By Luqman Hayes
Tuwhera, AUT's open access publishing platform that hosts Pacific Journalism Review, has been nominated as a finalist in this year's New Zealand Open Source Awards in the Education, Social Services and Youth category.
The nomination is acknowledgement of the hard work and innovation of the Library's Digital Services team in creating an attractive and accessible platform for sharing AUT's open research publications with a global audience.
Tuwhera started in 2016 with the initial objective of hosting online open access journals edited by our university's academic staff using Open Journal Systems.
Launching with two peer-reviewed titles, including the Scopus-ranked PJR, Tuwhera has grown significantly in a short time to include research summaries, monographs, conference proceedings and links to the open collections in the AUT's institutional research repository (formerly Scholarly Commons).
The peer reviewed collection now totals eight titles covering health, finance, law, education, journalism, psychotherapy and indigenous research. These include two entirely new journal publications alongside their more established stablemates, illustrating the way Tuwhera seeks to provide an incubator space for supporting emerging voices and unheard discourse.
A second PMC title, Pacific Journalism Monographs, is also included.
The multiple meanings and contexts of Tuwhera (open, or be open, or opening up) and of other Māori concepts have informed and shaped the team's work and its relationships. Tuwhera's kaupapa of openness is built upon an understanding that knowledge exists to be shared for the wider benefit of the communities it springs from.
Luqman Hayes and Donna Coventry will be attending the gala awards ceremony in Wellington on Tuesday 23 October.
Pacific Journalism Review on Tuwhera
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