Seek the New Zealand solution to open access publishing

The three main routes for NZ to transition to open access are identified as author self-archiving, the article publication charge (APC) model, or transformative agreement. The preprint initiative can effectively complement the above three approaches by making early versions of journal papers publicly accessible. The author self-archiving model requires little extra cost and can make a huge difference to the accessibility of accepted manuscripts. US$2,000,000+ needs to be set aside by NZ funders to publish all papers via the APC route, based on a rough estimate. Council for New Zealand University Libraries (CONZUL) could seek to reach cost-neutral transformative agreements with publishers by re-purposing their current subscription expenditure. An explicit national-level open access policy is expected to be made by NZ government and funders. We need a NZ solution instead of simply replicating others