OA week this year (24-27th October) has a few fascinating sessions provided by OA Australsia, including:

27 October
2-4pm NZDT
Creating space for Indigenous and Pacific research
Part 1: Publishing avenues for Indigenous-led research

How do Indigenous academics share their research in a way that is meaningful to them and the communities they wish to serve? A number of Indigenous-led open access journals have been set up with the purpose of exploring Indigenous and Pacific issues and concerns, providing an opportunity to disseminate research. This session will explore the driving force behind the development of these journals, and the challenges in getting Indigenous research out into the scholarly community.

Part 2: Engagement with indigenous knowledge

How do Indigenous communities share their knowledge in a way that aligns with their community rules and protocols? How can we ensure Indigenous knowledge is treated respectfully when it is in the public domain? This session will explore some of the recent initiatives seeking to tackle these questions.

Register here:  https://oaaustralasia.org/events/open-access-week-2023/

Link to article

The following is a long read, but well worth it (and I suspect should be read in a Scottish Accent, but I’m not 100% sure.)  It very articulately outlines the historical and economic context in which we work, and why that causes the inequity of access to information that frustrates us so much.  get a cup of tea, and take ten minutes to read:

http://stuartlawson.org/2017/07/against-capital/

Just attended this presentation at the CONZUL ereporting workshop, the author is interested in doing this study at a national level and would be interested to hear from anyone who might like to be involved in working together on this

Textbook cost and access and how they affect student study behaviours