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JOHN W. HOUGHTON
John.Houghton AT pobox.com
Research Activities.
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies.
Professor and Director of the Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program,
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.
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.
Measuring
the benefits of Research Data Infrastructure Services for the UK
Economic and Social Research Council | Costs and benefits of access to
Public Sector Information (PSI) for ANDS | Audiovisual Services for the
OECD | The costs and benefits of Open Access in Germany for the DfG |
The value of personal data and online privacy for the OECD | Access to
academic research by SMEs for FI and DEFF (Denmark) | Economic imapcts
of the US FRPAA for SPARC (USA) | ICT and the Environment 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)
| Statistical updates on Australia’s ICT Trade
for ACS | and more...
Knowledge Access / Open Access
(Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models)
Knowledge Access Project Page
with on-line models
Media Mentions
Times Higher Education
The
Economist
Times Higher Education (THES)
Some Recent Publications
Understanding the value
of Public Sector Information in Australia
A Lateral Economics
Submission to The Office of The Australian Information Commissioner
(OAIC)
Made with the support of Google Australia
Available at http://www.lateraleconomics.com.au/outputs/Response_to_OAIC_Issues_Paper_2%28Houghton&Gruen%29.pdf
Costs and Benefits of
Data Provison
Report to The Australian
National Data Service (ANDS)
Available at http://ands.org.au/resource/cost-benefit.html
'Audiovisual Services'
OECD (2011) Communications
Outlook 2011 (July 2011)
Available at http://www.oecd.org/sti/telecom/outlook
Access to Research and
Technical Information in Denmark
Forsknings- og
Innovationsstyrelsen and Denmark's Electronic Research Library
Available at http://www.fi.dk/publikationer/2011/adgang-til-forskningsresultater-og-teknisk-information-i-danmark
'Exploring the Economic Impacts of Open
Access to Publicly Funded Research'
Vice Chancellor's Seminar Series on Open Scholarship, University
of Queensland, Brisbane (May 2011)
http://ceit.uq.edu.au/content/vice-chancellors-seminar-series-open-scholarship-presents-economics-open-access-professor-jo
'The costs and benefits
of alternative publishing models'
Information Research, 16(1)
Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/16-1/paper469.html
'Economic Impacts of Open
Access in Europe and the United States'
University of Tromso, Norway, November 2010
Available
from UIT
(Video)
'Costs and Benefits of
Alternative Publishing Models: Lessons and Developments'
Berlin8 Conference, Beijing,
October 2010
Available
from Berlin8
(Video)
'Economic Impacts of Open
Access: Implications from studies in Europe and the US'
Deakin University, Melbourne,
October 2010
Available
from Deakin University
ICT and the Environment
in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Developments
WCC 2010, Brisbane, September
2010
Available
from Springer
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 scholarly publishing models: Lessons and
developments' in
Publishing in the networked world:
Transforming the Nature of Communication,
Eds. Turid Hedlund and Yasar Tonta. ISBN
978-952-232-086-5, pp.385-403
Available http://hdl.handle.net/10227/599
'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 Quarterly 19(3/4), March 2010
Available
from Liber Quarterly
'ICTs and the Environment
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 Environment
in Developing Countries: an Overview of Opportunities and Developments'
Communications &
Strategies 76(4) 2009,
pp.39-60.
ICT and the Environment
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
Outlook13(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 Scholarly 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 Noticeand 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
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