CAUL will undertake sector-wide work that focuses on enablement of open access, that supports institutions in implementing, communicating, delivering, and evaluating their open access initiatives. CAUL will continue to contribute to discourse about transforming scholarly communication practice and infrastructure for open scholarly communications, to engage in national and international policy and strategy discussions, and to advocate for open access to government and other stakeholders. The Open Access Program complements and extends the open access procurement work undertaken by the CAUL Procurement Service, with a broader focus on policy and practice to enable sustainable approaches to open access.
This program builds on the work of predecessor programs:
- Advancing Open Scholarship, 2020 to 2022
- FAIR Affordable and Open Access to Knowledge, 2017 to 2019.