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Research
Activities.
Centre
for Strategic Economic Studies.
Professorial
Fellow, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies,
Victoria
University, Melbourne.
Information Technologies and the Information Economy Research 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
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Current
& Recent Projects.
Value
of the British Atmospheric Data Services for JISC (United Kingdom) |
Value of the Archaeological Data Service for JISC (United Kingdom) |
The Economic Case for Flexible Copyright Exceptions and Extended Safe
Harbour Provisions for the Australian Digital Alliance | Benefits of
Research Data Infrastructure Services for the UK Economic and Social
Research Council | Costs and benefits of access to Public Sector
Information 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 impacts 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
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Media
Mentions
Times
Higher Education (THES)
Times
Higher Education (THES)
The
Economist
Times
Higher Education (THES)
Cited in House of Lords S&T
Committee on Open Access
Cited in
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676
Using
ICT for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation through Agro-ecology
in the Developing World:
ICT for Sustainable Development, Zurich,
February 2013
With
Helena Grunfeld
Available
at http://www.ict4s.org/the-conference/detailed-program/
Planting
the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest:
Comments and Clarifications
on “Going for Gold”
D-Lib
Magazine 19(1/2)
With
Alma Swan
Available
at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/houghton/01houghton.html
General
cost analysis for scholarly communication in Germany
A
Report for The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DfG)by The Goethe
Universitat, Frankfurt
With
Berndt Dugall, Steffen Bernius, Julia Krönung, Wolfgang
König
Available
at
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27530
Excepting
the Future:
Internet
intermediary activities and the case for flexible copyright
exceptions and extended safe harbour provisions
A
Lateral Economics Report for The Australian Digital Alliance
(ADA)
With Nick Gruen
Available
at http://www.digital.org.au/content/LateralEconomicsReports
Exceptional
Industries:
The economic
contribution to Australia of industries relying on limitations and
exceptions to copyright
A
Lateral Economics Report for The Australian Digital Alliance
(ADA)
With Nick Gruen
Available
at http://www.digital.org.au/content/LateralEconomicsReports
Economic Evaluation
of Research Data Infrastructure (ESDS)
Report
to The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
With Neil
Beagrie, Anna Palaiologk and Peter Williams
Available
at
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/ESDS_Economic_Impact_Evaluation_tcm8-22229.pdf
Measuring the impacts
of Open Access to publicly funded research
Presentation
to the LIBER Conference, Tartu, Estonia, June 2012
Available
at http://uttv.ee/naita?id=12564
Transparency and
Productivity: Transparency Occasional Paper No 2 (ANZSOG)
Report
to The Australian and New Zealand School of Government
With Nick
Gruen
Available
at http://www.anzsog.edu.au/research/publications/other-publications
Going for Gold? The
Costs and Benefits Gold Open Access for UK research institutions:
Further economic modelling
Report
to The UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)
With Alma
Swan
Available
at http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/610/
Understanding the
value of Public Sector Information in Australia
A
Lateral Economics Submission to The Office of The Australian
Information Commissioner (OAIC)
With Nick Gruen
Available
at
http://www.lateraleconomics.com.au/outputs/Response_to_OAIC_Issues_Paper_2%28Houghton&Gruen%29.pdf
Exploring the impacts
of open access to publicly funded research
Presentation
to The Knowledge Exchange Conference, Hong Kong
Available
at http://www.keconference.hku.hk/speaker_daytwo.php
Cost
Analysis of Scholarly Communication in Germany
Economy
and Acceptance of Open Access Strategies Symposium, Frankfurt,
Germany.
Available
at
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23309
Costs and Benefits of
Data Provision
Report to
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Available
at http://ands.org.au/resource/cost-benefit.html
'Exploring the
Economic Impacts of Open Access to Publicly Funded
Research'
Presentation to
Scholarly Information Futures, Griffith University, Brisbane (July
2011)
http://www.griffith.edu.au/scholarly-information-futures/previous-events/john-houghton
'Broadcasting and
Audiovisual Content'
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
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
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