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Curtin Library Publishing Newsletter, October 2026
November 4th, 2026, by
Open Scholarship Month - November
This November, the Library is running twelve 30-minute online sessions for Open Scholarship Month. They cover practical topics in open access publishing, open data, open educational resources and more. All Curtin staff and students are welcome, and you can attend as many or as few as suit your schedule.
What is open scholarship?
It’s the practice of making research outputs and teaching materials freely accessible, without legal, technical or financial barriers, so they have the greatest possible impact and benefit.
Why Open Scholarship matters now
Open practices are changing how research is published, shared and funded. Whether you’re meeting funder and institutional requirements, extending the reach of your work, or making learning materials more accessible to students, these sessions offer clear, practical guidance.
- Research: Learn how to make your publications and data openly available, and how Curtin’s repository, CURATE, can help you share and preserve your work.
- Teaching: Find out how open textbooks and teaching resources can make access to information more equitable for your students.
- Data: Explore how open data supports collaboration and the advancement of knowledge across disciplines.
- Global impact: Open access also matters beyond Curtin, as researchers at under-resourced institutions around the world depend on it to participate in scholarship.
Our librarians work with these issues every day and can help you navigate publishing options, copyright and licensing, repository deposit, and more. You’re welcome to attend as many or as few as suit your schedule.
All sessions are online and run for 30 minutes. Register by clicking on the session titles you are interested in.
Week 1: Open research (4-6 November)
Open access and open research: past and present
Wednesday 4 November, 11-11.30am
Open access is now a condition of much research funding, but it wasn’t always. Learn how the movement started, the roadblocks along the way and where it’s heading.
Open data 101: what is it and why would you do it?
Thursday 5 November, 10.30-11am
Open data can benefit you and your research, but it isn’t one-size-fits-all. Find out what open data is, how it could work for you and when it won’t.
Open educational resources: the next high impact practice
Friday 6 November, 10.30-11am
A recent AAC&U report identifies open educational resources (OERs) as a possible new high impact practice in tertiary education. Learn what OERs are and why interest in them as alternatives to traditional textbooks is growing.
Week 2: Open resources (10-12 November)
Adopt, adapt, overcome: incorporating open books into teaching materials
Tuesday 10 November, 1-1.30pm
Open textbooks often include interactive elements or break away from the classic textbook structure. Learn how to find them, use them as they are, or adapt and remix them for your unit readings.
Creative Commons licence explainer
Wednesday 11 November, 10-10.30am
What are Creative Commons licences, and how can they help you create or reuse teaching materials? Learn how to interpret the licence terms and choose the right one for your situation.
You don’t have to reinvent the dataset: finding and reusing open data
Thursday 12 November, 10.30-11am
Why start from scratch when someone may have already collected the data you need? We’ll show you where to find open datasets and how to judge whether they’re fit for reuse.
Week 3: Open publishing (17-20 November)
Using CURATE to make scholarly work accessible
Tuesday 17 November, 10-10.30am
Learn how to use Curtin’s repository, CURATE, to showcase and preserve your research outputs.
Copyright and open access: how they work together
Wednesday 18 November, 11-11.30am
New to copyright or open access? Start here. Learn the basics of both and how they relate to teaching and research.
Publishing open access: where do I start?
Friday 20 November, 10-10.30am
Want to publish your work openly but not sure where to begin? We’ll explain the open publishing options available to you and how the Library can support you.
Week 4: Open visibility (24-26 November)
Open access mythbusting
Tuesday 24 November, 10-10.30am
Get your open scholarship questions answered. Is everything on the internet open access? How prestigious are open access journals? Can you peer review an OER? Join us for a Q&A on all things open scholarship.
Curtin’s Open Scholarship Policy: a local strategy for global impact
Wednesday 25 November, 10-10.30am
Curtin is part of a global movement to safeguard authors’ rights, preserve scholarly work and make research publicly available. Learn how the Open Scholarship Policy helps make this happen.
The open access advantage: increasing citation diversity
Thursday 26 November, 10.30-11am
Want your research to reach a wider, more varied audience? This session unpacks a recent finding that open access outputs attract more diverse citations and shows how sharing your work openly can amplify its impact.
Open Access Publishing Agreements – update
Wiley’s fully open access journals will have reached their annual article limit (cap) under our Open Access Publishing Agreement by the end of October, and no further Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be covered.
Until January 2027, no further articles can be approved for publication in these journals. If you plan to submit to a fully open access Wiley journal, please check with the Library first.
Wiley’s hybrid journals are not affected, and our agreements remain in place. Hybrid journals let authors choose to make their article freely available to everyone (open access), and most of the journals in our agreements are hybrid. You can continue to publish open access in them as usual.
If you would like further information, please email Research Services.
Checklist reminder
If you want to use the Curtin Open Access Publishing agreements the following checklist will be helpful when you are considering submitting to a journal:
- Confirm the journal is included in the agreement through the Research Toolkit Journal Titles search.
- Ensure your article type is eligible – check the individual publisher list at the CAUL website - (Scroll down to Article Types section).
- Check for additional charges (e.g. page charges, colour charges).
- Check if there are any caps in place and if they are close to being exhausted (this information will appear in the Journal Titles search on the Research Toolkit).
- Ensure that your acceptance date falls within the agreement’s term.
Eligibility
When you submit your manuscript make sure that you comply with the following conditions:
- You must be the corresponding author
- You must be affiliated with Curtin University
- You must use your Curtin University email address
The Strategic Publishing Service @ Curtin Library
The Research Services team provides a Strategic Publishing service for academics, staff and students at Curtin University. We encourage you to contact us if you have any publishing enquiries.
As always, we wish you the best of luck with your publishing!
Contacts:
General enquiries: Library Research Services
Strategic publishing: Book a consultation
GRASP: Library Research Services
Institutional repository: CURATE team
Copyright: Book a consultation