The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) has issued a statement on open scholarship. CAUL has also established COSI (CAUL Open Scholarship Initiative).
Here's an excerpt:
CAUL and its members seek to facilitate Open Scholarship by:
- Collaborating with researchers, research institutions and publishers to raise awareness of the principles, practice and benefits of open access publishing.
- Working with researchers and others to enable appropriate open access to both their published works and their primary research data.
- Advocating and implementing policies to ensure fair use of copyrighted information for educational and research purposes.
- Cooperating with the Australian Government to improve access to scholarly information through maximising the amount of information in the public domain or otherwise available without economic restriction through open access to publicly funded research findings and data.
- Developing infrastructure components, including institutional repositories, that will facilitate open access to scholarly information
