexible IP framework that embraces a range of capabilities […]

Non-profit group Knowledge Unlatched is piloting a collective procurement approach to open access books. The model depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single title fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons license via the open access repository service OAPEN […]

View exceptional real-world applications of Open Access research. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsZ7DwsMWc&feature=youtu.be This 5min video features six teams of scientists whose innovative reuse of existing research enabled important advances in medical treatment and detection, ecology and science education. These examples demonstrate how the reuse of Open Access research can accelerate scientific progress and benefit society as a whole. […]

DigitalNZ have launched Mix & Mash 2013!  This is a competition that is about encouraging people to be creative with material that is free and legal to reuse, remix, mashup, to tell stories by re-purposing “open stuff” in compelling ways. The programme for 2013 differs from the 2010 & 2011 competitions.  In 2013 there are […]

Australia’s biggest research funding body the ARC is preparing to change its funding rules to mandate open access publishing for the research it funds.  The intention is to align with the new National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) policy which now requires that all researchers that it funds must add their outputs to an […]