Julian Tonti-Filippini, Cameron Neylon, Kathryn Napier Research Impact Evaluation System COKI team member Julian Tonti-Filippini led the construction of a pilot Research Impact Evaluation System (RIES) demonstrating the feasibility of conducting an on-demand, ERA-like analysis for research-active institutions (locally and globally), using journal-level metadata from the Australian Research Council and article-level metadata from publicly

There is a lot of lip service paid to the idea of diversity in scholarly publishing and often diversity of language is used as an example.But while the groups that work actively in languages other than English have been making this point consistently and forcefully, it has had limited traction in the scholarly anglophone literature.

Tracking Global Open Access Today the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative is releasing a resource that has been in the works for a long time. The new Open Access dashboard provides information on the OA status of research outputs by country and by institution. It provides some surprises and reinforces some of what we know.

Tracking and Mitigating Climate Change - How open is the research? Bianca Kramer and Cameron Neylon v0.9 10 March 2022 Update – The linked dashboard now also contains the references from the 2021 WG1 Report on the Physical Sciences Basis. The original dashboard is still available. On Monday 28 February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the Working Group 2 contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report.

Charting the future of HE Higher Education institutions around the world have not only an opportunity, but also a responsibility to reconsider their mission, capacity and impact in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) Co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon provides an update on the value of COKI data, dashboards and analytical tools in providing new insights into university performance.

Nigeria recognised as a global OA leader Nigeria’s role as a global leader in open access has become more widely recognised as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, COKI-co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon has said.

Who decides what our brightest minds should be discovering? By Associate Professor Lucy Montgomery, COKI Project co-lead, Curtin University Amid an international debate over research sovereignty, question marks hang over the future direction of Australian research with new analysis showing that more Australian research articles acknowledge funding from China than Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council.

Around the world, respect for the work of university researchers appears to be on the rise.