MED_AOASGLaunch-PressRelease_20121022 | Australian Open Access Support Group

"A new voice for Australian open access celebrates Open Access Week 2012 The new Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) was launched this week to coincide with international Open Access Week 2012. Open Access makes the results of publicly funded research freely available on the web to the world. Open Access helps to increase the speed and visibility of research and improves community awareness of the results. AOASG aims to be a concerted and coordinated Australian voice in support of open access. The group will lobby government, have a media presence, and provide advice and support to both research funding agencies and research institutions on how to best implement open access policy, practices and supporting infrastructure. The AOASG is being founded by six Australian universities which already have an open access policy requiring published research outputs to be made available: the Australian National University, Charles Sturt University, Macquarie University, University of Newcastle, Queensland University of Technology and Victoria University ..."