This report, commissioned by CAUL, for delivery to the DVCsR Committee, provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities arising from Plan S for Australian researchers and universities, including high-level recommendations on how Australian universities should proceed in order to meet compliance obligations from 2021.
The Consortium helps support the sustainability of open access and open science infrastructure and related services by coordinating sector-wide contributions or connecting interested institutions directly with service providers. Contributions coordinated by the CAUL Consortium SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) As an organisational member of SCOSS, CAUL coordinates a consortium arrangement to support…
Led by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL), Universities Australia and Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara, the sector will take a unified position in upcoming negotiations with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis.
As the peak body for the leaders of university libraries in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the Council of Australasian University Librarians plays a critical role in advocating for open access and open science more broadly and in enabling Member institutions to further their open access work. This statement from the CAUL Board broadly outlines…
This exploratory project explored the role of university libraries in ensuring that FAIR principles are applied to software and other non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) (e.g. film, creative writing, website design), including areas where there were opportunities to improve or expand practice. The project also explored how the CARE principles should be applied to these outputs.
This project developed a series of case studies of university libraries’ open publishing initiatives and accompanying researcher case studies that demonstrate the value of these initiatives. The case studies are useful within and beyond the library sector to support advocacy work and provide examples of open publishing practices from which others can learn.
This program led collaboration between libraries, funders, policymakers and others to ensure support for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) scholarly practices in disseminating knowledge, facilitating scientific discovery and underpinning research integrity.
The Advancing Open Scholarship program encompassed various initiatives, including advocacy work and projects designed to advance the open agenda through bodies of work with practical outcomes. The program built on CAUL’s earlier FAIR, Affordable, and Open Access to Knowledge program. It was succeeded by the Open Access Program (2023-2025).
The Open Access Program continues CAUL's contribution to discourse about transforming scholarly communication practice and infrastructure for scholarly communications. It 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.