About Us

What is the New Zealand Open Research Network?

The New Zealand Open Research Network (NZORN) is a collection of researchers and research-associated workers in New Zealand. It aims to facilitate the growth of open practices by bringing together independently motivated and like-minded people, and providing a platform for the sharing of resources.


NZORN is inspired by the Open Science Community Utrecht and the Melbourne Open Research Network. We are one of a number of location-specific open sciences communities across Oceania that were initiated in October-November 2018.

What is Open Research?

Open research is a term describing a variety of practices directed at maximising the transparency of research, and ultimately leading to maximisation of public goods. These include: Open access publication, open data, open methodology, open source software, open educational resources & open peer review.

Interim co-ordinator

team-member

Matt Williams

Interim Co-ordinator

Matt is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University. He is eager to share responsibility for this with other like minded radicals. NZOpenRes does not yet have a formal leadership structure, but this is something that may come with time.

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Follow our Twitter account, sign up to our Google Group, or join us and our Aussie compatriots in the Australia/New Zealand slack workspace by filling out this survey.

NZORN is an inclusive and welcoming community by design. To preserve this, NZORN activities are subject to our Code of Conduct (see the Code of Conduct tab above).

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