The second Open Access Fund (OAF) committee meeting of 2017 was held on 9 June.

We discussed:

1. Actions from the previous meeting
2. The draft Terms of Reference
   • This document was tabled, discussed and accepted.
3. The size of the fund, and that we have requested it be increased for next year, because of the number and size of applications
4. Ways of publicising the fund better. We noted that currently the fund is publicised through the R&I newsletter, the Postgraduate Office newsletter and the PGSA email group. Suggestions included:
   • Promoting in college and school newsletters
   • Educating staff about OA and the fund by conducting a session in HR’s Personal Development offerings
   • Including a question in the Academic Promotions form Research section about whether the academic has published in OA journals
   • We should produce an end of year report about the fund, linking it to PBRF measures etc.

We made decisions:

We funded three out of three applications, one fully and two partially:

1. Amount requested: NZ$1,575; Amount funded: NZ$1,575.
2. Amount requested: NZ$2,000; Amount funded: NZ$1,500 (3/4).
3. Amount requested: NZ$2,700; Amount funded: NZ$1,800 (2/3)