Our principle
Open access to research supports better clinical care, education and public benefit. All ANZCA-funded outputs should be openly accessible.
How will this be achieved?
- By providing unrestricted access to medical literature to all fellows and trainees through the ANZCA library by harnessing more open access deals with publishers.
- By encouraging ANZCA and FPM researchers to use open access benefits through other affiliations, such as universities and hospitals.
- By encouraging all ANZCA and FPM researchers to submit their research outputs into the ANZCA Institutional Research Repository (AIRR).
- By ensuring all ANZCA publications are available open access, for example: ANZCA Bulletin, Australasian Anaesthesia.
- By promoting our open access strategy and achievements through this page and associated resource guide.
Initiatives
- The ANZCA Library is transforming the way our journal subscriptions work by moving to an access model that supports open access publishing for ANZCA's researchers. The model provides:
- Waived article processing charges (APCs)
- Support for compliance with funder open access mandates
- Increased visibility and reach of ANZCA-affiliated research
- Research outputs funded by the ANZCA Foundation from the last five years will be entered into AIRR by the end of 2026.
- The ANZCA Bulletin and other publications continue to be available open access and indexed in key discovery databases.
Implementation
- The Read & Publish (R&P) deal with Springer Nature launched January 2025.
- The Read & Publish (R&P) deal with Taylor and Francis launced January 2026.
- The Read & Publish (R&P) deal with Wiley is expected to launch in early 2026.
- The Library team are in active discussion with LWW/Ovid and Elsevier to move those deals to an R&P footing.
- We are working with the Victorian Health Libraries Consortium (VHLC) and monitoring Council of Australasian University Libraries (CAUL) agreements to broaden access.
- We are encouraging all ANZCA and FPM researchers to deposit their outputs in the ANZCA Institutional Research Repository (AIRR) increasing visibility and accessibility.
Measuring success
We track progress through:
- Uptake of Read & Publish (R&P) deals
- The percentage of articles accessed via open access (OA)
- VHLC metrics measuring article impacts of articles via their R&P deals
- Usage statistics from AIRR
- Growth in open access publishing by ANZCA researchers