THE TUWHERA STORY: Tuwhera: 10 Years of Impact
Auckland University of Technology's innovative Tuwhera Open Access digital services of the institution's library Te Mātāpuna - the platform that publishes two of APMN's publications, Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) and Pacific Media - celebrated 10 years of open access last month.

To mark the celebration, Tuwhera launched a new 11 minute video telling "the Tuwhera story". Titled Tuwhera: 10 Years of Impact, it was created by  communication studies students director Archie Lee-Cooper and videographer Rij Rivera and featured many of the editors and teams that have published research journals on the platform. 
 

PJR was the first of two pioneering journals published at the platform -- now there are at least 20 being published.

Now PJR and Pacific Media are Diamond Journals.

APMN's Khairiah A Rahman and David Robie were at the celebration and launch in October 22, and David also features in an interview in the documentary.

Journal editors and the team behind the Tuwhera Open Access publishing platform talk about  a decade of research equity, and how they built a space where Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous-led research, and early career research can thrive.

"For a start, there were people who doubted that [the initiative] would work," says Luqman Hayes, AUT's research services manager.

"They didn't doubt it, they said, 'don't do it' - they just said, 'don't do it'.

"But it's not just the fact that we just said that we're going to do it anyway, it's the fact that we, through doing that, created a really unique opportunity for our post-graduate researchers."

Watch the Tuwhera: 10 Years Of Impact video.