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JOHN W. HOUGHTON
John.Houghton@pobox.com

The Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program focuses on the economic and organisational impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), including information industry development and policy, the application of ICT across the economy and consequent structural change, emerging business models for information-based businesses, and statistical indicators of information industry and infrastructure development.

Current & Recent Projects.
ICT and the Evironment for OECD. | Costs and Benefits of Open Access for SURF (Netherlands) and DEFF (Denmark). | Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models for JISC (United Kingdom). | Economics of Scientific Publishing and Public Sector Information for OECD (France) and NAS (USA). | Globalisation and Trade in ICTs for OECD. |  Developing Benchmarks for the Digital Economy for DCBDE. | Statistical updates on Australia’s ICT Industries and Trade for ACS. | and more.

Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models
(EI-ASPM)
EI-ASPM Project Page with on-line models

Media Mentions
Times Higher Education
The Economist
Times Higher Education (THES)

Cited in JISC Open Access Anthology (June 2010)

Some Recent Publications

Economic and Social Returns on Investment in Open Archiving Publicly Funded Research Outputs
SPARC, Washington DC., August 2010 
Available from SPARC

'Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Authors' Response'
Prometheus 28(2), August 2010 
Available from Prometheus

'Costs and Benefits of Alternative Publishing Models: Lessons and Developments'
ELPub 2010, Helsinki, June 2010 
Available from scix.net

'Economic Impacts of Alternative Publishing Models: Lessons and Developments'
Third European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine, Leiden, May 2010 
Available from Leiden University Medical Centre

'The Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'
Prometheus 28(1), March 2010 
Available from Prometheus

'Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Self-Archiving and Repositories'
Liber Quartely 19(3/4), March 2010 
Available from Liber Quarterly

'ICTs and the Enivironment in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Developments'
ICTs for Development: Improving Policy Coherence, OECD, Paris, 2010, pp.149-175.
Available from OECD

Implications of Alternative Open Access Models
Berlin7 Open Access Conference, Paris (December 2009)
Paper - Webcast

'ICT and the Enivironment in Developing Countries: an Overview of Opportunities and Developments'
Communications & Strategies 76(4) 2009, pp.39-60.

ICT and the Enivironment in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Developments
Joint infoDev/OECD Workshop: Policy coherence in the application of ICT for development
Paris (September 2009)
Workshop - Paper - Webcast

Costs and Benefits of Alternative Publishing Models: Denmark
DEFF, Copenhagen (September 2009)
Available from KE

'Exploring the impacts of enhanced access to publicly funded research'
The socioeconomic effects of public sector information on digital networks:
Towards a better understanding of different access and reuse policies
Ed. Paul Uhlir, National Academies
National Academies Press, Washington DC (June 2009)
Available from The National Academies

Developments in Open Access: A research perspective on the economics and implications
Presentation to Information Futures, University of Melbourne (July 2009)
Available from UniMelb

What happens when a knowledge economy turns down?
Information Outlook 13(4), Special Libraries Association, Washington DC (June 2009)
Available from SLA

Open Access: What are the economic benefits?
A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark
Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Brussels (June 2009)
Available from KE

'Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Self-archiving and Repositories'
OAI6 CERN Workshop on Innovation in Schoalrly Publishing 2009, Geneva (June 2009)
Available from CERN

'Exploring the Costs and Benefits of Alternative Publishing Models'
ELPub Conference 2009, Milan (June 2009)
Available from ELPub

Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation
SURFfoudation, Utrecht (June 2009)
Available from SURF

'Open Access and the Researcher: Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'
JISC Conference 2009, Edinburgh (March 2009)
Available from JISC

'Estimating the Potential Impacts of Open Access to Research Findings'
Economic Analysis and Policy 39(1) (March 2009)
Available from EAP

'Economics of Scholarly Publishing, Alternative Publishing Models and the benefit/cost of Open Access'
Danmarks Forskningsbiblioteksforenings Vinterinternatmøde 2009, Klarskovgaard (January 2009)
Available from DFDF

Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models (EI-ASPM)
Report to the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (January 2009)
Release Notice and Available from JISC
[Mentioned in Times Higher Education (5 February 2009)]

'Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring Costs and Benefits'
Information Online 2009 (January 2009)
Available from ALIA

'Scholarly Communication Costs in Australian Higher Education'
Higher Education Management and Policy 20(3) (December 2008)
Available from OECD

'The IT Industry: Recent Developments and Outlook'
OECD Information Technology Outlook 2008 (December 2008)
Available from the OECD

'Globalisation of the ICT Sector'
OECD Information Technology Outlook 2008 (December 2008)
Available fro the OECD

'Alternative publishing models: Exploring the costs AND benefits'
Presentation at Berlin 6 (November 2008)
Available from Berlin 6

 'Alternative publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits' 
Presentation at the Open Access and Research Conference 2008, Brisbane (September 2008)
Available from OAK Law

'Uncovering the social and economic benefits of open access'
JISC Podcast (August 2008)
Available from JISC

'ICTs and the environment: A framework for analysis'
Workshop on ICTs and Environmental Challenges
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen (May 2008)
Available from OECD
Webcast at Danish Ministry

'Exploring the impacts of enhanced access to publicly funded research'
The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks: Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies
U.S National Committee for CODATA Board on International Scientific Organizations, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Paris (February 2008)
Available from OECD

'Emerging ICT Market Strategy: South Africa'
CSES & BMI-Techknowledge
Multimedia Victoria (December 2007)
Available from MMV

'Global Chains: Australia's challenge in the evolving global economy'
Competing from Australia
Committee for Economic Development of Australia (July 2007)
Available from CEDA

'Broadband and Internet Infrastructure'
OECD Communications Outlook 2007 (July 2007)
Available from OECD

'Communications in the Emerging BRICS Economies'
OECD Communications Outlook 2007 (July 2007)
Available from OECD

Australian ICT Trade Update 2007
Australian Computer Society & Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (March 2007)
Available from CSES & ACS

Online delivery of tourism services: Developments, issues and challenges
in eds. Pease, W., Rowe, M. and Cooper, M.
Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry,
Idea Group, Hershey, PA.

Innovation in ICT: A changing landscape
Telecommunications Journal of Australia 56(3/4), pp93-105, Spring/Summer 2006
Available from TSA

Global Chains: Australia's Challenge in the Evolving World Economy
Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Melbourne (November 2006)
Available from CEDA
See also
Connecting Global Chains
In Information Age, 15 February 2007

Exploring the Economic Impacts of Open Access: A Research Perspective
Keynote Presentation at JISC Conference "Moving Towards Open Access", Keble College, Oxford (September 2006)
PowerPoint Available from JISC

Research Communication Costs in Australia, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits
Report to the Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra (September 2006)
Report available from ANU | Executive Summary

'ICT Trade and Globalisation of the ICT Sector'
In OECD Information Technology Outlook 2006
OECD, Paris (September 2006)
Available from OECD

The Economic Impact of Enhanced Access to Research Findings
CSES Working Paper No.23, Victoria University, Melbourne (August 2006)
Available from CSES

Scholarly Communication Costs and Benefits: The Role of Repositories
Presentation at APSR event "The Successful Repository" Brisbane (July 2006)
PowerPoint Available from APSR

'The Global Knowledge Economy'
In Ed. Rao, J.N. Knowledge-Based Economy: An Introduction
ICFAI University Press, Hydrabad (August 2006)
Available from ICFAI Press

Research Practices & Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment
In Eds. Grewal, B.S. and Kumnick, M. Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy
Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne (May 2006)
Available from Melbourne University Publishing

Australian ICT Trade Update 2006
Australian Computer Society & Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Sydney & Melbourne (March 2006)
Available from CSES & ACS

Big Pipes: Connecting Western Australia to the Global Knowledge Economy
Western Australian Information and Communications Technology Forum, Perth, April 2006
GQ-AAS
Available from TIAC

The Australian Software Industry & Vertical Applications Markets:
Globally Competitive, Domestically Undervalued
(CIIER)
Department of Communications, Information Technology and The Arts, Canberra, April 2006
Available from DCITA

Changing Research Practices and Research Infrastructure Development
Higher Education Management and Policy 17(1), pp63-81, September 2005
Available from OECD

Digital Broadband Content: Scientific Publishing
Working Party on the Information Economy, OECD, Paris, September 2005
Press Release & Report Available from OECD
[Mentioned in The Economist (22 September 2005)]

Scholarly communication in a knowledge-based economy
ETD 2005: Evolution through discovery, Sydney, September 2005
Available from ADT (ETD 2005)

Electronics Industry Capability Mapping
Electronics Industry Action Agenda, AEEMA, Canberra, August 2005
Available from AEEMA

Internet and Broadband Infrastructure
Employment and Productivity
Trade in Communication Equipment
OECD Communications Outlook 2005, OECD, Paris (August 2005)
Available from OECD

Digital Delivery in Distribution & Logistics
Working Party on the Information Economy, OECD, Paris, May 2005
Available from OECD

Economics of Publishing and the Future of Scholarly Communication
In Eds. Gorman, G.E. & Rowland, F. (2004) International Year Book of Library and Information Management 2004-2005:
Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era, Facet Publishing, London, November 2004
Available from Facet Publishing

Publications & Project Reports
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Compiled by John Houghton (Last updated August 2010)

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