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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · 1d

The team has been part of the
@oaaustralasia.bsky.social
OA Week 2025 planning committee oaaustralasia.org/open-access-..., specifically Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back! Sign up if you haven't already!

Open Access | Open Access Australasia

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · 8d

New issues of Hospitality Insights and Interstices are now out! ojs.aut.ac.nz/hospitality-... and interstices.ac.nz/index.php/In...
Explore AI, technology and robotics - the future of hospitality and then float way with On Water: The aqueous in architecture.
(No apology for the bad pun).

Hospitality Insights

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · 10d

Tuwhera's Interstices Journal has just published Issue 24: On Water, exploring the aqueous in architecture from atmospheric to subatomic scales. 🎉

Read the full issue here interstices.ac.nz/index.php/In...

#DiamondOA #OpenAccess

Interstices 24 | Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Aug 17

Hospitality students operating a cake stall right below the Tuwhera office - of course we couldn't resist!!!! Chocolate croissant, brownies, sponge cake, cookies and cinnamon buns!

Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Aug 7

Supporting the efforts of our fellow Green OA supporters in Australasia doi.org/10.1177/0340...! We feel a zombie-fest is in order here!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Tuwhera team helped plan this course so we highly recommend checking it out- especially the rights retention section that we were specifically involved in! 😁

Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · Aug 7

OA201 Course launched today for members 🚀
A new advanced coursed in #OpenScholarship
Many thanks to the OA201 Working Group for their generous support in the development of the new course
#OpenAccess #OA201
oaaustralasia.org/registration...

Registration for Open Access Australasia’s new online course is now open! | Open Access Australasia

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tuwhera felt privileged to be asked to write this piece about the importance of Diamond open access for DOAJ. I'd also like to emphasise how challenging it was to get a photo of all of us where somebody wasn't blinking!!!!!

DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · Jul 29

The value of @tuwhera.bsky.social an #OpenAccess platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa #ScholComms #DiamondOA
blog.doaj.org/2025/07/29/t...

The Tuwhera Team (left to right): Donna Coventry, Tui Gordon, Craig Murdoch, Luqman Hayes, Rudy bin Mahli and Thais Azevedo

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Tuwhera team are excited to be on the OA Australasia planning committee for this year's OA Week events. While this is not a great time of year for the Southern Hemisphere - it's a great theme and the committee is buzzing with ideas! #OAWeek

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 30

The latest issue of the NZ Journal of Teachers' Work has landed ojs.aut.ac.nz/teachers-wor... and has gone straight to DOAJ doaj.org/toc/1176-6662!
@doaj.bsky.social ‪@chteschers.bsky.social‬
A fantastic editorial looking at teachers' work in our changing policyscape!

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2025) | New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 27

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights

Image: Adobe Stock Image Scientific knowledge is a public good Science and scholarship are about sharing and advancing knowledge, and many open access policies have been diligently designed in orde…

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 25

The perfect theme to discuss 'Rights Retention' - very exciting!!!

SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Theme — International Open Access Week

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 24

We're very interested in today's "The "Bring out your dead" green Open Access competition" anything to help promote Green OA and added zombies is always fun!!!🧟

www.rscday.info/about/2025

Event - 2025

Introducing our keynote speakers for RSC Day 2025

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 24

Very excited by Research Support Community Days www.rscday.info/home, especially tomorrow with @luqmanhayes.bsky.social presenting: The time for action is now: Equity and sustainability for diamond publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand, 12.55 NZ time! It's free event so join in!

Event

A free, online, community event for research support professionals

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 13

and big thanks to COAR for hosting a meeting about this at Australasian friendly times!

Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · Jun 6

With open access conferences happening on the other side of the globe, we thought we'd celebrate OA in the lands down under with a link to the OA Toolkit for Aotearoa NZ Researchers. While only a basic tool, it's completely customisable for individual institutions oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers | Open Access Australasia

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 29

Great news today, The New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work team is very proud to join the DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social family! Great to see a diamond access journal aimed at supporting our teachers get this boost in credibility! ojs.aut.ac.nz/teachers-work/

Teachers' Work

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 29

Tuwhera hosts Rangahau Aranga: AUT Graduate Review.
Rangahau Aranga means 'Emerging Research.' The current issue is a showcase of the 2024 postgraduate symposium abstracts ojs.aut.ac.nz/rangahau-ara.... A couple of items for those that like squid (not on the dinner table!)🦑

Rangahau Aranga: AUT Graduate Review

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 28

Congratulations Tom!

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 28

Even though some of the Tuwhera team have questionable singing ability - we also enjoy getting involved in lunchtime kapa haka. Toia Mai - as seen here is our favourite! youtu.be/aZS_B8ZtIEo?...

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 27

The Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning published their latest issue earlier this month - the proceedings of the Symposium of Technology Enhanced Learning ojs.aut.ac.nz/pjtel/. Covering teaching tools from AI through to 3D reconstruction, games and VR!

Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

PJTEL is an open access journal published by Tuwhera Auckland University of Technology. The PJTEL journal aims to promote informed use of technology in learning and teaching—the scholarship of technol...

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 25

Tuwhera also hosts conference proceedings, the latest being 31th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) abstracts. As we use OJS, we submit the DOIs manually so that the metadata is for a conference, not a journal! ojs.aut.ac.nz/iconip24/2

31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 22

Applied Finance Letters approaches publishing via a continuous publication model as to promptly publish submitted articles. Readers have immediate access to that research as opposed to waiting for a full issue to be ready. The first article of 2025 is now published ojs.aut.ac.nz/applied-fina... #oa

Vol. 14 (2025) | Applied Finance Letters

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 22

Ethnographic Edge Journal have just published a short issue with articles addressing possibilities for change in dominant systems. This journal embraces diversity in cultural perspectives, language, presentation and approaches and Tuwhera is proud to host it! ojs.aut.ac.nz/ethnographic...

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025): The Ethnographic Edge | Ethnographic Edge

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 20

#5 The Tuwhera team launched AUT Library's first two OERs. Physiotherapy Otherwise is openly available here oercollective.caul.edu.au/physiotherap..., The 6Ps of Creativity is currently under student review but will be open soon!!!

#openscholarship #OER

Physiotherapy Otherwise Workbook – Simple Book PublishingShare on XShare on LinkedInShare via Email

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Tuwhera Open Access @tuwhera.bsky.social · May 19

Update #4 Our second D Space 7 showcase is for the Tourism for All Research Group openrepository.aut.ac.nz/collections/... a collection of useful, evidence-based facts about accessible tourism in New Zealand. #accessibility #openaccess

DSpace

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