Tasman Declaration recommends OA mandates Participants in the Open Research conference (Auckland, February...

Tasman Declaration recommends OA mandatesParticipants in the Open Research conference (Auckland, February 6-7, 2013) have released the Tasman Declaration:"Publicly funded research should be openly available to maximise return on investments into research, and to increase participation in research and its translation beyond the traditional research sector. 'Open Research' is about removing barriers for society to benefit from research, by ensuring open access to and reuse of research papers, data, materials, metadata and code, and by developing the supporting practices and policies. In the absence of a good reason, research outputs should be made available with as few restrictions as possible and as soon as possible....Open research is more transparent, accessible, efficient and reproducible.... Recommendations: ...Policy Mandates [to] support and prioritise Open Research....Australian and New Zealand governments should build Open Research into research and innovation policy, particularly for the investment of public funds...."Here's the conference home page.nzauopenresearchPS: My impression is that the declaration was just released. (Thanks to +Iryna Kuchma for posting it to the BOAI Forum.) But the declaration is undated. Can anyone nail down the official date of release?#oa #openaccess 

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