Subject Guides: Kaupapa Māori Research: KM Publishing & OA

Publishing Open Education Resources (OER)

If you are looking to publish open education resources, the Library can help. This could be any openly available educational resource, from brochures and booklets to full textbooks. Kōrero mai e hoa mā!

UC Libray hosted journal

Te Tira: A Journal of Māori and Indigenous Leadership
Te Tira is an open access journal publishing primarily the works produced by students of the Master's of Māori and Indigenous Leadership (University of Canterbury, Aotearoa) degree. It has broad application to the field of Indigenous knowledges generally, including theorising about self-determination. The aim is to encourage high quality contributions from those students and to foster discussions among academics, policy-makers and community workers in the area of Indigenous leadership and Indigenous knowledges.
UC Journal Publishing Guide

Publishing a journal article & open access

Are you looking for an appropriate journal to publish your kaupapa Māori research? Some popular journals to publish in include MAI Journal and AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, which are both published by Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga. Wherever you choose to publish you should take a look at the journal descriptions and submission requirements before deciding which journal suits your needs. A good place to start looking for appropriate journals is in journals that have published research that is of similar kaupapa to your own. See our Strategic Publishing Guide for more tips.

Something to strongly consider when publishing an article is if you are publishing it open access. Publishing open access means the article will be freely available to all readers. This brings a considerable citation advantage, which often means increased visibility, usage and impact to your work. Journals often charge a fee for publishing open, and the Library has 'read and publish' agreements with many journals, including AlterNative, where we can automatically cover the cost of these fees. Some journals such as MAI don't have any costs associated with them, but it is common for journals to charge. The Library also has an Open Access Fund to help support the publishing of open access research - you can apply here.

For more information about publishing and open access you can see our Publish & Share Subject Guide or contact myself or your Subject Librarian.

Finding Kaupapa Māori research

Scopus
You can use the Scopus database to find journals that publish on your kaupapa. Do a keyword search for research articles on your kaupapa, and then filter the results on the left hand side to show which journals are publishing the research. If a journal has been indexed in Scopus it is likely we can help to cover the fees for publishing there.