In making this submission, we hope to assist The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in developing a methodology for valuing Public Sector Information (PSI) and to contribute to the current draft and design of proposed subsequent agency and user survey questionnaires. To that end, we extend the literature survey presented in The OAIC's...

The study was undertaken by Professor John Houghton, a prominent economist and researcher in the 'open access' field. What characterises this report as being different from some previous efforts, is that it is focused on the costs and benefits to the organisation, the users and the wider benefits to the economy, separately, and collectively.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provided support for this feasibility study, which outlines one possible approach to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) on returns to public investment in R&D. The aim is to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model developments...

The aim of this project was to examine the costs and benefits of three alternative models for scholarly publishing - subscription publishing, open access publishing and self-archiving. The project involved two major phases: • Phase I: Identification of costs and benefits – sought to describe the three models of scholarly publishing, identify all the dimensions...

Australian ICT Trade Update 2006 presents a detailed statistical update on Australia's information and communication technology (ICT) trade over the decade 1995 to 2005. John W. Houghton explores the composition and direction of ICT equipment, software, content and services trade, and discusses the ICT trade deficit. He also examines ICT trade State-by-State.