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2020 locks in shift to Openness – but Australia lags
2020 locks in shift to Openness – but Australia lags In October 2020, UNESCO made the case for open access to enhance research and information

Naked Scientist shines spotlight on COKI
Naked scientist shines spotlight on COKI COKI’s own Dr Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang was recently interviewed by The Naked Scientist, talking about open access publishing and

Award recognition for COKI team
Award recognition for COKI team Presentations by two COKI Project staff have been recognised with Delegates Choice awards at the 2020 eResearch Australasia Online Conference.

End to rankings?
End to rankings? Dr Karl Huang of the COKI Project at Curtin University discusses his recent paper on Open Access. To read the paper please

COKI’s Dr Karl attracts international attention
COKI’s Dr Karl attracts international attention Dr Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang (COKI team) presented COKI’s research findings at the 7:AM Altmetrics Conference on 21 Oct 2020.

New rankings system shows flaws in university league tables
New rankings system shows flaws in university league tables A new university rankings system based on one of the world’s most comprehensive databases of university

Nigeria recognised as a global OA leader
Nigeria recognised as a global OA leader Nigeria’s role as a global leader in open access has become more widely recognised as a result of

Initiative for Open Abstracts
COKI Project Co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon outlines why he is supporting a campaign calling for all abstracts to be made open access.

Bringing students on a voyage of discovery
Bringing students on a voyage of discovery As part of National Science Week (15-23 August 2020) Dr Rebecca Handcock gave a guest presentation to parents,

Who decides what our brightest minds should be discovering?
Who decides what our brightest minds should be discovering? By Associate Professor Lucy Montgomery, COKI Project co-lead, Curtin University Amid an international debate over research

New PhD Scholarship opportunities for COKI
Read more about three PhD opportunities with the cutting-edge COKI project at Curtin University.

COVID-19 presents opportunity to re-think diversity in Australian HE
As universities across Australia look to enrol more domestic students in 2021, trends indicate that female students are likely to dominate first year intakes across the country.

If a publication lands in the library and nobody is near, does it still make a noise?
The evolution of the internet has resulted in digitisation of many scholarly tomes, but also further obscured what we know about the influence of monographs.

Battle of the Benchmarks
Setting one benchmark for universities is hard.
Setting 27 benchmarks is a herculean task…

Fireside Chats at the Open Publishing Festival
Project co-lead Cameron Neylon writes about online festivals, celebrating success and the challenges of infrastructure.