Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Start Date
4-6-2026 3:00 PM
End Date
4-6-2026 3:30 PM
Description
Tucked away, far from the conference circuit, is a part of the world which doesn’t tend to make the headlines when it comes to open access initiatives. New Zealand and by extension, the South Pacific, is a region struggling with a history of colonisation and trying to make systematic change around decolonisation - open access to research about ‘our place in the world’ is vitally important.
Ten years ago Auckland University of Technology’s library (Te Mātāpuna) made the decision to start hosting Diamond open access journals. Starting with two established journals, the service was named Tuwhera which can be translated to mean ‘be open’ in Te Reo Māori, the Indigenous language of Aotearoa (New Zealand). The service grew and now Tuwhera is the name for the umbrella of open access services hosted by the library, including the institutional repository, data repository and other open publications including 21 peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, eBooks and Open Educational Resources on Pressbooks.
How has this library hosted service grown from two journals to becoming a hub of bibliodiversity in New Zealand? In New Zealand, the term kaupapa means philosophy and values. The Tuwhera team has a kaupapa of equity and inclusion. We believe knowledge exists for the benefit of the communities from which it comes. The library welcomes publications from traditional, double anonymous peer reviewed publications through to publications targeting practitioners and students.
The overall motive for Tuwhera editors is the concept of openness and that quality research is available to those who need to access it. Editors have found that large publishers do not extensively publish work related to their communities so their journal is created to provide a forum for authors to publish research important to our people.
Tuwhera is a shining example of a commitment to a service which supports equitable and inclusive open research - ten years on and still growing.
Included in
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons
Ten Years of Tuwhera: A Commitment to Sustaining Open Access Publishing
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Tucked away, far from the conference circuit, is a part of the world which doesn’t tend to make the headlines when it comes to open access initiatives. New Zealand and by extension, the South Pacific, is a region struggling with a history of colonisation and trying to make systematic change around decolonisation - open access to research about ‘our place in the world’ is vitally important.
Ten years ago Auckland University of Technology’s library (Te Mātāpuna) made the decision to start hosting Diamond open access journals. Starting with two established journals, the service was named Tuwhera which can be translated to mean ‘be open’ in Te Reo Māori, the Indigenous language of Aotearoa (New Zealand). The service grew and now Tuwhera is the name for the umbrella of open access services hosted by the library, including the institutional repository, data repository and other open publications including 21 peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, eBooks and Open Educational Resources on Pressbooks.
How has this library hosted service grown from two journals to becoming a hub of bibliodiversity in New Zealand? In New Zealand, the term kaupapa means philosophy and values. The Tuwhera team has a kaupapa of equity and inclusion. We believe knowledge exists for the benefit of the communities from which it comes. The library welcomes publications from traditional, double anonymous peer reviewed publications through to publications targeting practitioners and students.
The overall motive for Tuwhera editors is the concept of openness and that quality research is available to those who need to access it. Editors have found that large publishers do not extensively publish work related to their communities so their journal is created to provide a forum for authors to publish research important to our people.
Tuwhera is a shining example of a commitment to a service which supports equitable and inclusive open research - ten years on and still growing.