(Oct 2022) 2022 marks the fourth year that a project team, commissioned by CONZUL, has gathered data on the state of Open Access (OA) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The OA landscape has experienced dramatic changes since the project’s inception. In previous years, the team’s approach was to examine OA data related to publications with…
(17 Dec 2021) CONZUL (The Council of New Zealand University Libraries) has recently announced its strategic priorities for 2022-2025. Read more about the strategy here.
(Oct 2021) The Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) has released its State of open access in Aotearoa Year 3 report. Here’s the scope of the study: “This is the third iteration of our work, meaning we can start to analyse trends over time. Our dataset comprises publications from 2017 – 2019 with…
(25 Oct 2019) Work carried out this year by New Zealand’s Council of New Zealand University Libraries (CONZUL) Open Access Project Group shows a clear citation advantage for repository based OA over closed access articles. This great infographic summarizes their research. The full report is available here. Furthermore, CONZUL have updated their statement on open…
(28 November 2018) In 2018, the majority (six out of eight) of New Zealand academic libraries undertook the Ithaka S+R faculty survey in order to explore and deepen understanding of scholars’ research and teaching practices and needs. The project was initiated by the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) with the Ithaka S+R instrument…