Le 14 mai 2019, le Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) et l’Australian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) ont publié une déclaration commune en prévision des élections fédérales australiennes, intitulée « Developing a Strategic Approach to Open Scholarship in Australia ».
On May 14, 2019, the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) issued a joint statement in advance of the Australian federal election, “Developing a Strategic Approach to Open Scholarship in Australia.”
Les directives en examen du rendement, de promotion et de titularisation ont été critiqués par certains comme des obstacles institutionnels qui ralentissent la transition vers science ouverte (voir Le film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship et Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management. Le Project « Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) » analyse les documents liés provenant d’universités américaines et canadiennes afin de déterminer comment la publication en libre accès et à l’abonnement sont encouragés et en quoi l’incitation influe sur la science ouverte.
Review, promotion, and tenure guidelines have been criticized by some as impediments to a transition to open scholarship (see The Film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship and Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management). The Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Project analyzes RPT documents from universities in the US and Canada in order to determine how publishing in Open Access (OA) and closed-access venues are incentivized and how this incentivization affects open scholarship.
On April 17, 2019, the Government of British Columbia announced a $3.26 million investment in Open Educational Resources (OER) through BCcampus. The funding was announced at the Cascadia Open Education Summit held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre Campus. BCcampus is a provincially funded agency with a mandate to “provide teaching, learning, educational technology, and open education support to the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia” (“Our Mandate” n.d.).