Implementing the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines for data and code to support computational reproducibility within the New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Initiating open access licensing in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology to further promote ecological science and better align copyright with the intent of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

“…As well as allowing a flexibility in copyright ownership, there is also clearly a need to use a "situated openness" (Albornoz et al 2019) that empowers authors to choose the degree of openness in how their work should be shared and reused. This is consistent with the approach taken when developing data and code requirements for the New Zealand Journal of Ecology (Etherington et al 2022). The Creative Commons licensing framework (Creative Commons 2022) is a flexible open licensing system that is commonly used in scientific publishing (Gulley 2013) and can increase the immediate use of published research while also protecting authors within a strong legal framework (Tennant et al 2019) and is advocated by the New Zealand government (New Zealand Government 2014; Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment 2022).…”